Last week, Oracle announced the release of JD Edwards 9.2.5.3. This release includes a swag of functional enhancements across numerous processes and modules and quite a lot of tools updates to Orchestrator. Of particular interest to our clients are three enhancements to the Grower and Grower Contracts & Payments modules. Here’s what each of these enhancements deliver. Allow Harvest Dates to Overlap Previously the one block, or field, could not have start and end dates of separate harvests overlap (apart from using sub-blocks). This will be very useful for crops for which there are overlapping pre and post-harvest activities and costs. Previously, the post-harvest activities and costs would be recorded against the next harvest, or the pre-harvest activities against the prior, accepting that it is directionally correct. Here’s how a typical block and harvest would be set-up now. Here’s how the harvests can now be created, to more accurately reflect the growing cy