eCropScout app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Prairie Farm Club Inc.
First release : 26 Mar 2013
App size: 3.35 Mb
Description
eCropScout is designed to be used by crop consultants, farmers, seed dealers, agronomists and agricultural professionals.
eCropScout has been developed by Prairie Farm Club, Inc; a website used by the agricultural community to deliver real-time crop condition maps. eCropScout is integrated into our website (grainshed.com) to deliver real-time information about crop conditions.
Features
Easy to navigate App for farmers, agronomists and agricultural professionals to save all their information: field scouting, Insect and disease scouting, chemical applications, fertilizer/manure applications, planting data, and harvesting data.
Crop scouts, agronomists and agricultural professionals will scout farm fields and enter data about the field crops. They then can save, email or print the scouting report to their growers.
The App allows importing field maps, Apple Maps, and taking pictures of the field. You can also draw your own maps or draw on any of the imported maps and pictures. The map will print on the 2nd page or back of a scouting report.
Field information is stored on the iPad in iBooks or DropBox for emailing or printing.
Allows placement of your own label or logo on the scouting sheet.
Benefits
All Apps: The key to a successful app is ease of use, and eCropScout’s design is built with that in mind. All apps allow you to add grower, crop and condition information. You can have the option to add a map that will print on the 2nd page or back of the form. Whether you’re in the tractor or scouting a field you can now easily keep track of all your field information.
Reduce your paper work and send the field data to anyone in real time or your desktop computer.
Weed Scouting App: Most of the data entry consists of pull downs for quick reports. You can add your own weeds and the App will remember what you entered. Recommended chemical application information is very easy and quick to enter.
Insect and Disease Scouting App: Pull downs for quick data entry. Add any insect and disease to you scouting sheet. Application area for recommended treatment.
Fertilizer/Manure Application App: An app to make recommendation for applications or use to keep all your records on applications. Keep records on Fertilization/Manure and draw in the area spread for each field. Have all the information needed for feedlot permits. The best part is you can easily make a map showing the area applied.
Planting Application App: Keep track of all your varieties and areas planted. You can record your insecticides, fertilizer and seed treatments. Take a picture of bag tags.
Chemical Application App: Pull-downs for quick data entry. Products can be added to by the user and the app remembers those products. Area sprayed can be shown with the map system.
Harvest Scouting App: As you harvest your field you can record all the important information. If you see a weed problem, pull up a map and draw in the needed information. Keep track of varieties, lodging, yield and root quality.
The seamless connection to Prairie Farm Club website allows you to benefit from your work. With farmers, agronomists and agricultural professionals supplying crop conditions, the guessing about how the crop is progressing around the country is over.
Requirements
Users of eCropScout automatically become free Silver Members/Reporters at the Prairie Farm Club website grainshed.com
Each user registers at the Prairie Farm Club website and is given ID # to use in the eCropScout App. At the grainshed.com website you gain free access to crop condition information throughout the growing season.
eCropScout App Only sends crop condition information to the Prairie Farm Club website. All personal information is kept with the iPad and only date, crop, crop stage, moisture, state, county, crop condition, irrigation, population, % County planted, and Scout/Consultant ID are sent to the Prairie Farm Club website.
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