Set up your farm and plots

Choose your farm’s location, add your plots, fill in their profiles and add your documents, so every answer starts from your fields.

Every new account starts here. ORTH’s advice is as specific as the farm behind it, and a plot with a crop, a variety, soil and irrigation data, and its lab reports gets answers about that plot. Setup takes about ten minutes, and every answer after uses it.

1. 1

   Choose your farm’s location

   Right after you create your account, ORTH asks where your farm is. Search your town, click your farm on the map, give it a name, pick metric or imperial units, check who has access under Access Users and tap Add. For a second farm, open the farm selector at the top and choose Add New Farm.

2. 2

   Choose how to add plots

   On a new farm, tap Create Your First Plot; later it is Create Plots. There are three ways: tap the registered parcels on the map, draw the boundary yourself with Draw (click each corner and close on the first point) or Pivot for a round field, or import a KML or GeoJSON file with Import plots from file.

3. 3

   Name and save your plots

   Select the parcels and tap Confirm. Give each plot the name your team uses and choose the crop: on a new farm My Crops is empty, so search All Crops, or add your own with New Crop. Add more plots before you tap Save to create them in one go.

4. 4

   Open the plot profile

   Open a plot from Farms & plots. The circle next to its name shows how complete its profile is. If a boundary is off, open the ⋯ menu next to the plot name, choose Edit Plot Boundary, drag the corners into place and tap Save.

5. 5

   Complete the profile

   Tap Complete Profile and work through the steps: variety, plot type, soil type, irrigation system, pests and diseases, planting date, number of plants, yield and target markets. Every step is optional, and every answer makes the advice more specific. If you enter a target yield, also pick the harvest dates.

6. 6

   Add documents

   Soil and leaf analyses, lab reports, irrigation designs: upload them under Notes & Files as PDF, Word, Excel, CSV or photo, up to 20 files at once. Pick the plot a file is about, a group of plots, or none to keep it for the whole farm; a file you add in the last profile step is linked to that plot. ORTH uses it in future answers.

Tip. Target markets let ORTH check a spray against export rules. Soil and irrigation data shape water and fertilization advice.

Check yourself

1. What does the circle next to a plot’s name show?

How complete its profile isRain todayThe number of actions

2. How can you add a plot?

Tap registered parcels, draw it, or import a KML or GeoJSON fileOnly by drawing itOnly by importing a file

3. A soil analysis is about one plot. Where does it go?

Notes & Files, with that plot pickedIt cannot be addedOnly in a chat message

ORTH Fundamentals

1. 1Set up your farm and plots
2. 2Chat with ORTH
3. 3Ask better questions
4. 4From advice to action
5. 5Teach ORTH how you work