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Trac Desktop Software

The Trac software provides a field record keeping solution for farmers and service providers. Start with entering field records for restricted use chemicals, fertilizer applications, scale tickets, equipment maintenance, crop plans, and invoices. Generate simple enterprise statements to track profitability on a field-by-field basis.

Print detailed reports for chemicals, fertilizers, manure, hybrids, restricted entry, scale tickets, weather, and more. An easy-to-use interface allows you to add your own clients, farms, fields, supplies, machines, employees, tank mixes, and other farm inputs. The Trac software provides great starting point for any farmer or service provider looking to improve field record keeping.

Features:

• Utilize the client/farm/field/job management structure for quick access to field records.
• Note tillage practices, application dates, fertilizer and seed rates, herbicide use, crop yields, and weather conditions.
• Keep detailed records on equipment such as service interval, serial numbers, and burn rate of fuel.
• Track inputs, production, and crop rotation information.
• Ability to create EPA required Pesticide Application Schedules that conform to Worker Protection Standards.
• Create work orders and download them into Trac Mate.
• Select nutrients for fertilizers from a drop-down list with set up automatically completed.
• Import pictures of equipment, personnel, and fields from a digital camera.
• Enter crop plans for product ordering, equipment usage, and employee allocation.
• Create invoices for custom farming or other jobs.
• Set up tank mixes and keep track of the individual supplies that are used in each mix.
• Available in over 16 languages.

Filter and print reports by date range, crop year, or client/farm/field.

Funds Desktop Software

The Funds software provides an accounting solution for farmers. Integrate your financial records to provide detailed enterprise statements for fields, livestock groups, or equipment. Easily compare the cost of production for each enterprise and make key decisions to improve farm profitability.

The Funds software offers an automated inventory tracking process for supplies, planted crops, and harvested crops. Fixing accounting entries is quick and simple. Utilize the easy-to-use interactive account register to edit your transactions while still maintaining a full audit trail. Easily generate cash and accrual general ledger reports for tax purposes and print a cash flow report for budgeting. Make your life easier by integrating your accounting records into one software solution.

Features:

• Full check-recording system. Includes an interactive check register, the ability to edit and print computer checks, and an easy to use checkbook reconciliation area.
• Double entry accounting for both cash and accrual general ledgers.
• Integrates with Trac to keep accounting records at the same time as keeping field histories, livestock notations and chemical records.
• Up-to-date inventory tracking for supplies (seed, chemicals, fertilizer, feed, etc), harvested crops and livestock.
• Profitability of each field and group of animals is automatically calculated.
• Full payroll system calculates federal, FICA, and most state withholdings.
• No monthly closings required and year-end is simple.
• Records animal weights and feedings to calculate feed conversion and cost per pound gained and sold for each livestock group.
• Tax schedule area allows you to create reports to make tax preparation easy.
• Generate market value balance sheets.
• Includes budgeted cash flows.
• Keeps family living costs separate from farm costs.
• Predefined accounts and financial statement formats are available that can easily be modified to reduce setup time.
• Depreciation amounts for equipment, structures, land improvements, and livestock can be entered.
• Includes a wide range of financial reports including VAT, Schedule F, Bank Reconciliation, Enterprise Statement, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flows Statement, Trial Balance and more.
• NEW! Import bank statement data to help find accounting mistakes, enter transactions without details, or to reconcile the checkbook
  

Site Desktop Software

Site integrates with Trac to provide mapping and layers. Features include downloading aerial imagery, drawing or importing field boundaries, and creating crop zones. Site offers many options when reading or writing data to popular precision farming devices. It provides unlimited layers for yield mapping, application logs, soil types, soil sample points, and more. Basic variable rate prescription maps are easy to create and will export to many file formats and popular hardware devices. The integration with Trac is especially unique. For example, if importing yield or application data into Site, Trac will convert this spatial data into a field record. Integration that provides less work for you and better record keeping for your operation.

