Farm

A farm grows crops, keeps animals, or both, and sells what it raises. Kila runs it as a production business shaped for the farm: its branches are farms, its fields and herds are cost centres, and its home page shows the farm’s day rather than the plant’s lines.

What is special

• Fields, herds and milk is in the Make menu: “Seasons, inputs and harvests by field; animals by tag with their treatments and withdrawal periods; milk by milking.” The farm manager and the herdsmen open on it.
• Milk cow by cow. Each milking is recorded by ear tag, and the milk of a cow in her withdrawal period is withheld: see Record a milking.
• Fields and herds as cost centres. Inputs from the store or bought in are kept against each field or herd: see Follow a field or herd’s costs.
• The home page has Farm today: milk, withdrawals and seasons, and leaves out the plant’s cards for the lines, intake, QA, the shift log, the handover and finished goods cover.

Kinangop Dairy Farm, a dairy and potato farm in North Kinangop, runs this way in the demo.

How Kila sets it up

The main screen is Production orders.

Rules it follows:

None. Kila's standard rules apply.

Its words:

Most businesses	Farm
branch	farm

Its set-up steps

1. Business details and KRA PIN
2. Sites and stores
3. Fields, herds and houses
4. Licences and permits (KEBS, county, DOSHS)
5. Materials, packaging and finished products
6. Recipes or parts lists with yields
7. Suppliers
8. First production order

Its home page

• Yesterday at the plant
• Production orders today
• Farm today: milk, withdrawals and seasons
• Output against plan; yield and scrap
• Materials short for planned orders
• Cost per unit against standard
• Machines: maintenance due and breakdowns
• Checks and logs today
• Orders to make and dispatch
• Payments waiting for confirmation
• Approvals and reviews waiting
• Licences, permits and returns due

Roles it starts with

• Production supervisor: Runs production orders at their farm: plans, issues materials, records output, scrap and downtime on the shift log, completes checks and closes orders. No costs or recipes.
• QA officer: Quality checks, holds and releases, recalls, the HACCP plan and its records, audits and issues, and tracing batches. No costs.
• Operator: Works on the line: records output, scrap and downtime on the shift log, in-process checks and their checklists. No costs.
• Plant manager: Runs production across the farms: plans and orders, recipes and their approval, costs and variances, machines and maintenance, quality and the shift log.
• Storekeeper (materials): Receives, stores and counts materials and packaging, and issues them to production orders. No planning, output or costs.
• Maintenance technician: Machines and their maintenance: plans, work orders, spares used and downtime. No stock or costs beyond spares.
• Farm manager: Runs the farm: fields and seasons, herds and animals, treatments and withdrawal periods, milk, inputs and harvests.
• Herdsman: Records milk, births, services and treatments of the animals. No costs or stock.

Where to go next

• Production: how Kila works for farms and factories.
• Farm manager and Herdsman: who does what on a farm.