Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for creating demo application maps for site-specific farming. The demo application maps contain a blend of agricultural products. The blend of agricultural products can be viewed or printed either numerically or graphically. Once the demo application maps are combined with a map payment system, the blend of agricultural products can be used by an application machine to apply products to a field. The demo application maps are created by first inputting product information into a mapping system. The agricultural product information contains a percentage of crop inputs contained in the products. Next, the mapping system accesses crop input requirement maps. The crop input requirement maps contain a prescription of crop inputs to apply to a field. The product information and crop input requirement maps are combined to create a blend of agricultural products.

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.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for creating controller application maps for site-specific farming. The controller application maps can be used by an application machine to apply agricultural products to a field. The controller application maps are created by a mapping system by first accessing demo application maps. Demo application maps are broken into grids that represent a field and contain a blend of agricultural products to apply to each cell of the grid or field. Demo application maps can be viewed or printed, but the maps have not been paid for and cannot be used by an application machine. The blend of agricultural products contained in demo application maps is in a Geographical Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) that contains unique data tags. Next, the mapping system updates the data tags of the demo application maps based on payment of map-creation charges.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method of creating application maps for site-specific farming. The application maps are developed using a modular process. The first step of the process is to develop field attribute maps. The field attribute maps contain the various types of agricultural inputs used to create an application map. The second step of the process is to create crop input requirement maps. The crop input requirement maps combines the information from the field attribute maps and recommendation equations. The last step of the process is to create an application map. The application map combines the crop input requirement maps and product inputs to create a blend of commercial products apply to a field.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for creating field attribute maps for site-specific farming. Field attribute maps contain agricultural data that is collected from a field and converted into a format used to create application maps. To create field attribute maps, agricultural data is collected from a field and input to a mapping system. The agricultural data is then cleansed and validated. The cleansing process corrects any data errors and converts the data into a standard format. The validation process verifies the latitude and longitude of the data. The data is then converted into a two-dimensional grid format. The end result is a field broken into multiple grid cells, where each cell contains agricultural data. The two-dimensional grid format allows the mapping system to more efficiently create application maps.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for providing profit analysis for site-specific farming. The present invention uses two different methods to analyzes and compare applications of agricultural products. The first method compares the potential for yield increases in nutrient-limited areas. The second method compares the potential for cost savings of fertilizer in areas with high quality soil. The applications may be site-specific or whole-field applications. The present invention uses soil fertility information to calculate and compare the results of various applications.