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The importance of planning

Planning goes hand in hand with record-keeping. You need to have the figures from past production in order to plan ahead effectively.

When I started growing vegetables for a large estate, we would plant a certain quantity of each vegetable on a weekly basis and naively expected to harvest a uniform amount.

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