A Successful Spring Starts in the Winter: A Planning Season Checklist

"An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing." — Dale Carnegie

Planning season is a time for preparation, organization and reflection. But after a busy harvest season, strategizing for the upcoming year can feel overwhelming. Luckily, FieldView™ can equip you with knowledge and insights about past seasons’ performance all in one place, so you can easily turn your data into decisions that will position you for success come spring.

Every good plan starts with a checklist. Here are some to-dos we recommend checking off for a productive planning season.

Number One Upload Planting & Harvest Data

Number One

Before devising a plan for next season, let’s learn from the past. Start by uploading your planting and harvest data for an objective look at where you excelled, where to improve, and why it all happened. If you haven’t already, click here to learn more about our new and improved FieldView™ Drive 2.0 ahead of planting season. Data transfer into FieldView happens automatically with FieldView Drive 2.0. But if you don’t have equipment compatible with FieldView Drive 2.0, no worries. You can manually upload historical field boundaries, planting, harvest or soil files via Data Inbox.

Number Two Analyze & Adjust Yield Data

Number Two

After uploading data into FieldView, you can analyze field performance or use yield data to better understand seed performance by operation, field, hybrid and soil type.

If necessary, yield data can be easily adjusted for more accurate results. Edit metrics like harvested acres, total wet weight, dry bushels, field moisture and more.

Number Three Create & Share Reports

Number Three

By creating reports within FieldView, raw information becomes more digestible, trends start to emerge, and your next steps become clear. Your data becomes an even more powerful tool toward profitability when you can easily share reports with your agronomic partners.

Number Four Compare Critical Data with Side-by-Side Maps

Number Four

Rather than making decisions based on results from someone else’s trials across the state, the data you collect for your fields is yours to learn from. With FieldView, it’s simple to visualize multiple data layers at once to see how inputs performed in specific environments. Select the data layers you want to view, such as hybrid and yield data, or compare uploaded soil test data to other map layers like Yield or Planting.

Number Five Download or Update the FieldView Cab App

Number Five

Planning season is the perfect time to make sure your FieldView Cab app is updated and ready to go for planting season. Download or update the FieldView Cab app in the Apple App Store. Version 14.3.0 or higher is the one you want. But you don’t need to know the exact number — just press the “Update” button. Don’t forget to update the FieldView Cab app on your tablet and your phone.

Number Six Scan Your Seed Bags

Number Six

At the end of harvest, you need yield data to be easy to read. But if you labeled the same hybrid three different ways, it will show up on three different lines, even though it's the same seed! If you find typing the actual seed name cumbersome, scan the seed bag to enter the correct name automatically. This is a great winter prep activity and another example of how an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Number Seven Upload Soil Tests

Number Seven

Soil tests can reveal valuable opportunities in a field, but some farmers may be deterred by the thought of how cumbersome testing has traditionally been. With FieldView, you can easily import Soil Test data through the Data Inbox. This feature allows you to visualize organic matter (OM), cation-exchange capacity (CEC), potential of hydrogen (pH), Phosphorus (P), and Potassium (K), and compare this information side-by-side with other data layers.

Number Eight Create Custom Prescriptions with FieldView™ Seed Scripts

Number Eight

Finalizing planting plans? Let FieldView Seed Scripts help manage variability on your farm by creating accurate zones with hybrid-specific planting rates.

Developing precision application zones can be a hassle, but Automatic Zone Creation uses the satellite imagery from your FieldView account to generate precision management zones. You can even change the number of zones depending on how specific you want to get when entering the field in 2026. The tool also makes it easy to run what-if scenarios for fertility plans, allowing you to fine-tune how precise you want to get and what that might mean for your fertilizer bill in 2026.

Have Questions While You Prep? The FieldView Support Team Is Always Prepared.

Our Customer Support team is available to help you get connected, clean up your data, and prepare you for the year ahead. If you need to get into contact with the team, you’ve got options:

Call: 1-888-924-7475 - Press 1

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Email: support@climate.com

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Trevor Gossett, Customer Experience Advisor

Trevor Gossett is the Customer Experience Advisor for the Minnesota/Wisconsin territory at FieldView. In his role, Trevor is dedicated to ensuring growers have the best experience possible with FieldView. By serving as a knowledge base and working cross functionally with internal teams, Trevor provides growers with valuable insights and proactive support so they can get the most out of their data. Trevor has a B.S. from the University of Missouri, Columbia in Agricultural Systems Management. It has enabled him to continue his passion for sustainable agriculture by leveraging this digital space.

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