FARMS

Open BETA

FARMS is currently under development and may be unstable. Recurring option is disabled.

The Farm and Ranch Management Support (FARMS) system is a new interface from OpenET designed to transform farm and ranch management through customizable report generation. As we launch the beta phase of this tool, we are excited to invite you to explore its features and functionalities.

Your participation and feedback are crucial to our ongoing efforts to refine and enhance the platform, ensuring it meets the specific needs of the agricultural community. Join us on this journey to make agricultural planning more insightful and data-driven.

Step 1: Log in

When you visit FARMS, you will be prompted to login to you OpenET account in a new browser tab. After doing so, return to the FARMS tab and it will auto-refresh after a few seconds to the paltform hoempage.

Auto-refreshing login page.

Step 2: Define your region of interest

Required: Files uploaded to OpenET must be in a 4326 projection.

When you first visit the site you will be prompted to add a set of boundaries and generate an API key from your profile.

Welcome screen after first login.

Remember when you define your spacial region of interest it must conform to your account's Quota area and polygon limit.

Upload Shapes

Upload either a geoJSON file or a zipped shapefile in a 4326 projection. If you are using a shapefile you must at minimum have .shp, .dbf, .prj files contained in your zipped folder. Do not use spaces or special characters in your file names and keep only one set of shapefiles per folder upload. Each polygon in your shapefile must contain a unique identifier attribute which you will manually select during the upload process.

Upload a .zip shapefile or .geoJSON.

Draw Your Own

FARMS features a drawing tool where you can draw shapes and modify your own shapes. Each polygon will automatically populate an attribute called ID which will be an incremented integer starting at 1.

Draw your own boundaries.

Select Existing

You have the option to select existing fields from the OpenET field boundary dataset. Each polygon will automatically populate an attribute called ID using the existing fields identifier.

Select from OpenET's field boundary dataset.

Step 3: Build your report

Once your spacial region has been defined it is time to create your report by hitting the Create Report button. You will have the options to define the reports time period, interval, and model variable combinations.

FARMS supports a 7 day ET forecast for daily reports leveraging NOAA's FRET product. This functionality should only be used for reports with <5 polygons. Additionally, when selecting the daily data option the date range will include 31 days of data which can be modified using the end date. This is to make sure there are enough satellite observations without cloud contamination.

Create report interface.

Step 4: Download

Completed reports have a few options to get the data locally to your machine. Download All Data will create a .csv file which contains Model, Variable, Datestamp, FID, and Value columns. If you would like to create a .pdf file, click Print Report and use the standard print option for the field of interest.

Sample daily report with forecasting.

Step 5: Share or Mark Private

Completed reports can now be shared with a password under the Manage Report button. If a report is toggled to private the url will not work when shared. To view a shared report, a user must have an OpenET account.