CERES Production
“ The affordable professional aquaponics farm production prediction and design modeling software"
Everyone can design a farm for a specific plant mix and get valuable growing tips for each plant.
Aquaponics Farm Design Made Easy
Ceres-Production
Design your farm for your specific crop or your available area.
Features
Choose vegetables from over 50 options
5 plant categories, up to 6 plants per category
Climate productivity correction
Productivity database is regularly updated with new plants and productivity data from our lab and farms.
Farm sizing module
Fish engine design module
Metric and Imperial unit systems
Available in 10 languages
In addition, Ceres Production outputs:
Expected productivity and profitability for each plant
Feeding needs for each fish tank.
Mineralization requirement
Weekly seedling requirement
Farm production and revenue summary
Production optimization through growing at variable densities.
What greenhouse size do I need to achieve my production target?
How much space do I need to produce each crop?
How many seedlings do I need to seed weekly?
How does climate affect my production?
How many fish do I need?
How much should I feed the fish daily?
What should be the size of my fish tanks?
What are the best practices for growing each plant?
Easy to use
Guided process
Versatile
50+ plants selection
Informative
Detailed Aquaponics farming info for each plant
Reliable
Based on 10 years of actual production record
Adaptive
Light duration and water temperature correction
Evolutive
New features and plants are regularly added
Flexible
Work on any browser
Language
Available in your preferred language
Set up your preferred unit system.
Environmental setting
Set up your farm’s environmental conditions.
Water temperature and light duration affect plant growth. Set these parameters.
Growlight duration can be set from 6 to 18 hours daily. Ceres computes the plant additional growth rate and therefore decrease the area and number of plants required in your farm. It is recommended to give the plants at least 6 hours of dark per day for cell regeneration.
Water temperature significantly affects plant growth. While air temperature may fluctuate by over 10°C in a day, water temperature changes by only 1°C. Measure the temperature in a nearby large pond or swimming pool to determine this average. The optimum water temperature for lettuce is 16°C to 21°C (60°F and 70°F), with 18°C to 20°C (65°F to 68°F) being ideal. Maintaining this range ensures high dissolved oxygen levels, prevents root rot, and prevents fowering.
Module-1: design the farm on a know area
Define the farm length (FL) and width (FW).
Adjust:
• The width of your growbeds (GBW)
• The width of the growing board (GAW)
• The width of the walkways between lines (WW)
• The width of the side walkways (SW)
• The width of the walkways at the end of the lines (EW)
Ceres advises the suitable number and length of the lines, and provides the growing area.
Production target input
Data input section
Ceres offers a selection of over 50 plants grouped into five families.
Ceres also gives you detailed information related to growing each plant in aquaponics.
Batch small plants include:
• Lettuce: batavia, butterhead, green coral,red coral, green oak, red oak, cos/romaine, frilice, and iceberg,
• vegetables: baby kan lan, pak choy, cabbage, and morning glory
Uo to six different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Germination and nursery efficiency are proposed but can be adjusted.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
Continous small plants include rocket arugula, mizuna, spinach, and watercress.
Up to three different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
The growing plan includes a non productive vegetative period and a productive period.
New plants are prepared an put in the farm while the older plant is still producing, but for some plants there may be a non-productive transition period.
Cooking herbs include chives, parsley, rosemary, mint, thyme, and sage.
Up to four different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
Midsize plants include chili, bell pepper, kale, celery, basil, coriander, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, okra, and edamame.
Up to three different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
The growing plan includes a non productive vegetative period and a productive period.
New plants are prepared an put in the farm while the older plant is still producing, but for some plants there may be a non-productive transition period.
Tall plants include cherry tomato, tomato, cucumber, bitter gourd, squash, eggplant, green beans, pumpkin, melon, watermelon, cannabis vegetative, and cannabis flowering
Up to three different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
The growing plan includes a non productive vegetative period and a productive period.
New plants are prepared an put in the farm while the older plant is still producing, but for some plants there may be a non-productive transition period.
Plant information
Ceres provides detailed aquaponics process information for each plant.
Area tracker
With the Area-to-Crop module, the allocated and remaining area available information are displayed before each plant section.
Module-2: design the farm for a specific production target
Select the farm width (FW).
Adjust:
• The width of your growbeds (GBW)
• The width of the growing board (GAW)
• The width of the walkways between lines (WW)
• The width of the side walkways (SW)
• The width of the walkways at the end of the lines (EW)
Ceres advises the number of lines, line length, and farm length..
Adjust the walkway width between lines for optimal side walkway width.
Mineralization
Ceres computes the mineral requirements for each of your selected crops and advises on mineral requirements for your farm. The minerals released by the fish food is also computed.
Ceres suggests additional supplements if needed.
Design your fish engine
Ceres computes the fish food and fish requirements, and propose a number and size of fish tank. You can adjust these paramaters, as well as the fish tank height. The water level is 20cm below the top of the fish tank.
Ceres provides the fish weight per tank.
Assuming you have 4 fish tanks, you will harvest in the “big fish” tank as necessary during a quarter of the fish lifetime. Then you will replace the fish in this tank with small fingerlings. The next tank becomes you “harvesting tank.
Ceres recommends a feeding rate per tank, based on the fish age, and therefore food consumption.
Ceres will give you an alarm if the quantity of fish per tank is too high.
Optimum seeding plan
To maintain an continous production, you will seed weekly.
Ceres provides the optimum seeding plan for you desired production.
Production and revenue summaries
Ceres finally computes a summary of your farm monthly plant and fish production, and associated revenue.
Customer reviews and feedback
Latest reviews
Ceres Production is exactly what I was looking for
I used Ceres Calculator a few months ago and asked AHAS for a more advanced app to design my farm based on the vegetables I wanted to grow. They did it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ceres Production is totally amazing. And computing the fish food requirement based on the plant needs is definitely the way to go.
Thank you so much.
Response from AHAS
Wade, we are very pleased to know you found Ceres Production useful. Thank you for your feedback and dedication to AHAS apps.
Slow to load, but great results
The app takes almost one minute to fully load on my computer, but once it is loaded, it’s ok.
Your “fish engine” design module is nice.
Thanks for the rapid response and support.
It's working!
I heard about aquaponics, but I did not know how to balance my DIY system. I built it based on advice from the Ceres Calculator, and it works well. I even purchased Ceres Production after that to move to the next level and expand my farm.
Aquaponics is amazing!
Great info on productivity
I wanted to grow the most profitable crops. Ceres Production helped me compare many options. Great feature.
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