Syngenta Eagle View Aerial Application Program
Through a partnership with Syngenta, SST is pleased to announce the release of Eagle View, a state-of-the-art aerial application management program. Eagle View provides seamless communication between agronomists and aerial applicators of pesticides and fertilizers. An agronomist can easily place orders for application on the geo-referenced boundaries stored in Summit Professional. To learn more about Eagle View, click on the FarmRite button, then select Premium Services.
NOAA National & Regional Weather Radar Also added to the Premium Services section of FarmRite, Summit Professional users can now access national and regional weather radar.
SST Summit All Versions – 4.3
Revert to Previous Field Boundary
Under Setup/Field Management/Edit-Delete Fields there is now a new button called “Revert Boundary”. This new function will allow users to replace the current boundary with one created previously. This function was added to address the issue of accidental clipping from Stratus, or in the case that another user incorrectly updated the field boundary. When reverting to the old boundary all of it’s management zones will be resurrected.
·Points Removed when Header is Up – Any points logged while the combine header was up are now removed and their flow data is redistributed to previous points.
·Added User-Defined Polygon Clipping Control to Crop Settings Section – In the Crop Settings section of the Yield Editor a new setting called “Allowable Overlap” has been added. This setting controls how much pass-to-pass overlap is allowed before the latter pass is clipped to the first. The default setting is 80%, but can be changed by the user.
·Moved Yield Data Storage from XML-Based Storage to Binary Storage – In and effort to increase speed and reduce physical size, yield data has been migrated to a binary form of data storage.
·Change Crop – If the wrong crop was assigned to a yield file at import, it can now be changed in the Crop Settings section of the Yield Editor.
·Change Season - If the wrong crop season was assigned to a yield file at import, it can now be changed in the Crop Settings section of the Yield Editor.
SyncNow Improvements
·Added SyncNow Relationship Info to Home screen – On the Home screen you will notice a new section containing a list of SyncNow Relationships. This section provides overview information about SyncNow Relationships, such as the last time data was synced to you by each user and a link to the SyncNow Logs for the last five sync instances.
·SyncNow Activity Logs Added – Under Setup/SyncNow a new section called SyncNow Activity has been added. In this section you can now view log files of all data sent to you through SyncNow Relationships.
·Administration Rights on Past Data can now be Passed –This new functionality is located under Setup/SyncNow/Manage Existing Relationships. To pass admin rights, select a relationship, select the Administration tab, select Past Data, and the check the events that you want to change and click Apply.
·Yield Data now being Synchronized – Yield Data is now being synchronized to the SST servers. This is done for data backup and FarmRite data processing.
·SyncNow Speed Improvements Made
Stratus Sync Info Moved
·The Stratus sync info that was on the Home screen has been moved the Stratus screen.
Data Backup
·Local Backup – Yield Data is Now Being Backed Up – Yield data is now included in local backups.
Legend Changes
·“Equal Records” Legend Added – This new legend evenly divides records in a file between the number of classes selected in the legend. This legend has been set as the new default legend for yield data.
·“Equal Values” Legend Added – This legend looks at the total number of unique values in a field and then evenly divides them between the number of classes selected in the legend.
Soil Sampling - Attributes Added
·Saturation Percentage
·CaCO3 %
·Exchangeable Acidity (H+; Al+3)
·Estimated Nitrogen Release and associated units
Soil Sampling – New Unit of Measure Added
·NCDA Index – The North Carolina Department of Agriculture Index was added to the following attributes, P, K, Mn, Zn, Cu, and S.
Settings Changes
Added Surface Display Setting – Under the Settings section a user can now select whether surfaces and recommendations are displayed as polygons or surfaces.
Added Yield Data Display Setting – Under the Settings section a user can select whether yield data is displayed as points or polygons.
Moved SyncNow Settings to Setup – The SyncNow Settings that have been located in the Settings tab have been moved to Setup/SyncNow/SyncNow Settings.
Deleting Field Boundary Change
Data Displayed on Delete Field Screen – On the Delete Fields screen, the display now shows all data currently saved to the selected field.
SST Summit Professional – 4.2 Build 2931
John Deere GreenStar 2 Export Improvement
·Changed “Out of Field” and “Loss of GPS” settings to zero rate.
FarmRite Additions
·Dry Yield and Moisture Surfaces Automated – FarmRite users can now place automated orders for Dry Yield and Yield Moisture Surfaces.
· Support Added for Yield Removal Recommendations – Support has been added for using yield data to calculate fertility removal factors when creating fertility recommendations.
Released: November 7, 2007 All Summit Versions – 4.2 Build 2862
“Add New Fields” Dialogue for SyncNow Relationships
When new fields are added to SST Summit the user will now be notified and allowed to immediately add the fields to outgoing SyncNow Relationships. This new dialogue will appear any time a new field is added by syncing with Stratus, importing an .sst package, digitizing in Summit, or receiving new field from an incoming SyncNow Relationship.
SST Summit Professional – 4.2 Build 2862
John Deere GreenStar 2 VR Export Fix:
A bug has been fixed that disallowed creation of Lime recommendation exports.
Released: October 18, 2007 SST Summit Professional – 4.2 Build 2845
Default Product Setup for FarmRite Recommendations:
Under Setup/Product Setup there is now a new tab called Default Products. This area allows FarmRite users to setup default fertilizer products for fulfillment of nutrient recommendations. For example, if a user always fulfills P205 recommendations with DAP then he/she can now set all P205 recommendations to be fulfilled by DAP and Summit will automatically create the DAP recommendations once nutrient recs are synced from FarmRite. In this section the user can also specify the minimum rate, application cost and several other
