Your role
Farm manager
You run the farm. Keep each field's seasons and inputs, each herd's animals and milk, and see what every field and herd has cost.
Kila describes the farm manager as running “the branch: fields and seasons, herds and animals, treatments and withdrawal periods, milk, inputs and harvests.”
When you sign in
Link to this section: When you sign inKila opens Fields, herds and milk on Fields and seasons: “Seasons, inputs and harvests by field; animals by tag with their treatments and withdrawal periods; milk by milking.” Each season shows its field, crop and area, its inputs, what was harvested, the yield and when it may be harvested. Field, herd or house and Season add new ones.
Your day
Link to this section: Your day- Check the morning’s milk. The home page’s Farm today: milk, withdrawals and seasons shows the litres so far, the milk withheld and the cows in their withdrawal periods. The milk is recorded cow by cow: Record a milking.
- Record what went into the fields and herds. Inputs to a season, such as a spray or a day’s weeding, and inputs to a herd, such as feed or the vet: Follow a field or herd’s costs.
- Keep the animals. On Animals, each animal by its tag, with its herd and any withdrawal period; Register an animal adds one.
- See what each costs. Cost centres on Production orders shows each field and herd’s inputs, production and sales.
What you can do
Link to this section: What you can do- Record fields, seasons and their inputs, the animals and the milk.
- Plan, issue and close production orders, and record inputs to cost centres.
- See production costs and reports.
Everything the role is allowed to do
- General
- View dashboard
- Catalog
- View products and services
- Stock
- View stock; Create stock adjustments
- Reports
- View reports
- Production
- Plan, reserve and cancel production orders; Issue materials to production orders; Record output, scrap and downtime on the shift log; Close production orders with what was made; See production costs, standard costs and cost variances; Record fields and seasons, animals, treatments and milk
What needs a manager
Link to this section: What needs a managerNo approval limits: anything that needs approval goes to someone else.
Needs a manager
- The production settings, such as the kinds of cost centre and whether inputs go into the next harvest, are the owner’s.
- Recipes. Adding a recipe for a product is for the owner or someone who keeps recipes.
Common questions
Link to this section: Common questionsWhy is a cow’s milk withheld? She is in her milk withdrawal period after a treatment. The Animals tab shows Milk to the day it ends.
Where do I record the vet’s visit? As an input to the herd, a cost with no stock item: see Follow a field or herd’s costs.
Why does a season say harvest from a date? It was sprayed, and the spray’s pre-harvest interval runs to that day.
- Herdsman: the parlour and the animals.
- Farm: how Kila is set up for a farm.
- Production