Requirements:

• Trac
• Microsoft Windows™ 2000 or higher (includes XP, Vista, and 7)
• 128 MB Memory
• 50 MB Hard Drive Space
  

Features:

• Set up any number of clients, farms, fields and crop enterprises that will be used for keeping track of maps and field records.
• Integrates with Trac by adding unlimited mapping and layering capabilities.
• Includes mapping tools for drawing fields, structures, and landmarks.
• NEW! Utilize Google™ Maps for drawing field boundaries or to display as background maps.
• NEW! Create, edit, and manage guidance lines for Trimble EZ-Guide 250™ and 500™, FMD™, and FMX™
• Calculates area sizes automatically.
• Enter or import the results of soil tests and generate a map of the data.
• Print full-color maps and reports.
• Display multiple layers at once to see the effect of pH levels or soil types on yields, and more.
• Simple to use "Transparency Tool" makes it easy to see how layers relate to each other.
• Quickly and easily create and edit legends. Create default legends for commodities, yield values, pH and any recorded data attribute.
• Import yield data from yield monitors to generate base, averaged, and contoured views.
• Statistical analysis of yield, moisture, wet yield, mass, and other information gathered by your yield monitor.
• Calculate soil sampling locations for any grid size.
• Import and export data in several formats including Arc View Shape files, KML, FODM XML and ASCII delimited files.
• Use the coordinate system that fits the job - Degrees, Degrees-Minutes, Degrees-Minutes-Seconds, OSGB, or UTM.
• Manually create simple prescription maps from other layers, such as yield maps or soil type zones, for variable rate application jobs.
• Product summary of application maps allows you to see total quantity needed to complete job and approximate cost.
• Buffer tool allows you to select a field boundary (or part of a boundary) and enter a distance or area to have the program create a buffer.
• Create "Reconciled Yield Maps" that match up to yield from grain tickets or other sources.
• Copy points, paths, or areas/polygons between maps/layers.

Filter and print reports by date range, crop year, or client/farm/field.

Pro Desktop Software

Pro takes your mapping to the next level. Pro enhances your mapping experience with multi-year yield averaging (also known as yield normalization), profit mapping, and formulas for creating prescription maps.

With normalizing of yield data, multiple years can be averaged to discover consistently high and low yielding areas. Users can select any combination of crop and/or year for the normalizing, excluding abnormal years, in order to visualize history zones in each field.

The profit mapping feature creates a layer for each crop enterprise year and integrates financial information with precision maps. For example, a user can view a profit map based on seed variety and variable rate application maps, along with yield. Costs can be manually entered for each input with the Trac and Site office software (programs that offer field records and mapping/GIS). When the Funds module (an integrated farmer-level accounting program) is used with Pro , "true" input costs from the checkbook will flow into the profit map. This offers increased financial accuracy with significantly less work. Pro makes it easy to find out what parts of your fields are making money and what precision farming practices are most profitable. No other software in the industry compares to the profit mapping in Pro.

Requirements:

• Trac and Site
• Microsoft Windows™ 2000 or higher (includes XP, Vista, and 7)
• 128 MB Memory
• 50 MB Hard Drive Space

Profit Mapping Features:

• Creates a layer for each crop enterprise year and integrates financial information with precision maps.
• The integration of Trac and Site (without Funds) allows users to assign values to the crops they are raising and costs to supplies, equipment and personnel.
• The integration of Funds allows farmers to use "true costs" on a profit map.
• Flat Expense View - combines all field operations (also known as jobs) that were entered manually or without precision maps and creates a single layer.
• Variable Expense View - combines all field operations (also known as jobs) with their precision maps and creates a single layer.
• Income View - shows income values on a single layer by using a imported yield map.
• Profit View - (Flat Expense + Variable Expense - Income) gives you a visual to see what parts of the field are making the most money and what precision farming practices are most profitable.
• Variety View - displays seed variety locations on a single layer.

Yield Normalization Features:

• Multiple years of yield maps can be averaged together to discover consistently high and low yielding areas of a field.
• Select any combination of crop and/or year to produce yield zones. As an example, you could have one normalized yield zone map for every crop year while having a separate zone map for all corn and another for all soybeans.
• Automated legend assigns average yielding areas a value of "100" (below average yielding areas are less than 100 and above average yielding areas are over 100).
• Calculated point size can be customized based on user preference.
  

