Cropland, Pasture, Range, Orchards/Vineyards

Manure/Compost wet/dry weight
Users will be prompted to enter information on their application date, select their manure type from a dropdown menu, and provide a value for fresh weight a...
Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Days between irrigations
Days between irrigations must be less than the total amount of days between start and end date.  Example:  0 = irrigate every day ...
Tue, 17 Aug, 2021 at 1:38 PM
Field or Parcel Size
We would recommend parcel or field sizes to be at least one acre in COMET-Farm, and the tool does not allow parcels to be greater than 1100 acres in size.
Wed, 10 May, 2023 at 1:30 PM
Multiple harvest events
If you have multiple harvest events in a growing season for a single crop, it is best practice to enter each event individually rather than entering one sin...
Wed, 13 Apr, 2022 at 8:22 AM
Adding a field
Users may include up to 50 fields per project. An individual field may be up to 1200 acres. There are several methods for adding a field to the mapping p...
Tue, 4 Mar, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Number of parcels or field
Users can include up to 50 parcels per project with an 1100 ac limit per parcel... though we would not recommend creating a project with 50, 1100 acre parce...
Wed, 26 Oct, 2022 at 12:45 PM
Yield will not impact COMET report
The yield users enter will only impact a report IF a burning event is also added. Yield is not used in the DayCent model, the principle soil carbon model im...
Tue, 4 Mar, 2025 at 1:23 PM
SSURGO Soil Data
COMET-Farm utilizes the SSURGO soil data base for all Cropland (pasture, range, orchard/vineyard) models in the tool. At this time, users are not able to up...
Tue, 4 Mar, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Historic vs. baseline management
Historic Management:  COMET-Farm requires users to enter historic management (pre-baseline) management before moving on to the baseline management pane. In...
Tue, 4 Mar, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Map Units in COMET
COMET-Farm utilizes SSURGO Soil Data for all soil related calculations. USDA-NRCS defines a map unit as "a delineation on a soil map represents an area...
Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 at 3:35 PM