What’s New – Release Notes

Reports

Earliest Harvest Date report now available.
Cost analysis report – a total costs table has been added to the bottom of the report.

Seed module

There is now a flat rate option that makes it easy to create seed plans for any type of crop.

Field module

The Field number box has now been made larger to allow long field numbers to be visible. Typically, this box is used to log the official government field identifier.

We have made a number of significant changes to the behaviour of seed plans and the interaction with other parts of the application.  

Crops can now be in multiple seed plans and plans don’t need to be for a specific variety. This allows much greater flexibility for both planning but also during the drilling season as variety decisions change. This change has also meant that the restrictions around editing varieties and other crop attributes that are part of a seed plans has also been removed.  

Stocks of seed are now not automatically created, in line with the broader changes we have made around Stocks, as we move from a virtual stock system to a physical one. Plan requirements can be easily viewed in the Orders part of the Stock module to create orders and to ultimately add the inventory. 

Field Diary

We have made a number of changes in both Tasks and Records to the user interfaces to improve the functionality and the appearance. More input boxes have been added to allow for different information to be captured, selection of specific plans where there is more than one within a task, making abandoning tasks easier and improved filtering. 

We have also new functionality to allow for records to be confirmed, as well as giving greater flexibility to edit records. 

Reports

We have added various new PDF report options for Stock management, product applications, field activities, and cost analysis. 

Map layers

A new function has been added to the Fields view in Map Layers to compare two layers side by side. 

Data imports

A new option has been added the “Map Layers > Generic drawing layer” import called RPA Hedges to import the hedge control file that can be downloaded from the RPA website. This will create a new holding layer in the Map Layers module and will show the hedge positions (dashed line for one-sided hedge, solid line for a double-sided hedge) and the length of the hedge.  

Stocks module

Custom spray products that have been added via the Spray module as part of the plan can now added to product order and added into inventory. Inventory can be copied from a previous year at any point in time, not just at the beginning of the year. The function for this can be found in the top right corner of the Inventory screen.  

Scout App

It is now easier to download cropping years from the main map screen, you can also easily identify which years are already downloaded to the device. 

The load calculator now includes a calculation for how much water is required for the selected fields and how much is required in a part load. 

There are also now additional boxes to allow the recording of temperature and buffer applied. 

Stock Module

Data Download

New excel data exports have been added to download all data for the specific crop year into an excel file.

New SFI Crop

A new crop has been added to allow users to set up SFI crop actions. The crop is called SFI Crop Action and the varieties are the option numbers and a short descriptive text. Please note that this is only for SFI actions that are for “land use”. Actions that are management options are logged in a different way.

A new tab has been added to the top of the Crop editing pane to allow for SFI management options to be recorded. Multiple options can be added and to any crop and these can also be viewed on the map by using the Map Options button the bottom left of the map screens. 

There is also a new PDF report called SFI Summary to support this new functionality.