Farming Calculator

A successful crop, or one that falls short, starts with plant stands: How many rice plants is there alive in the ground? What happens when … Read more

How many seed packets do I need to purchase? It sounds like such a straightforward question: You stare at the blank spot on your map … Read more

You can’t harvest hope; you can only be precise with wheat. You can drill it perfectly uniform across a field, and yet still go home … Read more

You plant the field, and then you realize you packed them in too tight, so you’re watching your cauliflower turn from tight white heads to … Read more

How much turmeric do you want? How much space does each plant need? What are you planning to grow, and what spacing and size are … Read more

Are you staring down an empty acre of land, wondering exactly how many rhizomes you need to plant in there? There’s something particular about the … Read more

A single row is the beginning: That’s when the math begins. Each inch you leave between each seedling along that initial row will affect the … Read more

It starts as an abstraction when buying aloe vera land. It is math problem you don’t want to face. And then you see the acres … Read more

When the tires hit the ground, sunflower plans become real. The plants is quite forgiving, up to a point. Getting the population density right are … Read more

Setting up a pineapple field means placing thousands of plant in evenly spaced, straight rows. Before harvest time, you must gets the row spacing correct. … Read more

When most farmers envision growing lavender, they imagine a repeating purple row that stretches out as far as eye can see. What they get instead? … Read more