CropTrak Farm Manager is more than a data collection app; it is a smart, map-centric, and FarmEngine Ai Digital Record Manager platform. The...
CropTrak Farm Manager is more than a data collection app; it is a smart, map-centric, and FarmEngine Ai Digital Record Manager platform. The award-winning platform makes mobile field data collection, tracking, and edit easier than any other tool for capturing farm/food safety/ sustainability/ compliance/ employee/ equipment/ chemical data.CropTrak runs native on the iPad/iPhone, using the cloud on demand for multiple user collaboration, consolidation, remote reporting, and administration.FarmEngine:FarmEngine evaluates your manual and automatically loaded data against RULES you design (without programming) to feed our Farm Ai Engine (artificial intelligence). No more black box applications, become the expert of your crop and processes.Rules that automatically provide emails, text messages, work orders, action items, and map icons:a)REMINDs you of workflow efforts, (time to scout, etc.)b)ALERTs you to problems or pending issues, (field is dry, inventory low, etc.)c)ADVISE you on what to do, (how much water to add, yield estimates, etc.)d)DISPLAY current status of external feeds,e)REMEMBER what and why.Find out why our customers, say they wished they had this technology their whole life. IN-APP ANALYSIS:Create, view, and export custom in-app analysis of the data you just collected and historical data like never before, anywhere. Even do unit conversions, colorization, quantization, and more. Exports can be shapefiles, Excel, and Microsoft Word.ORGANIZE YOUR DATA:Track and manage your data at the Region, Grower, Farm, Field, Zone, and Feature levels (assets).MAP YOUR OPERATION:Import, create, and Edit vector boundary polygons, trials, zones, tile lines, wells and bin points, and more to visualize everything in your operation.CREATE ZONES:Built-in Zone Tools lets you create management zones from Tractor Planting, Application, and Harvest point data. Export Shapefiles with attributes to your tractor or use in soil sampling.PLANTING, INPUT, AND HARVESTING: Use forms to track and document all farm activities from planting thru harvesting.SCOUTING, SOIL SAMPLING, AND FIELDWORK:Optimized Rapid entry tools make Scouting and Soil Sampling fast and painless.WEATHERCapture weather per measurement, accumulate weather over time, and calculate crop GDDs. Use the FarmEngine to send freeze and heat warnings, suggest irrigation, pest and disease alerts, and so much more. ACTION ITEMS, WORK ORDERS and TIME TRACKING Manage works for people and equipment.REPORTINGPrint and email customizable reports DIRECTLY from the mobile app. Have your own reporting solution? We can provide you with SQL Views that connect to your favorite reporting solution or 3rd party application. Even an ODBC connection to Excel so gaining access to your data has never been easier.Works with Tableau, Microsoft Bi, jReports, Yellowfin, and many others.
Map centric farm management
Renders 10's of thousands vectors really well
Work Orders was easy and intuitive with map tie-in
Just got a new Office Template Reporting
Works disconnected properly
Support was very good, but only email based.
User customer forms was perfect for my documentation needs.
Cons
Only iOS and really only iPad/mini support since iPhone has less features than iPad.
Found their old web reporting system hard to operate and a little unstable.
Support is only email based so pain when I was in the field.
Summary
This app has grown a lot in the 2014 growing season.
It is a farming GIS, documentation, scouting and sampling app which unlike most farming apps has work orders and time cards which are spatial as well. Fairly unique actually.
Found the new reporting system based on Microsoft office templates actually as easy as using Word or Excel. Found their old web reporting system hard to operate and a little unstable, so glad to see the new one.
Been loading my Drone imagery and tractor data for scouting, happy with performance on my iPad Air.
Crazy they get acceptable render performance with so much stuff on the screen on this small device.
Looking forward to the MyJohnDeere.com support so I can make management zones from yield on the iPad.
If you are little bit technical inclined this is super flexible tool. Might be a bit much for someone looking for turn key solution.
Don't buy it.
Polars_Review
Pros
If it worked it be great.
Cons
Very buggy and poor workflow. Literally NOTHING work as advertised. The amount of bugs I found was astounding. Exports, reports, imports, general workflow design, it was all bugged and broke.