Your crew texts it once. It’s on the books.
I build the office side of row-crop farms: crew hours, open work, repairs, and the records that get written down in one place and typed again in the next. It’s running on our own farm this harvest.
Not a plan. Our crew has been texting it since September 24.
It started with the job that ate the most evenings: hours. Now the crew on our farm texts their hours and what they spent out of pocket, and it comes out with the pay already figured. Here are the rules it runs by.
Nothing saves without a tap.
A text gets read and laid out as a card. Nothing goes on the books until the person who sent it taps Save.
The clock does the math.
When somebody texts a start and stop time, the hours are worked out from the times in code, not guessed, and shown before Save.
Nothing gets deleted.
A correction replaces an entry, and the old one stays on file marked replaced, so you can always see what changed.
Every miss gets looked at.
It still misreads some texts. Every morning the day before’s texts get reviewed, and each miss goes on the fix list.
A short look, on a made-up demo farm.
The demo farm is invented so nobody’s real records end up on the internet. The software is the same one running on our farm.
Every screen is the real Foreman app on the Lindahl demo farm. The phone is recreated from the replies Foreman actually sent. Music: “Redwood Trail” by Jason Shaw (Audionautix.com), CC BY 3.0. Map imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.
First, a written map of your office.
Before anybody builds anything, I spend about three hours at your place and write down how work actually moves through your office. Within 14 days you get three documents.
How work moves
Where each number starts, who writes it down, and every place it gets copied after that.
What gets typed twice
Every number that gets typed more than once, how much time that takes, and what it costs you in dollars.
What to fix first
What to fix first, second and third, and what to leave alone because it isn’t worth the money.
See the full details and an example map → (a made-up farm, so you can see the format)
A free call
30 minutes on the phone. You tell me how your operation runs and what’s eating your time, and we see whether the visit is worth it for you. If it isn’t, I’ll tell you that.
The visit, and your map
About three hours at your place. The map is in your hands within two weeks, then we go through it together on a 30-minute call.
I build it on your records
Your crew, your records, the way you actually run, in a database that’s yours alone and not pooled with anyone else’s.
This winter I’m taking on five row-crop farms of 2,000 acres and up, before planting.
Everything labeled: what’s running, what’s built, and what isn’t yet.
Every farm office is different, so every build is scoped for your place. Every build starts from the same core, and what’s specific to your farm goes on top. Here’s what exists today, sorted by how far along it is. Pick what you care about.
Used for real on our own farm this harvest.
Built and working, waiting for a farm that needs it.
Built in a paid pilot for another operation. Described in general terms, because that work is theirs.
What I’d build for you, scoped and priced in writing during the visit.
Don’t see the thing that eats your evenings? That’s what the visit is for. Tell me what it is.
Pick your worst field. See it from space, season after season.
The Field Report is live now. Tap a field anywhere in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota or Indiana and it pulls the soils, elevation and satellite photos for that field, flags the spots that look like they hold water or run light, and gives you a planting file to check against what you already know.
Open the Field ReportIt’s built from public data: USDA soil survey, USGS elevation, Sentinel-2 satellite photos, NASA and NOAA rainfall, and USDA county yields.
It hasn’t seen your yield maps, your tile, your hybrids or your planter. It’s a starting point, not agronomic advice.
This came from the office chair it fixes.
I’m Daniel Knutson. I farm with my family near Meservey, Iowa: corn and soybeans, an organic rotation with alfalfa and oats, and cattle and goats. I know the pain firsthand. The data was there, the answers weren’t, and the evenings kept getting eaten in the office.
Before Foreman ran on our farm, I built a paid pilot for another row-crop operation. Now I build practical tools around the way a farm actually runs, not one-size-fits-all software.
Book a free call.
30 minutes on the phone. You tell me how your operation runs and what’s eating your time, and we see whether the $1,000 visit is worth it for you. If it isn’t, I’ll tell you that.
Rather send an email? daniel@foremanag.com
Not sure yet? Run the free Field Report on one field first.