"Cohort / product field","Invented first cut","Invented later cut","Your cut record","Basis and instruction" "Example scope","Same fictional cohort","Same fictional cohort","","Invented arithmetic, not experimental output" "Cultivar / system / season","","","","Actual identity required for project use" "Cut identity and retained plant state","First cut","Later regrowth cut","","Describe observed retained plant; no cut recipe" "Gross fresh shoots kg","100","120","","Use same material/wet-mass basis" "Separated total fresh leaves kg","Not recorded","Not recorded","","Accepted leaves below are not automatically total leaf mass" "Separated stems kg","Not recorded","Not recorded","","Do not call all rejected material stems" "Accepted leaves kg","80","70","","Same leaf-only buyer specification in example" "Other accepted product / bunch units","Not assumed","Not assumed","","Separate actual buyer, specification and units" "Grade/rejection reasons","","","","Do not invent categories from a gross-minus-accepted difference" "Remaining occupied area","","","","Actual unit and plant cohort" "Example accepted total across two cuts","150","","","80 + 70; static teaching value; does not recalculate" "Example later minus first gross shoots","20","","","120 - 100; more gross mass" "Example later minus first accepted leaves","-10","","","70 - 80; less accepted leaf product" "Whole-removal alternative","","","","Record crop removal and next-crop-ready boundary separately" "Next decision and owner","","","","Accepted product evidence and retained-area commitment" "Use","Manual record; no formulas","","","Add one column/record per actual cut; do not multiply first-cut output by cut count" "Source context","https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/agronomy/agronomy-10-00830/article_deploy/agronomy-10-00830.pdf ; https://public-pages-files-2025.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.671026/pdf ; https://njaes.rutgers.edu/fs1283/","","",""