Until recently, farmers were happy to use personal computers to track their field records, work with maps and keep the books. Compared with notebooks and scraps of paper scattered across home-office drawers and the truck’s glove compartment, software greatly simplified farm management.
Farmers now need to be able to monitor and manage their work in real time from a mobile device. This means that data collected in the field should show up in the system regardless of whether the farmer is at their office computer, repairing equipment in the workshop, or discussing next year’s plans with a consultant. Farm data needs to be at their fingertips at all times, around the clock.
That’s why the sync-feature updates in Trimble Ag are so exciting. Now farmers can combine the incompatible. Whether they use Trimble software on an office computer or on their smartphone in the field, the data can be used from different locations, and this lets them make informed decisions.
And for those who want to do away with office software entirely, Trimble offers a full online solution that works without a personal computer. That’s the coolest thing about Trimble Ag – now you have the option to choose where to start.
Here are just a few of the sync-feature improvements made in the latest version of Trimble Ag software:
- Uploading field tasks from the Trimble Ag mobile app – when a field task is entered in the mobile app (sowing, fertilizer application, crop protection, etc.), the data can now be uploaded to the personal-computer software. In previous versions, data syncing was only done with the online platform. This is an important improvement, since personal-computer users can now use their smartphone to enter field records.
- Syncing new tasks from the personal computer – now you can select tasks (field records and maps) in the personal-computer software and upload them to the online platform. Why does this matter? There are thousands of personal-computer clients who’ve accumulated maps of their field operations over many years (for example: yield, seed varieties, fertilizer rates, etc.). With one tap you can view these maps on your smartphone. These maps are very convenient to use while conducting a field survey, when you can see the yield map or complex changes while moving to low-yield areas.
- Getting coordinates of completed and planned soil-sample locations from the Trimble Ag mobile app – thanks to the new sync tools, soil sampling has become simpler. If you’ve planned soil sampling on the personal computer, you can now sync this task with the Trimble Ag mobile app. As soon as you save the actual location of collected samples in the mobile app, this data will be synced with the personal-computer software, and you’ll be able to import the soil-sample results for these saved points. This removes the need to use outdated Windows Mobile field software, such as Farm Works Mobile, and lets you use an Android- or iOS-based tablet or smartphone for sample-collection tasks.
But don’t just take our word for it – request a free demo!
Yevgen Kondratyev
Tel.: +38 50 450 47 82
E-mail: e.kondratyev@astra-group.com.ua
