Working with Growing Seasons

FarmQA uses growing seasons to group your field assignments, scouting reports, and recommendations temporally, ultimately so that you can better organize and access your data. FarmQA does not automatically create new growing seasons year after year, so this is a manual account maintenance process that account administrators need to do. Making sure that your growing seasons are properly setup is critical to making sure the data in your FarmQA account is stored properly. Refer to the article below to learn how to setup and properly configure your growing seasons in FarmQA. 

Creating a new growing season

Assigning growing season states

Creating a new growing season

• Login to the FarmQA web app if you aren't already. 
• Click on the Settings icon, then click on the Growing seasons tab. 
• Click on the blue Add button at the bottom of the screen and select an option for creating a new growing season: 
  • Duplicate growing season  creates a new growing season that is a copy of the growing season you have selected in the left-hand side of the screen. Your selected growing season will be highlighted light blue. Duplicating a growing season will copy all the field crop assignments in your selected growing season to your new growing season, creating an exact copy. 
  • New growing season  creates a growing season where all your field boundaries are brought over with none of the pre-existing crop assignments brought over. 
• Complete the following steps setup your new growing season (pictured below):
  1. Assign a Name to your growing season. This will typically be the year of the growing season.
  2. Add a Description for your growing season (optional).
  3. Use the State dropdown to assign a state to your growing season. Learn more about assigning growing season states in the section below.
  4. Set Start date and End dates for your growing season. 

• When you've completed the above steps, click the Save button at the top of the screen to save your new growing season. 

Assigning growing season states

• Login to the FarmQA web app if you aren't already.
• Click on the Settings icon, then go to the Growing seasons tab.
• Click on the growing season you want to edit. The growing season you're editing will be highlighted a light blue. Use the State dropdown menu to assign a growing season state (pictured below).

• FarmQA stores growing seasons in the following states:
  • Draft: Intended to be used as a "crop planning" state for future growing seasons. Crop assignments can be made but will not be visible within the Scouting app.
  • Active: To be used for the "current" growing season, or the season where scouting data should actively be stored in. Most users will typically only have one Active growing season at a time.
  • Archived: This is intended to be used for historic seasons. Set a season to Archived when new scouting data no longer needs to be associated to the season.

Please contact FarmQA Support with any further questions