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Vol. 01 · No. 04April 2026
Built in Oregon · for Oregon
Linn County · grass seed harvest · working equipment
FOR OREGON HAY & GRAIN OPERATIONSApril 2026 · Oregon field edition

Haydoesn'twaitforovertimepaperwork.

When the weather window opens, your crew works dawn to dark. That means long days, likely overtime, and timecards that need to be right. FarmTC keeps the records together.

Developed with a family that's farmed Tillamook County for over a century.· Tillamook · Marion · Yamhill · Hood River · Linn · Hillsboro
Pay period · day 3 of 7
PR-04128
Crew
hay & grain operations
Block
Field zone · active
Foreman
M. Estrella
Rate
Hourly + piece
T-204Rosa M. García7.42h$181.20
T-217Javier H. Soto7.42h$174.85
T-238Luis O. Vargas7.41h$169.40
T-241Carmen R. Ibarra7.42h$192.05
T-249Diego F. Núñez7.42h$165.70
Pieces logged87
Min-wage adj.+$14.20
Heat-rest credit$0.00
Crew total$883.20
BOLI READY
Geofence · N. Pasture
5 of 5 clocked in
FOR OREGON HAY & GRAIN OPERATIONS

Built for this operation, not a generic office.

A route-specific field record keeps the work, payroll math, and readiness trail in one place.

01
Route wedge

Hay doesn't wait for overtime paperwork.

Oregon hay: $785 million (#3 commodity). Wheat: $431 million. Weather-dependent harvest windows create intense, overtime-heavy labor periods.

HB 4002 · OAR 839-020 · OAR 437-004-1135 · 20 CFR 655
FOR OREGON HAY & GRAIN OPERATIONS
Route · field-ready
Clock-ingeofenced
Payrollexportable
Quotesourced
Cellar archive · 6:24 AM · records ready for review
02
Field work

Offline records that keep working.

Weather-dependent harvest windows — when it's time to cut, you cut

SQLite sync · geofence events · bilingual worker flow
Field sync
No signal · still logged
Modeoffline
Syncqueued
Reviewready
Aerial view · multi-zone operation
03
Crew trust

Workers see the record before payday.

Long days during cutting and baling mean overtime is easy to miss

EN/ES receipts · setup-code join · QR sign-in kit
Worker view
Pay detail · visible
“Su turno empieza a las 5:00 AM. Traiga capas — neblina ligera.”
LanguageEN/ES
JoinQR + link
Receiptsaved
Vineyard sunset · foreman walks the rows
04
Pay period

The export is ready before the week gets away.

A 3-day hay cutting window with a 6-person crew easily generates 100+ overtime hours. At $19+/hr × 1.5x, getting those records wrong is expensive.

QuickBooks · ADP · Gusto · Paychex · OnPay · Paycor
Payroll export
Pay run · ready
Hoursapproved
Piecescounted
Exportqueued
Piece-rate harvest · auto-tallied
Photo essay · the rest of Oregon

Eleven farm types, one operating system.

We built the four capabilities above for Oregon's most labor-intensive crop types. The same engine runs everything else.

Dairy

Tillamook to Linn County.

Parlor shifts. Milking rotations. Salaried-hourly hybrids. Grade A retention compliance.

Tillamook & Linn County
Highest year-round OT exposure
Parlor shifts, milking rotations, salaried-hourly hybrids. Up to 12% wage increase at the 40-hour threshold. AEOTC credits offset.
PIECE-RATE · HOURLY · SALARIED · ALL HANDLED
Grass seed & grain

Linn County grass seed.

Swather, combine, and cleaning crews. A three-week weather window means twelve-hour days. Hourly plus seasonal overtime, every break on record.

Linn & Marion County
90% of US grass seed
Oregon grows the nation's cool-season grass seed. Tight weather windows push 12-hour days through spray, harvest, and cleaning. FarmTC keeps every shift, break, and weather pause on one timeline.
HOURLY · OT · WEATHER WINDOWS
Christmas trees

Clackamas County Christmas trees.

Shearing crews through summer. Cut and bale in November. Seasonal H-2A and local labor, both on the same record.

