For information about Farming ticks, see Farming training/Growth guide.
The Farming Timer is an upcoming update that features a timer that alerts you when your farming crops are fully grown. [1] It's exact mechanics are as of yet unknown.
It came in third in the first RuneLabs poll, and was originally not planned to be released. Despite this, because it is a relatively small update which wouldn't require much work, as well as the fact that the amount of votes for this idea was close to the amount of votes that the idea in second place had, Jagex stated that they would do this update as well. [2]