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Public & Team Crop Templates are the primary tools for storing & sharing data in OY, helping catalogue best practices & expedite 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 growing zone:

  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.

Note: You may adjust your growing zone to access a wider range of templates.

Team templates

Classified as Team Data, team crop templates allow teammates to share and collaboratively edit crop datasets, which they can employ in their designs to streamline crop planning. Team templates allow users to communicate team-wide recommendations for specific crops, including agronomic and operational best practices and context-specific data.

Accessible via the Homescreen, under the Teams Menu → Crop Templates, Team templates can either be A) built from scratch or B) based on an existing public crop template.

A. Creating Team Templates from scratch:

  1. Navigate to the Homescreen.

  2. Under the Teams Menu, click Crop Templates then New Template +.

  3. Within the new template, fill in your initial Crop Settings:

    • Name

      • Template Name may include the crop name, as well as any other important identifying information distinguishing it from other templates (e.g. variety name, region, organic vs. conventional, market, etc.)

    • Growing Zones

      • Select the growing zones where this species can grow successfully.

        • The template will only be visible to projects in corresponding growing zones.

    • Between Row Spacing & In Row Spacing

      • Spacing parameters determine the relative positioning of plants within a Section.

    • Unit Cost

      • Unit Cost refers to nursery cost on a per plant basis.

    • Mortality

      • Mortality refers to the % of trees you expect to lose and subsequently re-plant after the first establishment year.

        • If you do not plan to replant trees, you can create a tree Loss Event instead.

    • Mortality Escalator

      • Mortality Escalator refers to the % increase in the cost of re-planting dead trees.

        • These costs will only apply to Operations categorized under the "Planting" group.

    • Target Yield per Tree

      • Target yield refers to the desired level of crop production based on factors such as variety selection, local growing conditions, and historical yield data.

    • Percent Target Yield per Year

      • These percentages, set for years 1-30, may reflect the gradual yield increases that occur as a crop matures, as well as any natural year-to-year fluctuations that may occur for a particular species.

  4. Click Save. From here, you will be redirected to your list of team templates, with your new template added at the bottom.

  5. Click on the new template to view its details and enter any relevant Operations, Revenue, Loss Events, and Carbon data.

B. Creating Team templates based on Public Templates:

  1. On the Design Page, select a Section via the Fields menu.

  2. Assign a public template to a Section or Row under crops.

  3. Navigate to Economics → Farm Data → Crop Templates.

  4. Click the [Template Name] whose data you would like to copy.

  5. In the righthand corner, select Template Actions, then click Create Team Template in the dropdown.

  6. You will automatically be directed to your new team template, titled “Template Name” and located on the Homepage, within your Teams Dataset.

  7. Edit this new template to your team’s specifications and use in any team project.

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