How do I create and run a Script using Advanced Nutrient Recommendation in Field360 Studio?

Overview:

Advanced Nutrient Recommendation is an extension within the Fertility workflow that allows users to run a calculator on soil sample data to create a nutrient recommendation for a field or fields. You can use Field360 Studio to run scripts by using the Advanced Nutrient Recommendations panel. All scripts that have been preloaded can be accessed here.    

Requirements:

• Farms, fields, and cropzones created.
• Soil test layer with data
• Determine if you will use a calculator pre-loaded in Field360 Studio or if you will upload a user-created calculator.

Process:

1. In the Resources window select your crop zone. 

2. Locate the Fertility tab and select Advanced Nutrient Recommendations. 

3. Within the Advanced Nutrient Recommendations window click on .

4.  will bring up the Nutrient Recommendations Script Editor. 

Note: Since you already selected your crop zone, once you bring up the Nutrient Recommendations Script Editor it will already have the crop zone added. 

5. Select a calculator in the Pre-Surface tab. The calculators selected in the Pre-Surface tab are nutrient equations run prior to any surfacing of the source layer(s). 

6. If the calculator requires a variable for which you do not have a layer (as indicated by the red X), you must choose the manual option and enter the value. Once you choose your source you can then enter your values for each source. See example below. 

7.  tab, the Surfacing Parameters indicate how soil test site layers should be surfaced. If a surface is not desired, uncheck the option for “Create layer as surface”. However, if a surface is preferred, leave the option checked and enter the desired parameters.

8.  tab. Use the Crop Removal option to indicate if you would like to run a maintenance, or crop removal(s), calculator either independently or in conjunction with a build calculator (Pre and/or Post-Surface tabs).

Note: To create a recommendation that includes a crop removal calculation, surfacing must be completed on the resulting layer.

To use Crop Removal:

• Select the check box to 
• Select the appropriate Start and End years for which the processor should query to find harvest data; the default is the previous crop year, or Current -1
• Set the appropriate surfacing parameters using the Search radius, Plateau radius, and Weighting drop downs (see Surfacing for definitions of these surfacing options)
• Select the Crop Removal calculator and make modifications to the variables if desired

Note: The cell size entered on the Surfacing tab will be used for the Crop Removal

9.  tab. In this tab you can choose to enter a default Layer Name for the recommendation layer. (this will be the name that shows up under the cropzone)

To utilize Opti-Allocate in Nutrient Formulator, you will need to check the box . 

10. To Run the script click  at the bottom of the window. It will bring you to the Run Script window. 

Click  to finish running the script. 

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