No matter what you yield from your animals, Farmbrite can help you keep records to track their productivity. Whether you're collecting eggs from chickens, milk from cows or goats, or butchering livestock for meat, you can add yield records to your animal to track what you received from it. This can be accomplished on an individual animal record, a set group, or in bulk from multiple animals at once.
Recording Yield from an Individual Animal
To record a yield from an animal or set group, just select their record and choose Yield from the menu. You'll see a New Record button on that page to start recording your harvest.
A new window opens for you to supply information about the harvest. The only required field is amount, the rest are optional.
- Amount Harvested - How much did you yield for this record?
- Date Harvested - When did the yield happen?
- Batch Number - A reportable field that you can use to identify this yield; you must supply a an identifying number.
- Trace Number - This number will be automatically generated for each yield. You can supply your own if you'd like. This is used for traceability
- Grade/Size - Add a grade or size to classify your harvest and report on it later.
- Estimated Revenue - How much do you think this yield is worth per unit? This can help you project profitability from it.
- Reduce Livestock Set Count - If you are yielding from a set where you are butchering whole animals like broilers, you can optionally choose reduce the number of animals in the set by your yield amount.
- Notes - Add any notes about the yield.
- Custom Fields - You might not see any here yet, but if you have additional information to track about your unique harvests, you can add custom fields to store that data with the yield record.
Once you have added these details, you can then either Save, or Save and Add to Inventory. You can always save the yield record now and then add the yield to your inventory later if you'd like.
Adding Yield to Inventory
If you have not yet set up your inventory items and warehouses, check out this Getting Started article for more info. Whether you choose to do this immediately after adding the yield or later, you'll be able to add your yield to your Farmbrite inventory. This adds the yield from your animal to a warehouse storage location, and helps you keep track of it to use or to sell.
The Add to Inventory window asks for the following information.
- Inventory Item - Choose what item the yield should be stored in.
- Add Amount - How much are you adding? Note that if it is not the full harvested amount, Farmbrite will calculate the difference as a loss. This can help you account for stalks/branches or trimmed meat that won't be usable, or rotted and spoiled yield that won't be sold.
- Date - When did you add this to the inventory? It might not be the same day as the harvest if you sent the animal for butchering offsite.
- Update Linked Product Amount Available - If you have this item connected to a market product, you can optionally add the yield to the amount you have available for sale in the shop. You might not check this box if the yield is already reserved, or being used around the farm for something else.
- Warehouse - Where should this item get stored? Optionally select a bin if needed as well.
- Source - The harvest will be prepopulated here, but make changes if you'd like.
- Reason - Why are you adding this to inventory? You can use this as a note if you'd like.
Save when you're done, and you'll see the additional reflected in your inventory item history.
Adding Yields for Multiple Animals at Once
You can accomplish a similar yield process in bulk by selecting multiple animals at once. This can be done from your main livestock dashboard, a smart or basic group, or from a grazing location. Just select the animals you'd like to yield from and then choose Add Yields from the Bulk Actions menu. This process is a bit more basic than the two steps on a individual record. You'll optionally select the inventory item and storage location in the upper right, and then add an amount and grade per animal. The prepopulated date is applied to all yields, and a trace number is still automatically generated too.
Quick Add Yields
Similar to yielding from an individual animal, if you'd prefer to add the yield from Quick Add, you can click the green plus sign in the upper right and select Animal Yield. The process is nearly the same as what you saw above, but you'll first search for the animal to associate the yield record with. This might be a great way to record the yield if you are using the mobile app.
Importing Yield Records
If you have many records to add, you can also import them for a specific animal. Perhaps you have tracked the egg yield from your chickens for the past week, and now want to add all of the records at once. Just click the actions button from the animal's yield page, and choose import records. You can find more information about imports here.
