Getting Started with FarmCommand
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Thank you for choosing Farmers Edge as your trusted partner in precision agriculture! Our goal is to help you make data-driven decisions in an efficient and timely manner. To achieve this goal, our online platform, FarmCommand, gives you access to the tools and information crucial to your operation. In this page, I will walk through a couple steps and a few guides to get you setup and started with FarmCommand.
The features described below may not be available to all users, if you do not have access to everything in this guide and would like to upgrade, please call 1-866-858-4651.
First, the online portal can be found by going to www.FarmCommand.com
Your login should be provided to you by email from a member of Farmers Edge
FarmCommand starts with metric units when the account is first created, you can change this by following this guide:
Change Units from Metric to Imperial in FarmCommand
Next, we will need to build the grower, farm, field structure in FarmCommand so that we can start viewing field data, satellite imagery, making recommendations, and much more.
The first step will be to create growers and farms followed by field borders. Use this guide to get started adding your growers and farms:
Creating New Growers and Farms in FarmCommand
There are two methods to get field borders into FarmCommand: you can either draw them using satellite imagery as a reference or upload border shapefiles from another program. Here are the guides for both:
How to Draw Borders in FarmCommand
How to Upload Borders to FarmCommand
Once field borders are in FarmCommand, we can upload any field data, such as planting or harvest to process into those borders. Use this guide to integrate with one of your current data providers (JD Ops, Climate, AFS Connect etc.).
If you have not integrated you can manually upload any data using this guide.
Upload Field Data into FarmCommand
Keep in mind, field data and satellite imagery process overnight, so the map will update the following day after you create a border or upload the data.
Now, we'll move onto adding a weather station to your favorites. This allows you to easily bring up the station and view its forecast and historical weather:
How to Favorite a Weather Station in FarmCommand
To see what you can do with the Weather, watch these YouTube videos:
Now that we have borders created and stations in our favorites, let's dive into the Map. There are a couple items to check before we see your fields - you can see how to do that here:
How to Select a Grower on FarmCommand Map
How to Change Seasons on FarmCommand Map
Now, we can view our field data:
How View Field Data on FarmCommand Map
How to Create a Crop Plan
Now, you should have an introduction to FarmCommand and can move onto more advanced tools and functions using this page: