Your farm. A connected picture.
Know what you have.
Follow how it grows.
Bring your stock, production and daily work together in Google Sheets. See what is on your farm, where it is and what has happened to it, with the history behind each item or lot close at hand.
Farm records become more useful when they connect. A quantity tells you what remains; its source, movements, observations and work history help explain how it got there. Farmer’s Helper brings those pieces together so you can understand today’s position and look back when a question comes up.
Development preview. Farmer’s Helper is being developed and tested. It is not yet available for purchase.
Start with the way your farm works, then use the connected sections to record and understand its day-to-day activity. Each section in the menu has detailed help for its individual features.
Set up Farmer’s Helper to match your farm: name your products and varieties, describe the forms of stock you keep, choose how you measure them, and define your locations and production stages.
These details provide the options in your dropdown menus, so you can select familiar names when recording daily work instead of typing them again.
Explore farm setup →Record incoming stock and follow either individual items or quantities kept together as lots. Current Stock brings the remaining quantity, location, stage and availability into one view. Stock numbers give each record a lasting identity as it moves through your farm.
Explore stock management →Connect new production or a harvest to the stock it came from, including work with more than one source. Record what was used and what remains. Lineage helps you follow those relationships later, so an output has a history rather than becoming an isolated number.
Explore production and lineage →Follow movements and stage changes, record actual use or loss, and manage assessments and holds. Corrections have their own history, helping you distinguish a mistaken entry from something that really happened on the farm.
Explore stock changes →Keep dated observations with the stock they describe and review them alongside its history. Batches help you manage related stock together, including shared notes. Recording an observation stays separate from a decision to change quantity, stage or availability.
Explore notes and history →Plan dated work, follow task progress and use stage timings to help organize growing and handling cycles. Work history keeps completed activity in view. Keep your plan alongside a separate record of what actually happened.
Explore work and plans →See planned tasks in the spreadsheet’s Calendar view, or connect a dedicated Farmer’s Helper Google Calendar for another way to visualize upcoming work. Send updates from the spreadsheet when you want that calendar to reflect your latest plan.
Explore the Calendar display →Review stock and work needing attention, then use stock and activity summaries to look across your records. Move from an overview to the individual history when you need to understand the details behind it.
Explore overviews and reports →Archive eligible finished history, retrieve it when needed and restore it to the working records. Backup and update guidance helps you keep a separate copy before maintenance. Archive and restore are being tested as part of the preview.
Explore archive, restore and backups →Farmer’s Helper is designed around the familiar Google Sheets workspace. Use the worksheets to enter routine records and review the results, with focused tools for tasks such as applying a farm template, making corrections or connecting Calendar. Your entries and results stay in view, with additional guidance for tasks that need it.
Some features use the Farmer’s Helper add-on. The feature guides explain which tools are needed and how to use them; copying a workbook alone does not install the add-on.
This page gives you the overall picture. The menu follows the spreadsheet’s sections, from setting up your farm to managing stock, recording production and reviewing history. Each help page explains what its features do and how to use them.