Log pile lists in a notebook
Number, assortment and quantity of every pile are on a slip of paper or in your phone. When the sawmill settles weeks later, you have to dig the figures up again.
Solutions · For Forestry Businesses & Woodland Owners
From the forest stand to the log pile to settling with the sawmill
FarmManager keeps your woodland parcels with their stands, every timber lot from the log pile by the road to the sale, and the declarations under the EU Deforestation Regulation for your wood. Most forestry functions are already in the Field (Lite) plan.
Does this sound familiar?
EUDR declaration for your own wood
If you sell your wood yourself, you have to declare it under the EU Deforestation Regulation, with the outlines of the stands it comes from. The declared quantity has to match the lots you sold.
Bark-beetle wood and reporting deadlines
After a storm or a bark-beetle attack, the damage has to go to the tax office without delay, otherwise it does not recognise the salvage felling. On top of that come the inspection rounds through the spruces all summer.
How your farm works with FarmManager
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Woodland parcels and stands
In FarmManager a woodland parcel is a field of the type Woodland. It has no crop plan and no entries under the Fertilizer Ordinance, and it does not count as utilised agricultural area. Under “Forest stands” you divide the parcel into its stands, each with its forest location, a boundary on the map and the tree species by layer, plus stocking degree, standing volume and increment. You draw forest roads, skid trails, landings and rescue points as forest objects, and the forest map shows all woodland parcels of the farm with their forest objects.
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Timber lots from the log pile to the tally sheet
Under “Timber lots” you keep every log pile with the number from the tag and the stand the wood comes from. You set the position on the map, or at the pile you take the position from your phone. Grading follows the German framework agreement for the roundwood trade (RVR). You enter the quantity in the unit it was measured in, and for industrial wood by the road FarmManager works out the stacked volume measured by sections. For the buyer or the haulier you print the timber tally sheet without prices.
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Timber sales and timber evidence
From the Business (Pro) plan you settle under “Timber sales” the lots that one buyer takes on one day, with mill measurement, price per solid cubic metre and deductions. The sale books the revenue once as income. The tax rate that goes with your taxation is suggested, so under § 24 UStG 5.5 % for wood from your own forest. If you book the sawmill's self-billed invoice as an e-invoice against the sale, only the difference is booked. You invoice firewood for private customers with an invoice created from the sale, and its payment does not book the revenue a second time either. In the Field plan the lots already produce the timber evidence under § 34b EStG for each financial year (Wirtschaftsjahr), split into ordinary use and calamity, as a PDF for your tax advisor.
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EUDR declaration for your wood
In the timber lot list, “EUDR · Wood declaration template” builds the declaration from the lots you declare yourself, as a simplified declaration for micro and small enterprises or as a due diligence statement. Only the stands the wood comes from are geolocated, and “EUDR · GeoJSON of the stands” delivers their outlines as a file for the EU information system. If your forest owners' association (Forstbetriebsgemeinschaft) submits the declaration, you file its numbers under “EUDR declarations”, and FarmManager prints an evidence sheet for the buyer who takes the wood first.
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Forest measures and bark-beetle inspection
You enter work in the forest like any other operation in the field record, from planting to final felling and always with the stand where the work was done. For a planting, each delivery from the nursery gets a row of its own with region of provenance and master certificate. “Plan bark-beetle inspections” creates a recurring task with a checklist on the stand, and from an infestation “Create calamity lot” makes a timber lot in which cause and day of damage are already filled in. A task stays open in your list until the date of the report to the tax office is entered on the lot.
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Safe work at the felling site and the forest edge
In the “Work orders” tab of the woodland parcel you write the order for a felling, with the felling area, access for ambulances and timber trucks, and the team. The order shows who lacks the chainsaw course and points to the accident prevention regulation for forestry (VSG 4.3) if someone works alone and no emergency call system is noted. Where the forest borders a road or a house, you document every tree inspection with finding and photos in the “Roadside tree safety” tab, and the inspection report as a PDF summarises a period.
Obligations FarmManager documents for you
- EUDR declaration for wood from your own timber lots, with GeoJSON of the stands
- Evidence sheet for the EUDR declaration, for the first buyer of the wood
- Timber evidence for each financial year under § 34b EStG, with the flat-rate business expenses under § 51 EStDV for up to 50 ha of woodland
- Salvage wood with an open task until the report to the tax office
- Work order for forestry work under the accident prevention regulation for forestry (VSG 4.3)
- Roadside tree safety at the forest edge with inspections, measures and an inspection report as a PDF
- Game damage with notice deadline under § 34 BJagdG and the notice to the authority as a PDF
- Plant protection in the forest and on log piles with a BVL register check
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Field Lite
Forest stands, forest map, timber lots with timber evidence, forest measures, work orders, roadside tree safety, game damage and the EUDR declarations are already included in the Field (Lite) plan, as a yearly subscription for farms without livestock.
The Business (Pro) plan adds timber sales with booking of the revenue, finances and forest management planning with allowable cut and age classes. If you keep animals, you need at least the Farm (Basic) plan.
Consultation and setup are free and included in every plan – from the Business (Pro) plan, connecting your machines as well.
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Frequently Asked Questions
If you sign up with the Field (Lite) plan, the setup asks whether you manage woodland. If you say yes, the activity area “Forestry / woodland” is added to the farm profile. A pure forestry farm then removes “Cropping / Land” there and afterwards sees its fields, the forest stands, the timber lots, plant protection and the EUDR declarations in the menu, but not the fertilizer demand assessment.
On the timber lot you choose how the wood is placed on the market: with your own declaration, through the forest owners' association (Forstbetriebsgemeinschaft) with its name and number, sold standing, or for own use. Lots that the forest owners' association declares stay out of your own declaration. You file your declaration under “EUDR declarations” with reference and verification number, and FarmManager prints an evidence sheet from it as a PDF for the first buyer.
A timber sale combines the lots that one buyer settles on one day, for example the spruce piles the sawmill collected in March. For each lot you enter the mill measurement, the mill's quality class, the price per solid cubic metre and the deductions, and below each row you see the shrinkage compared with the measurement in the forest. The revenue is booked once as income with the income type “Timber sales”. Timber sales are available from the Business (Pro) plan.
No. For each financial year (Wirtschaftsjahr) of your farm, the timber evidence shows how much wood was sold and how much you took for yourself, split into ordinary use and calamity. With up to 50 ha of woodland it also contains the flat-rate business expenses under § 51 EStDV. It is a calculation aid that you hand to your tax advisor as a PDF.