Stock Desktop Software

Stock provides detailed records for any livestock operation. Enter unlimited animal types from cattle, hogs, goats, dairy, sheep, horses, reindeer, dogs, and more with the same program. Individual animals and groups are easy to setup with no limitations on the number of animals it will handle. The versatile calendar is a classic feature that shows completed actions and upcoming events for every animal. Reports are easy to print and can be customized for your specific needs. Stock has something for every livestock operation, no matter how large or how small.

Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows™ 2000 or higher (includes XP, Vista, and 7)
• 128 MB Memory
• 50 MB Hard Drive Space
• Trac is required in order to have feed records

Features:

• Tracks an unlimited number of animal types such as cattle, hogs, dairy, sheep, goats, elk, horses, and more.
• Maintain complete and detailed records and histories on livestock by individual or group of animals.
• Integrates with Trac and Funds for feed conversions and profit/loss statements.
• Complete genealogy area allows you to easily maintain records of bloodlines for breeding purposes.
• Print a family tree by selecting the desired animal, then displaying its parents and/or children, continuing as far up or down the tree as desired.
• Calendar area schedules vaccinations, testing, and breeding events.
• Health records can be entered for each animal.
• By-products area allows you to keep detailed records on milkings, wool, etc.
• Set up User Defined Fields to keep track of additional information that is of specific importance to you.
• Reports include valuable information such as weaning weights, mother performance, feed conversions, and vaccinations. All reports can be sorted by the individual or by the group.
• Generates custom reports from information entered. All reports can be exported in a number of useful formats including Word, Excel, PDF, and Text.
• Import unlimited pictures per animal from a digital camera.
• Import animals from text files (such as a spreadsheet). Saves time by not having to enter your animals when first starting out.
• Compatible with most scales for importing weight information.
• Easily add Stock Mate for record-keeping in the pasture or barn.

Lexion Desktop Software / Surface Desktop Software

Surface provides a software surface and sub-surface drainage water management solution designed to be the perfect partner for the Trimble® FieldLevel II automated leveling system on the FmX™ integrated display.

Surface is a surface analysis and design tool that assists with the optimal placement of tile and surface drains. This helps drain the field adequately, and subsequently increases crop yields. Combine 3D views and water flow analysis tools to decide where surface ditches or subsurface tile lines should be installed to optimally drain the field, and ultimately increase crop yields. The powerful Farm Works software drawing tools also let you draw the lines right over the map on the screen. Drainage lines drawn on the screen then produce a vertical profile of the existing surface along any line. This allows the operator to quickly decide if the location of the design will be an ideal place to place a ditch, or install drainage pipe. It also tells the operator the amount of material required to complete the job.

Exporting these designs back to the FmX integrated display lets you use the Autoslope feature of the FieldLevel II system to design the vertical component of your surface or sub-surface designs by defining slope and depth constraints. This allows the FieldLevel II system to automatically instruct any drainage machine or implement to install in the right place, at the right depth and slope.

Requirements:

• Trac, Site, and Pro
• Microsoft Windows™ 2000 or higher (includes XP, Vista, and 7)
• 128 MB Memory
• 50 MB Hard Drive Space
  

Features:

• Carry out a topographic survey of the field using the FieldLevel II system on the FmX integrated display, and then import the survey to the Surface software. This allows the operator to use the existing survey workflow of the FieldLevel II system.
• View a 3D model of the field to gain a visual interpretation of the high and low spots. The model can be rotated, panned, zoomed, and the heights can be exaggerated to allow the operator to personalize the model and view it from any angle.
• Display contours either on the 2D or 3D view to help understand the height differences, and to assist with the drainage design. The operator can define the contour intervals to ensure the display is appropriate for any given field.
• Display a Watershed zone map to view where the surface water will go and where it will pool on the existing surface.
• View the surface geometry lines to quickly interpret all of the tributaries to any given watershed on the field.
• Display Water Flow Arrows to show the direction of water flow, allowing the operator to see which direction the water will flow at any point on the field.
• Decide where surface ditches or subsurface tile lines should be installed to optimally drain the field, and ultimately increase crop yields. The powerful Trac and Site software drawing tools also let you draw the lines right over the map on the screen.
• Drainage lines drawn on the screen then produce a vertical profile of the existing surface along any line. This allows the operator to quickly predict if the location of the design will be an ideal place to put a ditch or install drainage pipe.
• Exporting these designs back to the FmX integrated display lets you use the Autoslope feature of the FieldLevel II system to design the vertical component of your surface or sub-surface designs by defining slope and depth constraints. This allows the FieldLevel II system to automatically instruct any drainage machine or implement to install in the right place at the right depth and slope.
  

