Twenty Fields and No System for Tracking What Got Done
A Swedish family farm running twenty named fields — from Tankvången and Stor åkern near the main property to the more distant parcels at Granmossen, Trekanten, and Mossen — does not run its field work out of memory. The operations that happen on any given day in May or June: which harrow went over which field, whether the disk harrow or the Wiberg cultivator was used, whether the grass was cut but not yet turned, whether the round bales got wrapped and stacked — all of this needs to exist somewhere other than the operator's head.
When there are multiple people working the farm across multiple days with multiple pieces of equipment, the informal system fails fastest at shift boundaries and at the end of the season when you need to account for what each field actually received in terms of fertilizer and tillage passes.
A Day's Work, Field by Field
The operation boolean fields — Gödsling (fertilizing), Ringvältat (roller consolidation), Harvning with three implement variants (tallriksharven/disk, kultivatorn/cultivator, Wiberg), Så (seeding), Slå gräs (mow grass), Vända gräs (ted/turn grass), Pressa o plasts (press and wrap bales), Trandport-köra ihop balar (transport/consolidate bales) — capture the complete tillage and harvest cycle. Each operation is a boolean because on a given day, either you did it or you didn't.
The distinction between the three harrow types is operationally meaningful, not cosmetic. The disk harrow (tallriksharven) is the first-pass implement that cuts through surface residue and inverts the top layer. The cultivator (kultivatorn) is used for lighter secondary tillage and inter-row work. The Wiberg — a specific Swedish implement type associated with conservation tillage — makes a different soil contact than either disk or tine approach. Knowing which implement was used on a given pass at Söndravång or Axeltorp tells you what that field's soil preparation state actually was, not just that "tillage happened."
The Grass Harvest Sequence as a Decision Chain
Slå, Vända, Pressa o plasts — mow, turn, press and wrap — are three separate boolean fields because they represent three separate tractor passes across the same field at intervals measured in days, not hours. Grass cut at 07:00 on a Tuesday on Henningas needs to wilt until Wednesday or Thursday before it is ready to turn. It cannot be baled until the moisture is below the target level for the wrapping regime you are using.
Logging each pass as a separate boolean on a separate day record means the sequence is visible in the database: cut on the 15th, turned on the 16th and 17th, pressed and wrapped on the 18th. That timeline is recoverable at the end of the season when you are assessing dry matter yield and fermentation quality against the conditions that day — temperature, rain events, the hours between cut and wrap.
Transport and bale consolidation as a final boolean closes the field operation: the bales have been moved from the field to the storage area. Until that field is marked, the field is still encumbered.
Silage Sales in the Same Record
The ensilage sale fields — Försäljning av ensilage (boolean), Namn (buyer name), Antal (quantity of bales), and Betalning (payment status: paid cash, unpaid, or invoice via Trolle Ljungby AB) — live in the same record as the field operations. This means the sale of bales cut from a specific day's work is directly linked to the production record, not maintained in a separate account book.
Payment status with three options — paid in cash, not yet paid, or invoiced through the company — is the accounts receivable tracking layer for informal farm sales. A bale sold to a neighbor who has not paid yet stays in the database under "Ej betalt" until the cash arrives or the invoice clears. The Signatur field at the end of the record captures the operator who completed or supervised the day's work.
Start and Slut (end) times bracket the working hours for that day's field operations — which is both labor accounting and a useful variable when correlating mowing times against morning dew conditions.