Adding Products via the EPA Look-up
Adding products in FarmQA
Available from the: WEB APP
Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN
- Click on the Advice
icon.
- Click the New product
button, then click the + New product option.
You should complete the following for all products in your FarmQA account:
- Give the product a Name.
- Use the Type dropdown to choose the type of product you're creating.
- Use the Rate box and Units dropdown to set a default application rate for your product.
To fully fill out and report your product information in your application records, fill out the following:
- Add the product's Registered name.
- Fill out the name of the product's Manufacturer.
- Input the product's Registration number.
- Use the Application method dropdown to choose the method used to apply this product by default.
- Use the Signal word dropdown to choose a warning word that will be associated with your product.
Certain types of products require users to input additional information to get them setup properly in FarmQA. Refer to the sub-sections below to learn how to properly setup each of these types of products.
Dry Fertilizer/Manure
- Set the Density (lb/ft³) for your fertility or manure product.
- Add the Percent NPK by weight.
- Under the Micro-nutrients dropdown, click the Add a micro-nutrient button to add a micro-nutrient to your fertilizer or manure product.
Liquid Fertilizer/Manure
- Put in the Weight per volume for your fertility or manure product.
- Add the Percent NPK by weight.
- Under the Micro-nutrients dropdown, click the Add a micro-nutrient button to add a micro-nutrient to your fertilizer or manure product.
Adding products via the EPA Look-up
Available from the: WEB APP
Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN, AGRONOMIST
- Click on the Advice
- Click on the dropdown arrow next to the + New product button and select the +Import from EPA option (pictured below).
- On the following screen you can search products in the EPA registry by inputting one of the following search terms:
- The product's EPA registry number.
- The product's common name.
- The name of one of the active chemical ingredients in the product.
- After finding the product you want to add, click the Add product
icon to the left of the product. You can then repeat the process before importing a group of products in bulk.
- After finding all relevant products you want to add, click the Add products button at the bottom right-hand corner of the window (pictured below).
- The following product information will automatically be input for your imported product(s):
- Type (Adjuvant, Biological, Desiccant, Fertilizer, Fungicide, Herbicide, Insecticide, or Other)
- Name and Registered Name
- Manufacturer
- Registration Number
- Label (added as a link to the label on the EPA site)
- You can manually add in the following product information for the product:
- Target pest or disease
- Rate and units for the rate (i.e. setting the rate of Propiconazole to 3 fl oz/ac)
- Preharvest interval (days)
- Rainfast (hours)
- Re-entry interval (hours)
- Associated crops
- Application method
- Application period
Creating blends
Available from the: WEB APP
Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN, AGRONOMIST
- Click on the Advice
icon, then click on the Products tab.
- Click on the blue New product
button at the top of the screen, then click on the
New product button in the add product menu (pictured below).
- Use the Type dropdown to select Blend as the product type (pictured below).
-
Fill in the following information to get your blend setup (pictured below):
- Name your blend.
- Set the Rate for your blend.
- Use the Units dropdown to set the unit for your application rate.
- Add any necessary Notes to associate with your blend.
- Once you've added in this information, click the Add products button to add fertility products to your blend (pictured below). You'll only be able to add fertilizer products that you've already added to your account to your blends.
- Check the boxes next to the fertilizer products that you want to add to your blend, then click the Add button at the bottom of the screen (pictured below).
- To finish setting up your blend, set the Percent that each product in your blend makes up of the blend total under the Products section of your page (pictured below).
- Click the Save
button to save your blend.
Importing products to FarmQA
If you have a list of products that you use stored in a Excel spreadsheet or something similar, those products can be added directly from that spreadsheet to your FarmQA Account. Users cannot perform this action currently, but you can email your spreadsheet to support@farmqa.com and have the support team upload it to your account.
The easiest way to format your products for an import from Excel is to use the Product Import Template spreadsheet attached to this page. Each row in the sheet corresponds to a product you wish to import. Each column in the Product Import Template spreadsheet corresponds to a parameter used for your product in the FarmQA system.
Here are some tips for formatting your Excel sheet for product import:
- Each product you import from the Product Import Template spreadsheet must contain a ProductName. All other columns can be left blank if desired.
- If you're confused about what each column title refers to, look up a product already imported into FarmQA. The product parameter names in FarmQA closely correspond with the column names in the Product Import Template spreadsheet. For example, the RateQuantity column in the Excel sheet will be used to fill in the application Rate for the product in FarmQA.
- Use the Values sheet in the Product Import Template spreadsheet as a guide for how to fill in the ProductType, Units, ApplicationMethod, and ApplicationPeriods columns. Columns like ProductType will only read in certain values like Desiccant or Herbicide to match up with values in the FarmQA system.
- You can setup any number of ingredients in the sheet by using the IngredientName, IngredientPct, and IngredientGroup column headers. You'll have to add a number at the of the column header for each ingredient you add. For example, if you're adding three ingredients to your product, you'll need to title your ingredient name columns IngredientName1, IngredientName2, and IngredientName3.
- You can specify multiple crops to apply this product to in the CropNames column by separating the crop names with a | .
Once the spreadsheet is ready, contact the FarmQA Support team and we'll upload it to your account on your behalf.