Working with Advanced Prescriptions – FarmQA

What's the difference between Basic and Advanced Prescriptions?

You'll have to have Basic Prescriptions turned on in your account before you can add on Advanced Prescriptions.

Refer to the chart below to learn more about the differences between the Basic Prescriptions and Advanced Prescriptions add-ons:

Functionality	Basic Prescriptions ($1500/yr)	Advanced Prescriptions ($1000/yr)
Create management zones from your soil and imagery-based data	X	X
Write prescriptions based on the management zones in your account	X	X
Export an individual PDF of the prescriptions you write	X	X
Export prescriptions to a shapefile that's ready to be uploaded to the monitor of your choosing	X	X
Create soil nutrient maps from soil test results		X
Write formulas		X
Use formulas to create zone maps from spatial data, including management zones, soil results, and satellite imagery		X
Run multiple formulas simultaneously		X
Run formulas on multiple fields at the same time		X
Export prescriptions to map books to share with your growers		X

Available from the: WEB APP

Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN, AGRONOMIST

Click on the Soil icon, then make sure you're in the Samples tab.
Click on the field you want to create a nutrient map for, then click on the Create soil nutrient map button (pictured below).
Fill out the following information on the Create soil nutrient map page (pictured below):
1. Toggle on the Use management zone switch to tie your soil test results to an existing management zone. If you use this toggle, you'll use the Management zone dropdown to choose the management zone you want use for creating your nutrient map
2. Use the Growing season dropdown to choose the growing season you want to pull soils data from.
3. Set a Start date and End date to create a time range to pull soils data from. Use this if you have multiple sets of soils data within a growing season and only want to pull from a single collection period.
4. Choose the Depth(s) you want to pull soils data from.
5. Give your soil nutrient map a Name.
6. Toggle on the Automatically assign zones to the soil samples based on the soil sample locations toggle to associate zones with your soil samples. These samples will be associated with the zones in the Management zone you selected in the dropdown in step 1.
7. Toggle on the Overwrite any existing management zone information on the soil samples switch if you'd like to replace the zones and associated values in an existing zone in your fields with the ones created in this operation.

After you've filled in this information, click on the Create button at the bottom of the window.

Available from the: WEB APP

Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN, AGRONOMIST

In the Home page, click on the field you want to run a formula on.
Click on the Soil results dropdown under the LAYERS header, and click on the map layer you want to run a formula on (pictured below).

In the Process formula window, click on the Add formulas button to select the formula you want to run on this soil nutrient map (pictured below).

In the Add formulas window, check the box next to the formula(s) you want to run on this soil nutrient map.
Click on the Add button after you've selected your formula(s) (pictured below).

Click on the Process button to run your formula(s) on your field (pictured below).

Available from the: WEB APP

Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN, AGRONOMIST

In the Home page, locate and click on the field that contains the map you want to edit.
Under the LAYERS dropdown, click on the Soil results button and click on the folder that contains your map.
Click into the map you want to edit, then click on the Edit icon at the top of the screen (pictured below).

You will now be redirected to the 'Zone Designer' page where you can edit your existing zone map.

Available from the: WEB APP

Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN, AGRONOMIST

In the Home page, locate and click on the field you want to view a map for.
Under the LAYERS dropdown, click on the Soil results button and click on the folder that contains your map (pictured below).

In the Export window, check the Export to shapefile box, then check the Collect geometries box to prepare your file for export (pictured below).