Crop rotation planning
A multi-year planner that knows about your past chemical applications, last season's pest pressure, and your seed inventory.
The matrix view
Rows are your fields. Columns are season-years. Tap a cell to assign a planned crop (and variety, if you know it). Mark plans as proposed, committed, planted, or cancelled. The same matrix shows your rotation history — the corn-soy-wheat-clover pattern you've been running for the last decade is right there alongside next year's plan.
Smart suggestions
Click an empty cell and the planner offers suggestions based on history: "Field 3 had corn for the last two years — soybeans are a good rotation partner." Suggestions are informational. The decision is yours. Every suggestion shows its reasoning so you can argue with it.
Restriction warnings
When you assign a crop, Headland checks for known rotation restrictions:
- Herbicide carryover (e.g., atrazine on Field 4 within the last 12 months → warning if you assign sugarbeets next season)
- Same-host pest cycle (e.g., elevated corn-rootworm pressure → suggest a break crop)
- Allelopathic conflicts
Cover crops are first-class
Cover crops aren't a side note — they're rotation entries. Plan a fall-planted cover crop into the same season-year as your cash crop. Termination events (chemical, rolling, mowing, tillage, winter-kill) are captured and feed back into the next year's plan, including an estimated N credit for legume covers.
Seed-need projection
Once you've committed a rotation plan, the planner projects how much seed you'll need to buy. It compares against your current inventory and surfaces a "buy" delta. One tap opens a seed-order form pre-filled with the right crop, variety, and quantity.
Scenario modeling (Business)
Play with alternatives. Create a draft scenario ("what if I went all-corn next year?") and see projected seed cost, expected nutrient need, and expected revenue at this year's prices. Multiple scenarios per farm; commit one and the rest archive automatically.