What it does
Seven things, in plain English.
Each one has a note at the bottom saying where it stops. That isn’t modesty, it’s the whole point — you can’t trust a number from software that won’t tell you what it doesn’t know.
Card import
Drop the card in. Your years file themselves.
Pull the card out of the monitor, drop it in, and your fields come out drawn from where the machine actually drove — not traced off a photo, not typed in from the FSA sheet.
Planting and harvest dates come with it, and the varieties, going back as far as the card goes. You confirm each field yourself before anything files: create it, merge it into one you already have, or skip it. Nothing gets folded into your records behind your back, and a boundary you drew yourself is never overwritten by one a machine guessed at.
Boundaries from anywhere else come in the same door — shapefile, KML, KMZ or GeoJSON — whether they came from the FSA office, your agronomist, or the system you're leaving.
- Field outlines built from real coverage, so the acres are what you farmed
- Planting and harvest operations filed into the right season, by date
- One review screen: create, merge or skip, field by field
Screenshots of the card import review screen go here.
They aren’t taken yet, and we’d rather show you an empty space than a mock-up of
software that doesn’t look like that.
Where it stops
Case IH and New Holland cards today. We don’t read John Deere or ISOXML files yet, and green-equipment farms bring boundaries in as shapefiles instead.
Prescriptions
A seeding rate that knows where your pivot ends.
Draw the pivot once. AcreCast pulls your soil survey straight from USDA, cuts it at the pivot’s actual edge, and rates the watered ground and the dry corners separately — because they’re separate ground.
What comes out is a variable-rate seeding prescription you carry to the monitor as a shapefile, with the rate column first so a picky importer still gets it right.
It shows its work. Attainable yield, water-stress risk, the seed price and grain price it used, and — for every input — whether that number was measured on your farm, derived, or assumed. It will lay replicated rate strips in the field too, so next fall you find out who was right instead of arguing about it.
- Soil map units pulled live from USDA and split at the pivot line
- Zones fall out of the model, not out of equal-size buckets
- Every input labeled measured, derived or assumed
- Rate strips built in, capped at a few percent of the field
Screenshots of a seeding prescription with its zones and evidence go here.
They aren’t taken yet, and we’d rather show you an empty space than a mock-up of
software that doesn’t look like that.
Where it stops
Corn and soybeans get the full soil-driven rate. Wheat runs off the drilling date and canola is a flat rate with a drainage suitability flag — the published research for a soil-driven rate in those two isn’t there, and we won’t invent it. Fertilizer and chemical maps carry your agronomist’s rates on our geometry; we refuse to model those rates for the same reason. Built on a desktop screen, read on any.
Spray records
The spray record that keeps you out of trouble.
Product, EPA number, rate, acres, target pest, applicator and license, and the conditions at the time. The record a regulator asks for, filled in while you still remember it.
Save one with a re-entry interval on it and the crew finds out: the field shows restricted until the interval clears, on their phones, with the clock and the product that set it.
Insurance dates go in once and count themselves down. Equipment runs on an hour meter with a due list sorted most-urgent-first, and a board that says who has the sprayer.
- Wind, temperature and humidity filled in for that field and that hour
- Re-entry intervals raise a real alert on the crew’s phones
- Pre-harvest intervals hold the field back from harvest, and say so on the haul ticket
- Final planting dates and late periods, counted down per crop and county
- Maintenance due by engine hours, most urgent at the top
- Applications export as a CSV a regulator can read — weather source and all
Screenshots of the spray record form and the restricted-entry list go here.
They aren’t taken yet, and we’d rather show you an empty space than a mock-up of
software that doesn’t look like that.
Where it stops
<<<<<<< HEADYou type the wind, temperature and humidity — there’s no weather service filling them in. Pre-harvest intervals warn you where the decision is made — on the field card and on the haul ticket — but they don’t push a notification the way re-entry intervals do.
=======The weather it fills in is MODELED — a grid cell about seven miles across, not a gauge on that field — and it says so on the form, on the record and in the export. Type over any of it and the record says the numbers are yours. If the service is down it says that too, rather than leaving blanks that read as calm. Pre-harvest intervals are stored and exported but don’t raise an alert yet; re-entry intervals do.
