Tutorials

Learn E-Farmer with Sprout.

Short videos, about a minute each, that follow one farm from its first hens to its maize harvest. Watch them in order or pick the step you need.

Videos only load when you press play, to save your mobile data.

The desktop app, with Sprout

Eleven episodes on Windows: set up the farm, raise 100 laying hens, grow maize and plan your next project.

Episode 1
Set up your farm in 1 minute
A local profile, a poultry farm in Bafoussam and a first plot, then a tour of the app.
Episode 2
Your first batch of 100 laying hens
Type, Isa Brown breed and purchase, then the feed, water and laying the app works out for you.
Episode 3
Feed and vaccines for your hens
Buy 500 kg of feed, set the daily ration, see how many days of stock are left and record the Newcastle vaccine.
Episode 4
Your first eggs
Record the day’s collection, the stock in trays and the laying rate against the breed’s standard.
Episode 5
Sell your eggs
Add a customer, sell 450 eggs from your batch and follow the money to the dashboard and reports.
Episode 6
Your farm’s money
The batch’s wallets, a deposit, a small expense, then the balance of money in and out.
Episode 7
Your morning with Today
The day’s jobs and the farm’s weather on one page: each job ticks itself off once it is done.
Episode 8
Start a maize crop
Plot, CMS 8704 variety, suggested seed and calendar: the expected yield and harvest date are worked out.
Episode 9
Follow your crop
Weeding and labour, urea from the store, a fall armyworm report and the cycle’s expenses.
Episode 10
The harvest
650 kg harvested, 400 kg sold, the cycle closed: income, margin and yield per hectare.
Episode 11
The project planner
500 laying hens: the money you need, when it comes back and the first steps that matter.

From creating your account to following your crop, on iPhone and Android.

Create your account
Cloud mode, your name, email, what you raise and a password: your farm is open.
Create your farm
In local mode: what you raise, where your farm is, then its name.
Create a plot
A 10 × 6 m rectangle, the area worked out for you, a name and your town.
Bring in your first hens
50 Isa Brown layers, 18 weeks old, bought and placed on your plot.
Start a crop
CMS 8704 maize on your plot, the suggested seed and the expected harvest date.
Follow your crop
The advice for each stage, the growth path and the field notebook.