farmers.guide reads thirty years of daily weather for your place and this week's forecast, then tells you what needs doing and when. When frost is coming for something you have growing, it warns you in time to cover it.
An example, as it stood on April 20. Enter your ZIP code to see your own ground.
Free. Sign in with your email or mobile number, add a field, and say what is growing in it.
Tell it what you have in the ground and where. It watches the forecast, the soil and the calendar for each planting, and speaks up when there is something to do.
At risk: tomatoes (Garden), peaches in bloom (Orchard). Cover with frost cloth before sunset and uncover in the morning. Pick anything ripe.
Soil is about 53 F and rising; 50 F is the minimum. Dry enough to work, and no frost in the 7-day forecast.
The root zone is down about 1.1 inches and no rain is expected this week. Put on 0.9 inch to refill it.
Second cutting is due. Dry from Thursday through Saturday. This hay wants about 3 dry days to cure.
Due this week, at about knee high. Ground should carry equipment again by Wednesday.
From the National Weather Service, until 9:15 pm. Quarter-size hail and 60 mph gusts are possible.
Examples, in the words the app uses.
Corn, North 80. Yellowing between the veins on the older leaves. New growth is a healthy green. About the six-leaf stage.
Three weekly photos of the same planting. Photograph it again in 7 days.
An example of what a check reports.
Photograph a leaf, a plant or a stretch of row. In about half a minute you get a score, what the picture shows, the likely causes with how likely each one is, how to confirm it in the field, and what to do next.
Photograph the same planting every week and the scores draw a line. That line tells you whether what you did is working, which is the part a single diagnosis cannot.
The reading is done by an AI model that is told your crop, its growth stage and your recent weather. It is a second opinion, not a lab result. It says how sure it is, it does not name chemicals or rates, and when treatment may be called for it sends you to your county extension office or crop advisor to confirm.
Each one has its own planting windows, soil temperature, frost tolerance, water needs, jobs through the season and signs it is ready to harvest. The app only offers the ones that suit your climate, and says why not when one does not.
Daily highs, lows and rain from 1991 through 2020 for the two-and-a-half-mile square you farm in, from NOAA's climate record. Your frost dates, season length, chill hours and normal soil warm-up are worked out from that, not read off a zone map.
The National Weather Service forecast for your spot, hour by hour, with its watches and warnings. Rain that has fallen and heat that has built up are tallied each day for every planting.
Planting times, soil temperatures, water use and harvest signs from land-grant extension publications, USDA's usual planting and harvest dates by state, and the FAO's irrigation method. Each crop lists its sources in the app.
What it is not. Soil temperature, soil moisture and whether the ground will carry equipment are estimates made from weather, not readings from your field. A forecast can be wrong. Varieties, rates and chemicals are your county extension office's ground, and the decision is always yours.
The calendar and the alerts are free. Pro is for bigger operations, more photo checks and alerts by text.
| What you get | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Planting calendar and guide for your location | Yes | Yes |
| Frost, weather, planting, field work, watering, hay and harvest alerts by notification and email | Yes | Yes |
| Locations | 1 | 10 |
| Fields | 3 | 200 |
| Plantings growing at one time | 6 | 1,000 |
| Photo health checks each month | 3 | 150 |
| Alerts by text message | No | Yes |
The current price of Pro is shown in the app before you pay. Cancel any time; you keep Pro through the period you paid for.
Not to look up a ZIP code. To save fields and plantings and get alerts, yes: your email address or mobile number, and a 6-digit code we send you. There is no password to remember.
The app keeps the last schedule, forecast and alerts it loaded, so you can read them in the field. Saving changes and running a photo check need a connection.
They are built from thirty years of what the weather did where you are, corrected each day by what it is doing now. That is better than a zone map and no substitute for looking at your own ground. Where the app is estimating, it says so.
We use it to run the service for you and for nothing else. We do not sell it and there are no ads. Photos you submit are sent to our AI provider to be read and are not used to train its models. The privacy page has the whole of it.
Yes. In the app, More, then Account, then Delete my account erases your locations, fields, plantings, logs, photos and alerts at once. The support page explains how to ask us to do it for you.
It takes about two minutes: your ZIP code, a field, and what is growing in it. The first alert usually arrives the next morning.