The short version. farmers.guide gives you timing and estimates built from weather records, forecasts and general extension guidance. It can be wrong. It is not a substitute for looking at your own ground, for your county extension office, or for the label on a product. What you plant, spray, water and harvest, and when, is your decision.
1. Agreeing to these terms
These terms cover the farmers.guide website, web app and phone apps (the "service"), run by farmers.guide ("we", "us"). By using the service you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use it. You must be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live, to open an account.
2. What the service is, and is not
The service works out frost dates, planting windows, field work, water needs and harvest timing from public climate records, weather forecasts and published guidance, and sends you alerts about them. It also reads photos of crops and describes what they show.
- It is information, not professional advice. Nothing in the service is agronomic, engineering, financial, legal or safety advice for your particular operation.
- Much of it is estimated. Soil temperature, soil moisture, ground conditions, crop stage and harvest dates are calculated from weather. They are not measured in your field.
- Weather forecasts fail. A frost can arrive that was not forecast, and one that was forecast may not come. Alerts can be late or not arrive at all, because of your phone, your carrier, your email provider or a fault of ours. Do not rely on the service as your only warning.
- Photo checks are an AI model's reading of a picture. They can be wrong or miss something. They are not a diagnosis. Confirm any problem with your county extension office, a crop advisor or a lab before you treat it.
- The label is the law. The service does not recommend pesticide products or rates. Always read and follow the label and your local rules.
3. Your account
You sign in with a code sent to your email address or mobile number. Keep access to that inbox or phone to yourself; what happens under your account is your responsibility. Tell us at support@farmers.guide if you think someone else has got in.
4. Using it fairly
Do not use the service to break the law, to send us anything you have no right to send, to probe or overload our systems, to copy the service's data in bulk, or to resell it without our written agreement. We may limit or close accounts that do.
5. What you put in
Your farm records and photos stay yours. You give us permission to store and process them to run the service for you, including sending photos to the AI provider named in our privacy page. You can delete them at any time.
6. Free and Pro
The free plan has limits, shown in the app. Pro is a subscription that renews each month or year until you cancel.
- Bought on the web: payment is taken by Stripe. Cancel under More, then Your plan; Pro stays on through the period you have paid for.
- Bought in a phone app: payment is taken by Apple or Google under their terms. Cancel in your App Store or Google Play subscription settings.
- Price changes: we will tell you before a new price applies to you.
- Refunds: payments are not refundable except where the law requires it. If you believe you were charged in error, write to us. For purchases in a phone app, refunds are handled by Apple or Google.
We may change what the free and Pro plans include. If a change takes away something you have paid for, you may cancel and we will refund the unused part of that period.
7. Text messages
If you turn on text alerts or sign in by text, the text message terms apply. Message and data rates may apply.
8. Other people's data and services
Climate and forecast data come from NOAA, the National Weather Service and NASA. Crop guidance draws on land-grant extension publications, USDA and the FAO. None of them endorse the service or are responsible for it. The phone apps are also subject to Apple's and Google's terms; Apple and Google are not parties to these terms and have no duty to support the app.
9. No warranty
The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, timely or free of errors.
10. Limit of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost crops, lost yield, lost profit, or any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss arising from your use of the service or from relying on anything it tells you. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or 50 US dollars. Some places do not allow some of these limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
11. Ending it
You may stop using the service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end the service, or your access to it, if you break these terms or if we stop offering it; if we end a paid plan early for a reason that is not your doing, we will refund the unused part.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its rules on conflicts of law. Disputes will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Texas, unless the law where you live requires otherwise.
13. Changes
We may update these terms. If a change matters, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. Using the service after that means you accept the new terms.