Introduction to the Crop Rotations tab

The Crop Rotation tab shows all the crops that were planted in your fields during each of the growing seasons in your FarmQA account. This feature can be used to help you avoid disease and pest pressure by identifying fields that have been planted in the same crop multiple years in a row during the crop planning phase. Check out the article below to learn more about the Crop Rotation tab's functionality.  

Navigating the Crop Rotation tab

Sorting by Organization and Growing Season

Export to Excel

How to use the Crop Rotations tab to help with crop planning

Navigating the Crop Rotation tab

• Log in to your FarmQA account from your web browser.
• Click on the Fields icon, then navigate to the Crop Rotation tab. 
• Information in the Crop Rotation tab is sorted by the following columns:

1. Organization: contains the branch of your enterprise that each field is in.
2. Field: contains the name/ID of each field.
3. Area: contains the total area of each field. 
4. Growing Season: columns for each growing season in your account will populate with the name of the crop that was planted in each field in that year. The color assigned to each crop will appear to the left of its name.

• NOTE: all columns can be sorted by clicking the column header. Columns can be sorted in Ascending or Descending order.

• How you view your Crop Rotation page can also be adjusted by using either of the toggle options in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
  • Toggling the Show crop colors switch lets you show the colors assigned to your crops or not (pictured below).

• The Show varieties option allows for the crop variety assigned to each field to be displayed instead of the crop. If no variety was assigned and you toggle Show varieties on, just the crop name will be displayed.

Sorting by Organization and Growing Season

Your Crop Rotation page can be sorted by either Organization or Growing Season to get a better idea of what your crop rotations look like in different branches of your organization or at different times. Read the instructions below to learn how this sorting can be done. 

• Log in to your FarmQA account from the web app and navigate back to the Crop Rotations tab.
• Click on the column header you want to sort by and drag it up to the blue Drag a column header here to group its column bar at the top of the screen (pictured below).

• Your crop rotation table will now be sorted by the levels in the column you selected. In the example below, the crop rotation table is now sorted by ND Farm and MN Farm, providing a clearer overview of what's happening in each organization branch (pictured below). 

Export to Excel

You have the option of exporting your Crop Rotation page to an Excel file if there are any other functions or editing you'd like to do to this table. Read the instructions below to learn how to perform a Crop Rotation page export to Excel.

• Log in to your FarmQA account from the web app and navigate back to the Crop Rotations tab.
• Use the Columns dropdown menu to edit out the columns you don't want included in your Excel spreadsheet. Unchecking the box next to the column name will remove that column from the crop rotation table. Click OK to finalize your changes (pictured below).

• Click the Excel button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen to download your spreadsheet. 
• Your exported Excel sheet should look like the one pictured below. 

How to use the Crop Rotations tab to help with crop planning

Use the Crop Rotations tab to help with your crop planning by sorting your table by a desired year. This will give you a sorted table of the fields that planted specific crops in each year, as well as give you the total area that crop was planted in that year. Check out the instructions below to learn how to do this.

• Log in to your FarmQA account from the web app and navigate back to the Crop Rotations tab.
• Drag the header of the year you want to sort by into the Drag a column header here to group its column bar (pictured below).

• Your fields are now all sorted by your chosen year. If you still want to see the year column in the crop rotation layout, click on the Columns dropdown menu, then check the box next to the column (pictured below). 

• Click the OK button to save your changes. 
• Your crop rotation table now has the column you sorted by added for quick reference.
• Now your sorted crop rotation table can be exported to Excel by clicking the Export to Excel button (pictured below).

• The exported Excel sheet of your crop rotation table should look something like the sheet pictured below.