Looking for specialised skills/product/advice (farming)

As anyone around here got extensive-farming experience (as a developer of course :))

I am asked by a client to come up with a good (of course) planning tool for a group of up to 50 farms handling 25000 acres each. I could find several products used to record what has been done after the event, but nothing on the planning front.

For each field there are several task to undertake

Plough, Disk, Spray chemicals, Apply fertiliser, Seed, Spray chemical, Apply fertiliser, Harvest

the Fields one one farm are not contiguous

Each task requires a certain set of resources:
- equipment (Tractor, Plougher ...)
- Possibly Chemical products or Seeds
- Always Gazole for the tractor
- Employee
- As a constraint you can plough 10 months out of 12 but you cannot Spray when it is too windy or you do not seed in before April (there is 1m of snow anyway) etc...


During the work season, tractors are running 24/7 so some scheduled maintenance routine must take place etc...

Now if the weather is a problem, all remaining tasks have to be rescheduled on a daily basis (or sooner)

These guys are considering using ms project for the task and I do not believe that it is a proper tool for this and I wonder if any of you has had to deal with a similar project

Thanks for any advice or idea

Didier



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Relevant Pages

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    (rec.models.scale)
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    (rec.models.scale)
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