If Agworld is where your cropping records live, the detail of what went onto each paddock, product by product and active ingredient by active ingredient, is probably already in there. The cropping section of your Ruminati emissions report asks for those same inputs. The integration between the two platforms lets you export them from Agworld as a single file and load it into Ruminati, so a season of records comes across without being typed out a second time. For most croppers that retyping has been the slowest part of the whole process, which is why it’s worth setting this up properly once.
The first thing to check is your Agworld plan, because the custom report export needs Grower Pro or above. If you’re on a lower plan, Agworld offers a short-term temporary upgrade, and you can arrange it by emailing their support team at support@agworld.com.
It also helps to know what the import covers and what it leaves to you. The file brings your inputs across, and once it’s in you check the crop types against the ones Ruminati uses and enter the area sown, in hectares, for each crop. Four things are then added by hand: your production system, your average yield in tonnes per hectare, the percentage of any crop that was burned, and your production data on the Production page. Having your sown areas and yields to hand before you begin means you won’t be stopping partway through.
Building the report in Agworld
In Agworld, go to Reporting, then Custom Reports, and start a new report with the green New Report button. Give it a name you’ll recognise next season, such as Emissions Report followed by your farm name, because you’ll be coming back to it.
Under Report Sections, choose Activities and click Add. The data grouping comes next, and the order matters, since an import built on a different sequence won’t work properly in Ruminati. Set the groupings in this order:
- Production Year
- Season
- Farm
- Crop List
- Activity ID
- Product Category
- Input
- Active Ingredient
Each grouping can be dragged into place using the four horizontal bars beside it.
Under “What data do you want to view?”, select Weight of Active. In Additional Filters, set Activity Status to Done, Activity Types to Actual Activity and Input Types to Product, which limits the report to completed jobs and the products applied. Then click Done, Next and Save & Preview, and when the preview looks right, click Run Report. Type in the production year that matches your Ruminati reporting year and click Export to download the CSV.
Loading it into Ruminati
Open the Cropping section of your emissions report and click Import Agworld Data, then upload the CSV you’ve just downloaded. From there, check that the crop types match the ones used in Ruminati, enter the area sown for each crop, and add the remaining figures listed above.
Next season
The Agworld report only needs building once. When the next reporting year comes around, change the production year on the saved report, export the new file and import it into Ruminati as you did before, so every season is built from your Agworld records in an identical layout.
If a step doesn’t behave the way it’s described here, or you have questions along the way, email the team at hello@ruminati.com.au.
