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More SOP Ideas and Information
Farm/Ranch Jobs that Could Benefit from SOPs:
- Field and packing sanitation practices for food safety purposes
- Irrigation equipment and schedules
- Tractor and other equipment operation and maintenance
- Planting schedules and bed rotation
- Soil amendments, plus their management and application
- Cover crop components and process
- Grazing rotation
- Pesticide application
- Pond maintenance
- Manure handling and management
- Fence maintenance and repair plan
- For crop/orchard operations, instructions for
- varietal-specific needs and care
- locations of specific varietals
- post-harvest handling for food safety purposes
- bed and field management, including pre- and post-season field preparation
- protected cultivation equipment maintenance
- For livestock operations, instructions for
- foot baths
- breed-specific needs
- shearing
- vaccination
- culling
- moving, handling, and restraining
- castrating
- feeding
- breeding
- managing guardian animals
Resources and Other SOP Examples:
- California Small Farm Food Safety Manual (2011 Draft) - UC Small Farm Program, SOPs for Good Agricultural Practices
- Dairy Farm Business Standard Operating Procedures: A Writing Guide - The Pennsylvania State University
- A Guide to Writing Standard Operating Procedures - Beef Quality Assurance
- SOPs for Equipment Operation, Field Work, and Harvest - University of Idaho Experimental Farm. Written to reduce the spread of weeds from field to field during daily operations.