Stock Mobile

Stock Mobile gives you a portable data entry solution for herd management records. Stock Mobile is designed with a simple, point and click interface to make it easy to enter and retrieve information in the pasture or barn. Just take your mobile device to the barn and enter records as you go. If you need to look up history records for a particular animal, simply select the history button. View past vaccinations, service records, birth history, or an updated pedigree. Stock Mobile is also compliant with most RFID and EID ear tags.

Requirements:

• Stock
• Mobile computer (such as the Trimble Juno™) installed with Windows™ Mobile, Windows™ CE, or laptop running Windows™ 2000 or higher (including XP, Vista, and 7)
• 32MB RAM

Features:

• Integrates with Stock (required) for a complete herd management package.
• Provides a portable data-entry solution for herd management records.
• Handles multiple animal types such as cattle, hogs, dairy, sheep, goats, elk, horses, and more.
• Enter health, weight, birth, transfer, wean, service, and feed records.
• Quickly monitor information on expected due dates, vaccination reminders, pregnancy checks, and other calendar events.
• View detailed history records of each animal.
• Display bloodlines on-the-go.
• Integrates herd management records into cost analysis package if user has Funds.
• Works with Tag Readers (including EID or RFID) so animals can be automatically selected for data entry. Stock Mate currently supports Y-Tex and I.D.ology tag readers.
• Multiple licensed copies of Stock Mate can gather livestock records and download data into a single Stock program.

Farm Works Mobile

Farm Works® Mobile software streamlines data management in the field by bundling record keeping, mapping, scouting, soil sampling, and variable rate application into one software solution. The Mobile software operates on any field computer with the Windows Mobile®, Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, or Windows 7 operating system.

Data entry for field records can work independently or in conjunction with a GPS receiver to track planting dates, chemical and fertilizer usage, scale tickets, hybrid/variety location, weather, and more. Viewing the history of past hybrids, chemical applications, tillage practices, and yield is simple and efficient. Large buttons enable easy navigation, and the interface accommodates small screen displays.

You can also use GPS for field mapping. Map field boundaries, sampling zones, rocks, pivots, broken drainage tile, no spray zones, and other points of interest. Capture scouting attributes such as weed and insect types, notes, tile diameter, and images from a digital camera.

The Farm Works Mobile software is flexible enough to handle soil sampling by grid or by management zones. Use the navigational line to automatically connect the target points in the order they are numbered. Navigate to any point of interest using the compass or a 3D view of the map.

The software will connect to single or multi-product variable rate controllers that communicate through a serial cable. All files easily download into the Farm Works office software or convert into an ArcView shapefile for flexible data exchange with other mapping software. The Farm Works Mobile software will also connect to sensors for recording yield, conductivity, light reflectance, as-applied, and other data that can be downloaded in the Farm Works office suite or other third-party desktop software.

In addition, the Farm Works Mobile software is Trimble® Connected Farm™ system ready. Install the Farm Works Mobile software on a Connected Farm compatible mobile computer (such as a Trimble Juno® SC or Nomad® 800 XC handheld), to wirelessly send and receive data between the office and field. This system not only saves you valuable time from handling data for more than one location, but also improves your computerized field records, maps, and job reporting.

Requirements:

• GPS Receiver outputting NMEA data (optional for logging field records)
• Mobile computer installed with Microsoft® Windows Mobile, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
• 64MB RAM

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