<aside> 🌳 Crop templates are the primary tool for storing and sharing crop data in Overyield, helping you catalogue best practices while streamlining farm design.

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What are crop templates?

Crop templates are datasets containing all of the most important agronomic, operational, and economic information for a specific crop.

They contain not only crop data, but also all the associated materials, fuel, infrastructure and equipment costs associated with crop management.

Crop templates serve a few primary purposes— namely, disseminating best practices, streamlining farm design, and informing your economic projections.

• There are two major template types: Public Templates and Team Templates.

  How do crop templates work?

• During the design process, the act of assigning a crop template to a section or row automatically imports the crop template’s template’s data to your Farm Dataset, which is located under Economics → Farm Data.

• Once stored as Farm Data, template-provided data can be customized to fit your farm’s unique management context.

• This Farm Data also interacts with your design data to inform your Economic Projections, including yield forecasts and revenue projections.

  Put simply:

  Farm Design × (Crop Templates ± Customizations) = Economic Projections.

  To Assign a Crop Template to a Section:

  1. Select a Section via the Fields Menu.
  2. In the Design Panel on the right, expand the dropdown menu under Crops. Here you will see all available public and team templates for your growing zone.
  3. Select a template.
     • This template’s data will now appear under Economics → Farm Data → Crops.

Public templates

Public crop templates fall under the umbrella of Global Data.

The primary purpose of public templates is to disseminate practical, rigorously-vetted information about commercially viable agroforestry species. The data contained in these templates has been compiled by Propagate through R&D, field work, third-party verification, and other methods.

That being said, it is important to note that Propagate’s public templates contain built-in assumptions regarding scale and mechanization which may not align perfectly with your management context. For this reason, we recommend rightsizing public template data to fit your farm.

Though 50+ public crop templates are available in Overyield, you will only have access to those that are appropriate to your growing zone, which you can adjust under your Project Settings.

To view the public templates available within your context:

1. Navigate to your Design Page.
2. Select a section.
3. In your Design Panel, under the Crops heading, open the dropdown menu.
4. All relevant public templates will appear towards the bottom of the list.