Know Your Farm Before the Day Starts.

You've been logging your revenue. Recording your expenses. Checking the forecast on a different app. None of it connected. All of it useful, somewhere, to someone, at some point.

Tod ay we're changing what you see when you open LiteFarm.

A new Insights section

The Insights section is now live. It's the first thing you'll see after logging in. Right now it has two tiles: weather and conditions, and profitability. More are coming. These two are the ones that earned their place in the first release.

Weather and conditions

Five days of forecast, built around your farm's location. Tap any day to see the hourly breakdown: precipitation, humidity, wind speed, and rain probability by the hour.

When temperatures are expected to drop below 2°C, you'll see a frost alert. Date, temperature, front and centre. The threshold follows the standard used by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Not a guess. Not an approximation.

Profitability

This one took some groundwork. To show you which crops and animals are actually profitable, we first updated how revenue and expenses are recorded in LiteFarm (Read here). You can now link income and costs to specific crop varieties and animal(s) on your farm.

The profitability tile turns that into something readable.

At a glance: your net profit for the period, how it compares to the previous year, your total revenue, total expenses, and your margin.

Expand it and you get more: your top revenue sources broken down by crop sales, animal sales, and other income. Your biggest expense categories. And a table that lets you switch between crops and animals to see revenue, expenses, and net profit side by side for each one.

The default view is year to date. You can change the period from the dropdown.

To get the most out of it, record your revenue and expenses in LiteFarm and link them to the relevant crop or animal when you do. The tile only knows what you've told it. The more attributed transactions you have, the sharper the breakdown.

If you're starting fresh, don't worry about the history you've missed. You can record backdated transactions in LiteFarm, so it's worth going back and logging what you have. Even a partial record gives you something real to work with.

What's next

Farm summary, sustainability metrics, and more are already in the works. We'll be adding them in the coming months.

As always, happy farming.

The LiteFarm Team