Soil nutrient maps come with map books and with the Basic and Advanced Prescriptions add-ons. See Compare Basic and Advanced Prescriptions.
Turn a field's soil test results into a map of each nutrient, so you and your growers can see where levels run high or low. Share the maps with growers in a map book, or use them as the starting point for a prescription. You pick the season, dates, and depths to pull results from, and you can tie the map to an existing management zone so results are summarized zone by zone.
| Action | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Create a soil nutrient map | Web | Enterprise Administrator, Agronomist |
| View and download a soil nutrient map | Web | Enterprise Administrator, Agronomist, Technician+, Technician, Soil Sampler, Operator |
For every role and what it can do, see Breakdown of user permissions.
Create the map
- Select Soil, then select the Samples tab.
- Select the field, then select Create soil nutrient map.
- On the Create soil nutrient map page, set what the map pulls from:
- Use management zone — turn on to summarize results by zone, then choose the zone in Management zone.
- Growing season — the season to pull soil results from.
- Start date and End date — use these when a season has more than one set of results and you want only one collection period.
- Depth(s) — the sampling depths to include.
- Name — a name for the map.
- If you're using a management zone, set how samples relate to it:
- Turn on Automatically assign zones to the soil samples based on the soil sample locations to tie each sample to the zone it sits in.
- Turn on Overwrite any existing management zone information on the soil samples to replace zone assignments from an earlier run.
- Select Create.
Get nutrient maps automatically when results come in
You don't have to build every map by hand. FarmQA can create nutrient maps as soon as soil results arrive:
- Results you import from a file — turn on nutrient map creation in your soil sample import profile. Each import then builds maps for the fields in the file. See Create a soil sample import profile.
- Results from an AgVise integration — nutrient maps are created for the fields as AgVise results arrive. See Automatic lab submission and results import.
Related articles
- Batch printing map books
- Run a formula on a field
- Associating soil samples with a zone
- Create a management zone