>>>>>>> worktree-agent-a49cca61df78f92a7Did it pay
Did the water pay?
Irrigated bushels next to dryland bushels, same crop, same season, with the field’s acres split at the pivot line when you kept the two yields apart.
Underneath it: what the power cost to run the pump, worked out from your motor’s nameplate, your duty cycle and your own hours.
Anything it had to leave out comes back by name and reason — no yield recorded, acres unknown, no pivot drawn. It won’t quietly average around a hole and hand you a tidy number that isn’t true.
- Bushels per acre, watered against dry, by crop and season
- Acres split at the pivot geometry you drew
- Power cost from nameplate horsepower, load and hours
- Every excluded field named, with the reason
Screenshots of the irrigated-versus-dryland report go here.
They aren’t taken yet, and we’d rather show you an empty space than a mock-up of
software that doesn’t look like that.
Where it stops
The power figure is an estimate off the nameplate — your meter is the truth, and the app says so. There’s no water-volume tracking and no utility or pump telemetry.
Cost per acre
What it cost. What it made.
Budget a crop by the acre, by the bag — $650 a bag at fifteen acres to the bag — or off the machinery you actually own.
You get cost per acre with each line as a share of it, breakeven bushels, breakeven price, and what the year looks like at three yields and three prices. Cash-flow timing keeps depreciation out of the cash column, where it doesn’t belong.
Grain tickets go in with moisture, foreign material and damage, and come back out as bushels on the right field. On a field with two crops on it, the app refuses to guess and tells you which ones it skipped.
- Cost per acre, breakeven yield and breakeven price
- Yield and price scenarios side by side
- Grain tickets to bushels, applied onto the planting
- Custom work both directions — hired out and hired in
Screenshots of a crop budget with cost per acre and breakeven go here.
They aren’t taken yet, and we’d rather show you an empty space than a mock-up of
software that doesn’t look like that.
Where it stops
Crew logins don’t see money. The dollar columns aren’t blanked out for them, they’re not sent at all — so nothing renders as a zero that was really a secret.
No signal
Works when the bars don’t.
Open it in the yard, drive into the hole in the coverage, and keep going. Sprays, fuel, hours, grain tickets, irrigation runs, field notes — they stack up on the phone and send themselves the minute you’re back on the road.
Nothing is thrown away to keep the queue tidy. If the server refuses a record, it doesn’t vanish: it moves to a list with the server’s own reason printed on it and waits for you to retry it or throw it out on purpose.
The badge on the nav says how many are waiting. You never have to wonder whether the last hour of work made it.
- Records queue on the phone and send themselves when signal returns
- A rejected record is kept, with the reason, never dropped
- A count of what is still waiting, in front of you
Screenshots of records waiting on the phone with no signal go here.
They aren’t taken yet, and we’d rather show you an empty space than a mock-up of
software that doesn’t look like that.
Where it stops
Open it while you still have signal. A cold start in a dead spot gives you the app but not your field list — we cache the program, not your farm, and we’d rather say that than let you find out at the end of a row.
Your data
Your records leave whole. Any day.
One button. No phone call, no fee, no account manager to go through, no export tier.
You get nineteen spreadsheets — fields, plantings, applications, fuel, tickets, agreements, budgets, equipment, the lot — plus a map file of every boundary that opens in QGIS or Google Earth without anything else installed.
And a manifest listing every file and its row count, including the empty ones, under a heading that says what is NOT in this export. Fields with no boundary drawn are listed by name rather than dropped quietly. If we’re missing something, the download tells you so itself.
- Nineteen CSVs plus a GeoJSON of every boundary
- A manifest that names the omissions out loud
- Available on the free trial and after it ends
Screenshots of the export screen and its manifest go here.
They aren’t taken yet, and we’d rather show you an empty space than a mock-up of
software that doesn’t look like that.
Where it stops
Prescription zone geometry is exported per prescription as a shapefile, not in the bulk download — and the manifest says so rather than letting you assume.
Put it on one field and see.
The trial runs a season. Bring in one card, draw one pivot, log one spray, and decide from something real instead of a demo video.