Zone and composite soil sampling is now available to every QA Advisor by FarmQA account. Soil results now show each value your lab reported in its own column, and prescription PDFs can label zones with rates only.
What's New
QA Advisor by FarmQA web
Zone and composite soil sampling
Plan composite and zone soil sampling tasks in the web app, collect the samples in the QA Advisor by FarmQA mobile app, and have soil nutrient maps built when your lab results arrive.
Soil results that match what your lab reported
Each soil result now has its own column, named for the soil property, symbol, and unit, such as Potassium (K) (ppm). Results with different units or extraction methods stay in separate columns and are never averaged into one value. The Samples list, CSV export, shapefile export, and map popup all use the same columns, so column headers in your exports may look different than before.
See which lab samples didn't import
When a lab result can't come into FarmQA, for example because the lab used a test method FarmQA doesn't map, Settings › Logging lists each rejected sample on that import's row with the reason. An import with some samples rejected shows a warning instead of reading as successful.
Label prescription maps with rates only
When you export a prescription or soil nutrient map to PDF, set Label data to Value only. Each zone shows its rate without its zone name, so a grid sample location number can't be mistaken for a rate. Zones at zero show 0, and a prescription with several products shows one line per product.
More reliable maps on reports
Report maps for fields with many zones now generate faster, so dense maps are less likely to leave a report without its map image.
Bug Fixes
Web
- Field boundary shapefiles with holes now import with each hole in the right place.
- Printed soil result maps show the extraction method only when the mapped layer is a nutrient that has one.
- Soil nutrient maps built from zone samples keep each zone's original name.
- Application record CSV import now matches products whose names contain special characters such as ®, including files saved in Excel's default CSV format.
- Application record CSV import now matches registration-exempt products by name when the registration number column is blank or holds a placeholder such as EXEMPT.
- Formula prescriptions that use interpolated nutrient layers now number zones in rate order.