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Farmer’s Helper · Set up your farm

Units

Use Units to define how you measure stock quantities: individual items, weight, volume or area.

You can track items separately or keep track of a group together as a lot. For example, you might count individual plants or measure a harvested lot by its total weight.

Quantity unit

Enter a short, familiar label, such as count, g, kg, mL, L or m². This label goes beside the amount: 12 count or 2.5 kg. A unit measures an amount; it does not name a container or a kind of stock.

Quantity type

Choose Count for individual pieces or animals, Mass for weight, Volume for liquid volume, or Area for a surface measurement. For example, kg measures Mass and mL measures Volume.

Measurement basis

This identifies the measurement represented by the unit. Keep the supplied value for existing units. When adding a unit, repeat its short unit label here, such as kg. Changing an established unit’s measurement basis would change the meaning of earlier quantities, so add a new unit instead. This field does not convert quantities between units.

Decimal places

Choose a whole number from 0 to 6. Entry checks on Add Stock and Produce or harvest flag quantities that exceed this precision, and Correct quantity checks the same limit. For example, 0 allows whole numbers while 2 allows amounts such as 1.25. This setting does not round a value you type or change the appearance of every quantity. Separately tracked items use a quantity of one per record.

Show in dropdowns

Choose Yes if you want this to be an available option in your dropdown menus. If you choose No, it will not appear as a new option. Existing records are kept.

Reference keep unchanged

This reference connects this setup entry to its saved history. Leave it unchanged.

Choose the right unit for each stock type

After creating units here, select the appropriate Quantity unit on Stock types. A plant can use count and harvested produce can use kg. Keep quantities and units together when entering stock; the spreadsheet does not treat 1 kg as the same number as 1 g.