January - December 2024 – FarmQA

FarmQA's new Dashboard feature has been released. The Dashboard can be accessed from the Home page in the Web App. A user's Dashboard can include panels that contain the following information:
- Weather
- Field Journals
- Analytics
- Crop Acreage
- Tasks
Chatbot feature has been released. Access the Chatbot from the FarmQA Web App and ask it any question you might have about using FarmQA.
Blend pricing can now be seen in crop plans and completed recommendations.
Users can now select the geomarker layer they want to add their sampling points to from the soil sampling Tasks.

Bug fixes relating to:
- Upcoming additions to crop planning.
- FarmQA's chatbot (currently in BETA).
- Public API

Soils data can be uploaded individually to fields.
Field boundaries from previous growing seasons can be easily synced to your current growing season.

A 'Soil Sampler' role has been added to FarmQA. Users with a 'Soil Sampler' role have functionality that is focused on completing soil sampling related tasks in the FarmQA web and mobile app.
Updates have been made to the user interface users use to create management zones and write prescriptions. Users will now be directed to the 'Zone designer' page to work on management zone creation and prescription writing.

Re-entry interval (REI) and pre-harvest interval (PHI) are now viewable in the Home page when you click on your fields. REI and PHI warnings will be shown at the top of the field information pane.

Users can now select which map provider they want to use when choosing directions to a field.
Warning notices are shown for fields that are within an REI interval for chemical products applied in a recent recommendation.
Preharvest interval (PHI) data based on a field's recommendation history can be accessed from the FarmQA mobile app.
Users can specify crop and variety information when completing a Plant task.

Tasks can now be added to fields from the Home page in the FarmQA web app.
Planting tasks can now be completed from the FarmQA web app.
The maximum number of reports that can be included in a consolidated report has been increased from 25 to 40.
The window for including satellite images in a scouting report has been increased from 7 to 10.

Full page field maps with scouting locations can now be included in your scouting report exports.

Submitted scouting reports can now be edited from the FarmQA mobile app.
Users can now select multiple satellite images when generating zones. FarmQA will use these images to create an 'average' satellite image to create a zone off of.
Multiple zone cutting and splitting tools have been added to the FarmQA management zone editor, including cutting zones based on images, cutting zones based on shapes, and using lines to split zones.

Internal notes are now supported in the FarmQA mobile app.
Users can now track their heading when they are creating and editing fields in the FarmQA mobile app.

Internal notes have been added as a feature. Internal notes are only available to users who have Internal permissions set within their FarmQA account. Use Internal notes to share information between internal members of your organization while limiting access to other users.
Users can now uncommit a crop plan.

The My Profile button has been moved to the upper right-hand corner of the screen next to the Growing Season and Support buttons.

Users can now create Prescription profiles, which can help streamline the workflow involved in created prescriptions for their fields.
The most recent Planet image will be displayed in the field map in scouting reports that have been exported to PDF, giving users another way to access valuable satellite images.

Spray records can now be created and viewed in the FarmQA mobile app.
A field map image can now be included when users export a recommendation to a PDF.

Crop planning has been added as a new feature in FarmQA. Users can create custom crop plans that include each step in your crop plan and the products that they'll be applying to their fields in each step of the plan. Once plans have been created and applied to fields, users can create recommendations and tasks from their plans that can help them stay on task during the growing season.