FarmQA Recommendations Overview

Overview

Within FarmQA a user can write product recommendations. In order to write recommendations, a user must first create a list of products within FarmQA and use those products to setup tank mixes. Users can then write recommendations using either their individual products or their pre-made tank mixes. Completed recommendations will be stored within FarmQA Controller and can optionally be sent to growers or other internal users as a PDF. Refer to the step-by-step instructions below for how to do this.

Contents

• Creating and Importing Products
• Creating Tank Mixes (Optional)
• Writing Recommendations
• Viewing Recommendations

Creating and Importing Products

Before you start writing recommendations, you'll need a list of products that will be used in a given growing season, like Dicamba and 2-4,D. Products can be added via an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) look up tool, imported through a spreadsheet, or manually added within FarmQA.  If you want a more detailed look into the ways you can add products to FarmQA, refer to this article.

• Log in to your FarmQA Controller account.
• Click on the Advice  icon on the left-hand side of the screen.
• Navigate to the Products tab at the top of the screen.
• In the center panel, there is a blue drop-down menu (pictured below). The menu gives you the following three options for adding products to your account: 
  • New Product: Manually enter all of the information about a product.
  • Import from the EPA: Search for a product in our EPA database. Products can be searched for by product name or by the name of active chemicals in the product. 
  • Import from spreadsheet: see instructions here.

Creating Tank Mixes (optional)

After products are added, they can be combined into common tank mixes and saved by crop. This makes it easier to write recommendations in-season while using the app. 

• Log in to your FarmQA Controller account if you aren't already.
• Click on the Advice icon, then navigate to the Mixes tab.
• From this screen you can search, sort, and filter existing mixes along with editing them.
• Additionally, you can create new mixes by clicking the New mix button in the top right-hand corner of the screen (see below).

• Start creating your new mix by giving it a name. This is open ended, but examples could include "Post emergence weed mix" or "Peas - white mold suppression".
• Next, include the instructions for product application. These will be used to populate the Recommendation note section in the final step. 
• Click Add products option at the top of the screen. This will bring up a list of products that can be searched and filtered down. Multi-select and click Select within the product list after finding the products to combine, and click Add to add these products to your mix (pictured below).

• Note the mix order is the order the products are shown in the list. They can be re-ordered using drag and drop.
• Finally, the product details can be edited in the right-hand pane. For example, adjust the rate and then click Save. 

Writing Recommendations

The final step in the process is to actually write the recommendation. Recommendations can be written either in FarmQA Controller or FarmQA Scouting. Refer to the instructions below to learn how to write recommendations in each tool.

Recommendations in FarmQA Scouting

• Open your FarmQA Scouting app.
• Recommendations can either be started from the field list view, the Action button on the map tab, or the Action  button on the advice tab.
• Click the Create a recommendation  button (pictured below).

• After entering the create recommendation screen, you can perform the following actions:
  • Field: by default the field you selected from the map or list will be associated to the recommendation. You can also select other fields to group into the recommendation. 

• • Products: you can choose a mix to apply to the recommendation or add products individually. After selecting a mix, you can adjust the rates and notes per product. Click Done to add your mix and/or products to your recommendation.

• • Timing: you can set a time range and a priority level per recommendation using the built in calendar picker.
  • Notes: Add notes that will apply to the recommendation.

• When completed, click Save draft or Submit to save your recommendation. Selecting Save draft will save your changes and allow you to come back later and complete the recommendation, while selecting Submit will send your recommendation to your FarmQA account where members of your enterprise can actively view it. 

Recommendations in FarmQA Controller

• Log in to your FarmQA Controller account.
• Click on the Advice  icon.
• Under the Recommendations tab, click on the New recommendation button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen (pictured below). 

• The steps for adding a recommendation in Controller are the same as adding one in Scouting. Follow those steps to complete your recommendation.

Viewing Recommendations

Completed recommendations can be viewed either within the scouting app or within FarmQA Controller. To do this follow the instructions bellow.

FarmQA Scouting Instructions

• Log in to your FarmQA Scouting app if you aren't already.
• In the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, click on the Advice tab.
  • Recommendations will either be displayed as Recommendations in progress or Past recommendation depending if they are drafts or not.
• Click on a past report Recommendation, choose the PDF layout of your preference, and then click Open PDF. The PDF will include product totals based on the known acreage of fields.

• Selecting Open PDF will open a PDF copy of your recommendation in a web browser window on your mobile device.  

FarmQA Controller Instructions

• Log in to your FarmQA Controller account if you aren't already.
• Click on the Advice icon.
• In the Recommendations tab, select the recommendation(s) you wish to export.
• Click the Download  icon, then select how you want to export your recommendations.
  • Selecting the Export  option will download a PDF or Excel file of your selected recommendations.
  • Selecting the Share  option will allow you to email the PDF report to a desired recipient.

• Note that recommendations can also be multi-selected and exported in bulk from the list view shown above. This allows for a weeks worth of recommendations to be sent in one PDF file.
• Find below an example of what exported PDF and Excel files will look like.

Please contact FarmQA Support with any further questions