Where a crop has failed, the failed crop wizard will help you to correctly record the crop failure and set up any following crops.
The failed crop wizard is accessed from the details tab of a field:
Once launched, it will take you through a series of questions to determine how the field should be set up to reflect the failure.
If a whole crop fails, then the original crop will be marked as failed, and a second sequence will be added for the following crop. If you do not plant a second crop, a second sequence of fallow will be created.
If only part of a crop fails, then the original crop will be split to show the failed area and the remaining viable crop. A second sequence will then be added for the failed area, which may either have a new crop associated to it, or left as fallow.
When a crop is split due to failure, all jobs that were applied to the whole crop before it was split will be proportionally shared between the two splits based on job area.
Example 1 – whole crop failure
A crop of winter oilseed rape completely fails, so is written off and will be replaced by a spring barley.
The oilseed rape is marked as failed with a strike through, and a second sequence is added for the spring barley.
Example 2 – partial crop failure
A crop of winter oilseed rape loses 2ha to flooding. That area is written off, but the remainder of the oilseed rape persists. The 2ha that has been flooded will not be replanted in this season.
The original crop of 12ha is reduced to the 10ha of surviving crop in part A. The 2ha that is flooded is marked as a failed crop (field part A-1, sequence 1) and a second sequence is added for the fallowing of this area until the end of the season.
The suffixes added to the split field parts can be changed if required (for example, to have part fields A and B).