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Tobacco crop lot and revision records for AI

A crop lot can be split after harvest while a later report still shows the original total.

By Fiund · Updated 2026-11-05

NAICS 111910 · Tobacco Farming

A crop lot can be split after harvest while a later report still shows the original total. USDA publishes crop production summaries that include tobacco. A grower can build an invented records exercise about lot identity and revisions without sharing a farm, customer or product process. USDA NASS crop production summary

Use two dummy lots and a dated split. Provide one authorized follow-up and a later correction to a different lot. Ask which quantity and source are supported at a selected date, and which field still needs review. Keep harvest and subsequent recorded quantities separate, with artificial units and values.

Do not share real production figures, farm locations, buyers, contract specifications or plant records. This is a documentation test with no crop-processing or sales task.

Describe a crop records benchmark

Original Fiund exercise

A split lot and another lot's correction need separate quantity histories

A completely fictional crop-record fixture uses arbitrary units, no physical product or processing. It includes no farm, buyer, contract, sales or product-use information.

Fictional records supplied to the evaluator
RecordSourceWhat it records
TC1Day-1 harvest registerLot A=100 practice units; lot B=50. Separate original source references.
TC2Day-3 splitA split into A1=60 and A2=40. Approved record says children replace A for current inventory, retaining A as parent history.
TC3Day-4 correctionB's original quantity corrected to 48, explicitly limited to B. A2 follow-up field remains unreviewed; no separate later quantity supplied.

Question for the model

What quantities form the day-4 current practice inventory, and which historical or unresolved records must stay separate?

Show the reference answer and checks

TC2 makes A1's 60 and A2's 40 the current children replacing A's 100-unit parent, while TC3 replaces B's 50 with 48. The current documented total is 148 practice units without counting parent A again. TC1 remains harvest history, and A2's unreviewed follow-up does not supply a new quantity. B's correction cannot be spread across A's children merely to force a different total.

  • Counting a parent lot alongside the children that replace it in current inventory.
  • Applying another lot's correction or treating an unreviewed follow-up as a measured change.

Fields to preserve

Lot parent and child identity
Preserves split lineage.
Reference date and current-versus-historical role
Defines the inventory view.
Correction target and follow-up status
Limits quantity updates.

Test another case

Ask for day 2, before the split and correction. Require A=100 and B=50 rather than later reconstructed values.

Use original fictional records only. Exclude actual production, locations, buyers and contract specifications; no processing or sales task is included.

Download this fictional example and answer key (JSON)

Discuss a contribution

Describe the sources you control, the task they could support and what has already been checked. Use the existing-data assessment for an archive or the collection brief for a new recording project. The contributor agreement defines Fiund’s licensing authority and compensation. A guide or fictional exercise does not establish an accepted collection or a sale.

Primary sources and further reading