How multilingual farm teams can share one record

A walkthrough, from a Spanish voice note in the field to an English entry on the manager's dashboard.

On a lot of operations, half the team speaks English and the other half speaks Spanish. Most days that works fine. But when details pass through a quick text, a hallway conversation or a translation done on the fly, something gets lost. Which block? Was it sprayed or just scheduled? Did irrigation actually go off?

Those small gaps turn into real questions later, and nobody can say for sure what was done.

In this demo, our Founding Account Executive, Brittany Mumma, shows how Tellia lets every crew member record in their own language while managers read the same information in theirs.

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One observation, recorded in Spanish

Carla Siguenza, our Head of Operations, steps in as a crew member and records a field observation in Spanish, just as a crew member would at the end of a shift.

On Brittany's English dashboard, the entry shows up on that day. When she opens the crop journal, everything Carla said is there in English:

• She was talking about block 7.

• An herbicide application was done.

• Harvest had started.

• Irrigation on block 7 was turned off for dry-down.

Carla didn't have to switch languages, and Brittany didn't have to ask anyone to translate. Both of them are looking at the same record.

Why it matters for multilingual farm teams

When people can speak in the language they're most comfortable with, they give more detail. They don't shorten what they saw to fit a language they're less sure of, and the record is more complete because of it.

Managers get something just as important: a written record they can go back to. If there's ever a question about what was completed or observed, the answer isn't a memory of a conversation. It's in the crop journal, dated, in both languages.

Your crew already knows what's happening in the field. Tellia makes sure everyone can read it, whatever language they speak.

Want to see it set up for your operation? Schedule a demo here.