Weighbridge tickets only help if the plot name is on them
A weighbridge is honest about mass and almost silent about place. If the ticket only carries the farm name, you cannot later say whether the river field or the road field filled that wagon. Yield tracking starts at the ticket window, not in a winter meeting.
Ask the driver—or whoever stands at the kiosk—to write the plot name the crew already uses. “Lower 12” is better than a cadastral number nobody says out loud. If two plots run the same afternoon, do not let the tickets merge because the queue is long. A second line on the same slip is still better than a blank.
When we reconstruct a season, the tickets that already have a plot name take an hour. The tickets that do not send us back to memory, which fades in the same pattern every year: people remember the good field too kindly and the lodged strip not at all.
Keep a carbon or a phone photograph of each ticket in a single envelope labelled with the harvest week. That envelope, not a summary spreadsheet written in January, is what a field performance briefing can actually use.