IRC logs for #farmOS, 2022-10-30 (GMT)

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[13:26:04]<lordeddi[m]>I don't know what "crop" stands for. Could someone give some examples? please
[13:30:22]<symbioquine[m]>"Potato: Satina"
[13:31:24]<symbioquine[m]>Or just "Potatoes", "Soy beans", "Rye"
[13:32:10]<symbioquine[m]>You can make it specific or general as suites your growing operation.
[13:34:01]<lordeddi[m]>Thanks!
[13:34:01]<lordeddi[m]>So its more a thing of "when we harvest the tractor brings in a load of potatoes" wether its red, yellow, cultivarX... its potatoes. That?
[13:34:41]<lordeddi[m]>So a field used for orchard could have multiple crops
[13:35:27]<lordeddi[m]>Wood, fruits/nuts, cuttings, leaves (for tea) all from the se tree species
[13:35:48]<lordeddi[m]>E.g. olive would do that
[13:36:29]<lordeddi[m]>s/se/same/
[13:37:58]<lordeddi[m]>Not sure why or if i need crops at this moment. But they keep cropping up 😄
[13:41:02]<symbioquine[m]>Hmmm, interesting! I tend to think of the crop as just being associated with the kind of germplasm associated with an asset (plant/seed), not the harvested yield so much.
[13:44:02]<lordeddi[m]>Gottit. Thats what i find when looking it up. I will think if i will use the crop feature for things like wood or leaves etc...
[13:45:41]<lordeddi[m]>I mostly work with trees. And considering i both plant new ones and have very old ones, it makes it very different from cows or vegetables
[13:46:37]<mstenta[m]>A "crop" in farmOS is a taxonomy term
[13:46:46]<mstenta[m]>As opposed to an asset
[13:47:32]<mstenta[m]>Eg: a plant asset references the type of crop it is from the list of crop terms
[13:47:56]<symbioquine[m]>I would recommended using it to keep track of the variety of the trees.
[13:48:06]<mstenta[m]>Its confusing, I agree... somewhat of an old legacy naming decision that was hard to change 😅
[13:48:27]<mstenta[m]>We actually call it "plant type" behind the scenes now
[13:48:40]<mstenta[m]>But still refer to it in the UI as Crop/variety
[13:48:51]<symbioquine[m]>E.g. "olive", " apple", "filbert"
[13:49:19]<mstenta[m]>You can organize a hierarchy of crops/varieties depending on what you grow, and reference them on multiple plant assets
[13:50:31]<mstenta[m]>Eg: assets: 2022 Russet Potatoes and 2023 Russet Potatoes would both have "Russet Potatoes" as their crop
[13:50:32]<symbioquine[m]>symbioquine[m]: Or more specific, like "Apple: cosmic crisp"
[13:50:32]<mstenta[m]>A way of "tagging" assets essentially
[13:50:41]<mstenta[m]>For sorting/filtering across yeara
[13:50:46]<mstenta[m]>s/yeara/years/
[13:51:55]<lordeddi[m]>Nice, thanks. I'll let it compost some more in my brain. I understand it better now.