Dashboard builder

A farm dashboard for the whole season
from first pass to yield per acre.

Describe how you crop your ground and the agent builds a web app for field records, input passes, harvest loads and machine hours, ready to publish for your operators.

Start building free More dashboard ideas
Starter prompt

Build a farm management dashboard for a 1,600-acre corn and soybean operation with rented ground. Track fields with farm and tract numbers, tillable acres and soil type, and one planting record per field per crop year with crop, variety, seeding rate and planting date. Operators log every seed, fertilizer and crop protection pass from a phone with product, EPA registration number, rate per acre, acres treated and the machine used. At harvest, record loads with wet weight and moisture. Show planting and harvest progress in acres, yield per acre by field, and a machine list with hour meters and the next service due.

Build it in Netiva Paste the prompt into a new workspace and adjust it to your business.
Overview

Who this farm dashboard is for

By the time the combine is parked, the season lives in six places: a spray notebook in the cab, scale tickets in the truck door, the agronomist’s PDFs and a spreadsheet somebody rebuilds every winter. Nobody can say what a rented quarter really made, or when the sprayer was last serviced, without digging. A farm dashboard built with Netiva keeps fields, plantings, input passes, harvest loads and machines together, so the crop year adds up field by field while the season is still running.

Key features

What your farm dashboard can do

  • Fields, acres and rotation history

    Every field carries its farm and tract numbers, tillable acres and soil, and keeps each crop year underneath it, so what grew there last season and what is planned this season sit on one page.

    • Tillable acres kept apart from total deeded acres
    • Crop, variety and seeding rate stored per crop year
    • Rotation history and past yields on the field page
    • Saved views for owned ground and for each landlord

  • Planting and harvest progress

    The season view counts acres rather than fields, so you can see how much of each crop is in the ground, what is still standing and which fields have already gone across the scale.

    • Acres planted and harvested against the planned acres
    • A week-by-week calendar filtered to one crop or farm
    • Harvest loads recorded with wet weight and moisture
    • Yield per acre worked out field by field

  • Input passes logged in the cab

    Operators open the app between rounds and record each seed, fertilizer or crop protection pass: product, rate per acre, acres treated, the machine that made it and the wind and temperature at the time.

    • Product label looked up by barcode with the phone camera
    • EPA registration number stored with pesticide products
    • Re-entry and pre-harvest dates figured from label hours
    • Applicator taken from whoever is signed in

  • Machine hours and service due

    Tractors, planters, sprayers and combines each carry an hour meter reading, a service interval and shop notes, so anything close to a service or sitting down shows up before the next field day.

    • Hours entered at the end of a pass or a day
    • Service list ordered by hours left on the interval
    • Breakdowns logged with the part and hours lost
    • A weekly shop email of what is coming due
Data model

The collections behind it

Netiva keeps your records in built-in collections. Here’s a starting structure — the agent adapts it to your prompt, and you can change it any time.

Fields

Your ground, field by field, with the numbers and acres everything else is measured against.

  • Name (required) What operators call it on the radio, not the legal description Text
  • Farm and tract number FSA farm, tract and field numbers used on acreage reports Text
  • Tillable acres (required) The acres you actually crop; every per-acre figure divides by this Number
  • Soil type Dominant series, or a plain sand, loam or clay note Text
  • Irrigated Yes or no, so pivots and drip lines get their own water passes Text
  • Landlord Blank for owned ground; groups rented fields by owner Text
  • Field sketch A photo or screenshot of the boundary, not a GIS layer Image
  • Notes Drainage, wet holes, gate access, anything a new operator needs Paragraph

Plantings

One record per field per crop year, from seed in the ground to bushels out.

  • Field (required) Relation to Fields
  • Crop year (required) Four digits, so a field keeps a readable history Number
  • Crop (required) Corn, soybeans, wheat, hay or a vegetable crop Text
  • Variety or hybrid Text
  • Seeding rate Seeds or pounds per acre, whichever the crop is sold in Number
  • Planted on Date
  • Harvest finished Last day the field was cut, dug or picked Date
  • Dry bushels Totaled from the loads once moisture is taken out Number

Applications

Every seed, fertilizer and crop protection pass, with the rate and the conditions it went on in.

