Abstract: A system and method for creating crop input requirement maps for site-specific farming. Crop input requirement maps contain a prescription of crop inputs for each section of a field. The prescription of crop inputs is used to create an application map. The first step in creating crop input requirement maps is to input recommendation equations into a mapping system. The user either selects a pre-defined recommendation equation or inputs an equation using mathematical equations, nested programming, or tables. Next, a field attribute map containing various agronomic data is accessed by the mapping system. The field attribute map includes data such as soil test values, elevation, desired crop yield, soil survey, as-applied data, yield monitor data, and other information. The final step combines the recommendation equations and field attribute maps to create a prescription of crop inputs for each section of a field.

Abstract: A software-based system and method for analyzing data contained in a computerized database. A plan document specifies data to be used by each of a plurality of software modules. A decision tree document identifies a set of the software modules to be invoked and specifies an order in which the identified set of software modules are to be invoked. Each of the identified set of software modules are provided a version of the plan document. Each version of the plan document provided to each of the identified set of software modules is transformed into a transformed plan document such that each one of the identified set of software modules has an associated transformed plan document. The identified set of software modules are invoked in the order specified in the decision tree. Each of the identified set of software modules performs operations using data from the transformed plan document associated with the software module.