Add a farm and set its location

Add the farm

1. Sign in and open My Farms from the dashboard menu.
2. Choose Add farm. On a new account the button reads Add your first farm.
3. Type a Farm Name. It is required.
4. Type the Location: the nearest city or town. It is required. Populated places and municipalities are matched; rivers, lakes and parks with the same name are skipped.
5. Choose the Province. It is required, and it narrows the place search.
6. Optionally type the Farm Size. It is entered in acres or hectares, whichever is set under Settings → Units, and the form shows the converted figure underneath.
7. Optionally add a Soil type (suggestions such as black chernozem or clay loam are offered, or type your own) and Primary Crops, separated by commas.
8. Choose Add Farm. If the town cannot be found, nothing is saved and the form asks you to check the spelling or enter the nearest town.

If you checked a town with the farm check on the homepage and then followed its sign-up link, the first Add farm form opens with that town and province filled in. Check them before you save.

Check where the weather point sits

The weather point is the coordinate of the town you entered, not your yard site or a particular field. Forecasts, spray windows and alerts are all calculated for that one point.

• Open Farm Map. Each pin marks a farm's stored weather coordinates.
• Open Weather. The forecast panel shows the farm name with its coordinates to two decimal places.
• There is no way to drag the pin or type coordinates. To move it, edit the farm and change the Location. The farm is looked up again; if no match is found, your changes are not saved and the old point is kept.

Times are in the farm's local time

Forecast times and dates use the time zone offset the weather provider reports for the farm's coordinates. A farm in Saskatchewan shows Saskatchewan time even when you sign in from another province or another country.

More than one farm

• Repeat Add farm for each farm. My Farms shows how many farms you have and their total size.
• On Weather, a Showing weather for menu appears once the account has more than one farm.
• Each farm gets its own forecast and its own alerts.

Acreage and plan limits

The Farm Size of every farm on the account is added together and checked against the plan: Starter covers up to 100 acres, Growing up to 500 acres, and Advanced has no acreage cap. A farm that would take the total over the limit is not saved, and the message names the limit. An edit that does not increase the total is always allowed. Field acres do not count towards the limit; only farm sizes do. See plans and pricing.

Edit or delete a farm

• On a farm card in My Farms, the pencil icon (Edit farm) reopens the form with the farm's details.
• The bin icon (Delete farm) asks for confirmation. Deleting a farm removes it with its alerts, its fields and every field record. It cannot be undone, so export your data first if you may need it.

Limits

• The location resolves to a town, not to a legal land description, a GPS point or your fields. Conditions in your fields can differ from the forecast for that point.
• You cannot drag the pin or enter coordinates.
• Weather and alerts are calculated per farm, not for each field.
• The place search covers Canada only.