  • Planting (required) Carries the field, crop and crop year across without retyping Relation to Plantings
  • Product (required) Trade name as it reads on the label or the dealer ticket Text
  • EPA registration number Pesticide products only; left blank for seed and fertilizer Text
  • Rate per acre (required) In the label unit: ounces, pints, pounds, gallons or units Number
  • Acres treated (required) Number
  • Applied at (required) Date & time
  • Machine The sprayer, spreader or planter that made the pass Relation to Equipment
  • Wind and temperature Speed, direction and air temperature when the pass started Text

Equipment

The machinery line, with hour meters, service intervals and what is down.

  • Machine (required) The name operators use, plus make and model Text
  • Type (required) Tractor, planter, sprayer, combine, truck or tillage Text
  • Hour meter Engine or separator hours at the last reading Number
  • Hours read on Date
  • Service interval Hours between oil and filter services, from the manual Number
  • Status (required) In service, in the shop or down Text
  • Assigned operator Text

Required field. Types are Netiva collection field types.

Screens

Pages and screens to start with

A typical first version. Ask the agent for more, or annotate the preview to change any of them.

  • Season overview

    Acres planted and harvested against the plan, crop by crop, with the fields still to go and the bushels recorded so far.

    Signed-in users

  • Field detail

    One field with its acres and soil, this crop year’s planting, every pass applied to it and what it yielded in earlier years.

    Signed-in users

  • Log a pass

    A phone form for the cab: pick the field, scan or search the product, enter rate per acre and acres treated, then note wind and temperature.

    Signed-in users

  • Harvest log

    Loads as they come off: field, wet weight, moisture and where they went, totaled into dry bushels and yield per acre for each field.

    Signed-in users

  • Shop list

    Machines ranked by hours left before the next service, with anything down at the top and the last service shown on each line.

    Your team

  • Landlord page

    A signed-in owner sees only their own farms: acres, what was planted, harvest dates and the final yield on each field.

    Signed-in users
How it works

From prompt to a live farm dashboard

  1. Describe your ground

    Tell the agent how many acres you crop, which crops you rotate, who drives what and who else needs to see the numbers. It drafts collections for fields, plantings, passes and machines and shows the screens in a live preview.

  2. Load the fields

    Type your fields, acres and soil into the collection grid, or ask the collection assistant to draft the rows from a list and tidy the names, then add this crop year’s plantings on top of them.

  3. Try the cab screens

    Open the pass form and the harvest log on a phone with gloves on. Annotate whatever is awkward — too many taps, the wrong default field — and the agent rewrites it while you watch the preview.

  4. Publish before planting

    Publish in one click and send operators the link, on your own domain from the Starter plan. Every later change is checkpointed, so an edit made in the middle of harvest can be rolled back the same day.

Why Netiva

Netiva vs a traditional build

Building a farm dashboard with Netiva compared with a traditional build
Criterion With Netiva Traditional build
Application records Each pass logged where it happens, with rate, acres, machine and the re-entry date already worked out A spray notebook in the cab, typed up in the winter if anyone can still read it
Harvest numbers Loads recorded against the field and totaled to dry bushels and yield per acre as the combine runs Scale tickets in the truck door and a spreadsheet rebuilt every fall
Getting started Describe what you need in chat and watch it take shape in a live preview Hire developers, or stitch together templates, plugins and a hosting plan
Content and data Built-in collections with nine field types, bound straight to your pages Set up and connect a separate database or CMS
Making changes Ask the agent; every change is checkpointed and reversible File a ticket, wait for a sprint, redeploy
Hosting and domain Global hosting and automatic SSL; connect a custom domain from the Starter plan Buy hosting, then install and renew SSL certificates yourself
Code ownership Clean production code you own and can export Locked into a template, plugin or agency setup
Examples

Ways teams use it

  • A row-crop farm with rented ground

    The operation crops owned and rented fields under several landlords. Fields carry the farm and tract numbers used on acreage reports, and each owner gets a page with their acres, planting dates and final yields instead of a phone call in December.

