Zone Designer overview

Zone Designer is where you build and refine management zones: areas of a field that you treat differently because the data says they behave differently. You build zones from satellite imagery or soil test results, or you upload a zone file you already have. From there, zones feed prescriptions and zone soil sampling. This article is the map. Each step links to its own guide.

Management zones come with the Basic and Advanced Prescriptions add-ons, or you can add them to your account on their own. See Compare Basic and Advanced Prescriptions.

Build management zones

• How zone-building methods work — See how Equal Interval, Quantiles, Natural Breaks, Custom, and Auto divide the same field, so you can pick the method that fits your data.
• Create a management zone — Build zones from one satellite image, several images at once, or your soil test results.
• Upload a zone map — Bring in a zone file you already have instead of building one.
• Use your compaction data to create variable rate compaction prescriptions — Turn soil compaction readings into zones. Requires the Compaction feature.

Edit management zones

• Edit management zones — Reassign zones, lay a grid over the field, or split zones by image or drawn shape.

Use your zones

• Write a prescription from a management zone — Set a rate for each zone and download a shapefile for your monitor.
• Associating soil samples with a zone — Tie soil results to the zones they came from.
• Prescriptions overview — The full path from zone to exported prescription.