Crop Planning for Microgreens
Microgreens may be small, but growing them efficiently requires some big planning.
If you’ve ever struggled to align your planting with your harvest needs—or found yourself tossing unused trays—you’re not alone. That’s where crop planning comes in. Crop planning is an often overlooked topic but is crucial for microgreens business success.
This page contains our key articles and software solutions related to crop planning. You can also check out the crop and financial planning section in our free online microgreens course here.
SeedLeaf, Web-Based Crop Planner
SeedLeaf is an easy-to-use online crop planning platform to help you manage your weekly microgreens crop production, customer orders, and financial planning.
Designed for microgreens growers at all scales, SeedLeaf will help streamline your operation in ways you didn’t even know were possible.
Learn more and subscribe at seedleaf.co!
Crop Planning Spreadsheet
We are happy to offer the world’s most powerful crop and financial planning spreadsheet tool for small- to mid-scale microgreens operations! We have developed this spreadsheet tool based on more than fifteen years of microgreens production experience.
From annual projections to day-to-day operations, the Crop Planner will keep you organized, on task, and on budget.
The Crop Planner was totally revamped in October 2020 to be more powerful, more versatile, and more user friendly. And with the new Cash Flow table, this is the perfect business planning financial tool for microgreens.
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Crop Planner Features
- Add single crops, mixes, and live trays to your orders
- Collapsible sales summaries by crops, sizes, weights, and customers
- Accommodates three harvests each week
- Delivery summary for ease of customer order preparation
- Autofill for delivery routes
- “Tasks this week” page to keep you organized each week!
- Expense calculations for growing medium, seeds, packaging, labour, and overhead costs
- Specify soil, seeds, and packaging for individual crops
- Crop archive for storing inactive crops
- Order autofill for the following week
- Annual Cash Flow Table
- Units conversion table
- Price-by-Size-by-Yield Calculator
- Bi-weekly crop orders!
- And much more!
Check out a Preview
Check out the pre-filled version online here to see what the spreadsheet looks like in action. Navigate all the sheets and see all the features!
Check out spreadsheet tutorial videos here.
Please note the Crop Planner is a non-refundable product.
Crop Planning Mini Course
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Microgreens Crop Planning – Part 1 of 3
In this first of three courses, we introduce the core principles of microgreens crop planning including the concepts of Growing To Order, Crop Cycles, Crop Stages and Production Tasks.
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Microgreens Crop Planning – Part 2 of 3
In part 2 of this series we go into more detail to help you refine your crop planning strategies by introducing more advanced topics such as buffers, virtual customers, and product mixes
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Microgreens Crop Planning Part 3 of 3
In this final course in the series we dive into spreadsheets to help you get started in creating your own crop planning tool!
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