  • A mixed vegetable farm with succession plantings

    Beds go in every two weeks and are picked many times over. Each succession is its own planting record with its own seeding date, so the crew sees what is due to be cut this week and the grower can compare how each sowing performed.

  • A farm manager running several operations

    One manager looks after ground for a few owners with a shared machinery line. Hours are logged against the machine wherever it works, so service comes due on hours instead of on the calendar, while each operation’s acres and passes stay separate.

Good to know

Before you build

  • Application rules are set by your state

    USDA rescinded the federal recordkeeping rule for private applicators of restricted use pesticides in July 2025, but state rules still apply and EPA’s Worker Protection Standard still requires application information to be posted and kept. Records here aren’t compliance.

  • No field mapping or prescriptions

    Netiva doesn’t draw boundaries, run a GIS layer or write variable-rate prescriptions. Fields hold acres and a sketch; keep shapefiles, soil sampling grids and prescription work in the software your agronomist and your monitor already use.

  • Monitor and telematics numbers

    Yield monitor and telematics data doesn’t arrive on its own. If your equipment or farm software provider offers a REST API, the app can call it with a key stored securely; otherwise operators key loads from scale tickets and read hour meters in the yard.

  • Your own moisture and shrink math

    The app does the bushel math you describe — say, taking corn to 15.5% moisture and soybeans to 13% — but the elevator’s discount schedule, drying charge and test weight rules are theirs. Check a settlement sheet against your first few fields.

FAQ

Questions about building a farm dashboard

Does the farm dashboard work out in the field with no signal?

It runs in the phone browser, so it needs a connection — Netiva builds web apps, not software that installs on a handset and works offline. In practice operators log a pass at the end of the round or at the field entrance where there is coverage, and anything logged from a dead corner of the farm gets entered on the way back to the yard.

How does the app keep spray and fertilizer records?

Each pass is a record tied to a planting, so it already carries the field, crop and crop year. You add the product and its EPA registration number, the rate per acre, acres treated, the machine and the wind and temperature. From the restricted-entry hours and pre-harvest days you enter off the label, the app can show when workers may re-enter and when the crop can be cut.

Can it pull rainfall and temperatures into each field?

Yes, if you bring your own API key. Apps built with Netiva can call any REST API with keys stored securely, so you can ask the agent to fetch daily rainfall and highs and lows for each field’s location from a weather provider you choose. Growing degree day totals are then arithmetic on stored numbers, using the base temperature you set for the crop.

Can the dashboard work out yield per acre for each field?

That is the kind of logic you ask the agent for. Harvest loads store wet weight and moisture, and the app converts each load to dry bushels at the standard moisture you name — often 15.5% for corn and 13% for soybeans — then divides the field total by harvested acres and shows the result beside the variety planted there.

Can landlords and operators see different pages?

Each person signs in and sees their own records. A landlord opens a page listing only their farms, acres, planting dates and yields, with nothing from the rest of the operation on it. Operators sign into the same app and work from the cab form and the shop list. Describe the split you want when you brief the agent and it builds those views.

Do I own the farm dashboard and its code?

Yes. Netiva writes clean production code you can read, edit in the editor or export whenever you want, with no proprietary runtime behind it. Every change the agent makes is checkpointed as well, so an edit made in the middle of harvest can be compared with what was there before and rolled back without losing the rest of the season.

Keep exploring
All ideas
Compare

How Netiva compares

All comparisons

Drafted with AI assistance from Netiva’s product pages and reviewed by the Netiva team. Example data models, screens and prompts are illustrative starting points, not customer projects.

Build your farm dashboard today

Describe it in a sentence and watch Netiva’s agent build it. Free to start — no credit card required.

Start building free Browse more ideas