Clackamas & Marion County
Oregon = top US producer
Year-round shearing rolls into a six-week November harvest. H-2A documentation, piece-rate baling, and end-of-season payouts all stay tied to the row and the worker.
SEASONAL · H-2A · PIECE-RATE
Nurseries

Washington County nurseries.

Greenhouse staff on salaried-hourly hybrids. Field crews on piece-rate transplanting. Same payroll run, same export, same record.

Washington & Marion County
Oregon's #1 ag sector
Nursery and greenhouse is Oregon's top-grossing commodity. Year-round salaried-hourly hybrids meet seasonal piece-rate transplanting on one payroll run, with §778.115 weighted average handled automatically.
YEAR-ROUND · HOURLY · PIECE-RATE
The economics

What is your office time worth each year?

Enter your current payroll prep time. The estimate is built from the assumptions shown here.

Formula shown: 6 x 26 x $50

Hours per pay period x pay periods per year x office-time value. Actual results depend on your current workflow and payroll setup.

Estimated office-time value
$7,800

That's 156 office hours per year based on the assumptions shown here.

FarmTC helps keep time and payroll records organized for Oregon BOLI review; it does not replace legal or tax advice.

Book a 15-min demo with this estimate →
Real customer quote · Tillamook County
I realized I'd been thinking too small when I saw what was actually possible.
FM
Farm Manager, Tillamook County
FarmTC discovery conversation · real customer quote
Real FarmTC field notes
Tillamook manager quotePaper timecard interviewPayroll walkthroughBilingual setup feedback
The codes · by name

Every Oregon code. Handled.

Most ag SaaS lists 'compliance' as a feature. Here are the actual Oregon statutes — by code — that FarmTC was built around. If you don't know them by code, you don't understand the operation.

HANDLED
HB 4002

Oregon ag overtime, phased.

48-hour threshold today, dropping to 40 by 2027. Auto-calculated, with seasonal exemption windows applied per crop and county.

HANDLED
ORS 315.133 · ORS 315.135

AEOTC · the overtime tax credit Oregon owes you.

Oregon refunds a share of every overtime dollar you pay agricultural workers. Dairy farms under 25 FTE: 100% — and that rate doesn't phase out. Other Oregon farms: 30%–80% depending on size and tax year. The condition: track hours, breaks, and overtime in the format the state's application expects, week by week. In 2024, only $5.1M of the $55M annual cap was claimed — most farms left their share on the table because the records were too hard to assemble after the fact. FarmTC tracks the right things in the right format from the first clock-in. Application window opens January 1 each year. Not tax advice — confirm eligibility with your CPA.

HANDLED
OAR 437-004-1135

OSHA heat-illness rule.

Rest-break rules at 80°F+, escalating cycles at 90°F+. Logged automatically against the geofenced clock-in.

HANDLED
OAR 839-020

BOLI wage & hour records.

Three-year retention, employer-of-record metadata, separation pay timing. Built in.

HANDLED
20 CFR 655 · 29 CFR 778.112 · 516

H-2A · day-rate · recordkeeping.

Federal H-2A program, day-rate regular-rate floor, mixed-basis weighted average, 29 CFR 516 recordkeeping. Integrates with WAFLA and OFLC filings.

How it works

From signup to organized records in 30 days.

No implementation fee. No consultant required. We sit on the call for your first pay run.

01
Day 1 · Monday

Onboard your crew.

Invite from your phone or laptop. Each worker is set up in under 5 minutes — including the app download. Roster imports from any payroll. Bilingual onboarding goes live the same hour.

02
Day 7 · Next Monday

First pay run, audited.

Friday's pay period runs through FarmTC. Compliance items surface before payroll. We sit on the call for the first cycle.

03
Day 30 · One month in

Records organized, ready for review.

Time, H-2A, and heat-rest records are organized in one exportable trail. Your office team is doing other work now.

Stamped · 28 April 2026

Bring the next pay period back under control.

A 15-minute demo. We use your last pay period, your crew mix, and the records you already have.

Book a 15-min demo
Linn County · grass seed harvest · working equipment