🛠 How to scout for pests and diseases in the app

• The app installed — Google Play (Android) or App Store (iPhone).
• The login is the same as the web portal. The administrator creates the user and grants access to the farm, in Users.
• The first update done with internet. After the first login, the app downloads the farm's data. When it finishes, the fields show up in Scouting (IPM). If they don't, the field's Season Planting is almost always missing.
• Location (GPS) turned on. The point stores the coordinate of the stop, and the app won't open a point without it.

In the field, you don't need internet. What you record is stored on the phone and uploads by itself when the signal comes back.

App: ☰ > Scouting (IPM)

There are two ways to the same screen:

• From the Home screen, which opens after login: the big Scouting (IPM) button, in the first row.
• From the side menu: tap ☰, in the top corner, and then Scouting (IPM).

The screen has four tabs: LIST and MAP, to choose the field, and IPM MGMT. ANALYSIS and SUMMARY, to look up what has already been done (step 9).

App: Scouting (IPM) > MAP

The MAP tab shows the farm's fields over the satellite image, each with its name in the center, plus your position on the map. The Sector filter, at the top, shows only part of the farm — on a farm with distant areas, it is what zooms the map to the area you are in. When varieties have a color in their record, each field appears in its variety's color and the Legend button shows which color is which, with the hectares; with no color, the field stays white.

Tapping inside a field opens its history — the same one that opens from the list. It is the fastest way to find the field you are in.

On the LIST tab, each field appears with its crop and how long ago it was last scouted — it helps you see what is overdue. Use the Sector and Field filters to find yours and tap it (or tap the field on the map). The field history opens. Tap the orange + button and then New Scouting.

App: Scouting (IPM) > field > New Scouting

Each stop in the field is a point. The point opens in the Point Opening block, on the DETAIL tab:

1. Tap Stage and choose what phase the crop is in (V4, R5…). The stage decides which action threshold range applies to what you count afterwards.
2. Fill in the plant measurements that appear — stand, height, number of nodes. Which ones appear depends on the crop and the farm's settings.
3. Tap OPEN POINT.

The screen already shows the Planting Date and the Days After Planting, which come from the planting record.

Where you are and where you've already stopped: the MAP tab

Next to the DETAIL tab is the MAP tab, which shows the field during the scouting:

• the field outline and your position;
• a red pin on each point already done today, with the point number — this is how you see whether your stops are well spread across the area;
• the Distance to edge, at the top, with a red line from your position to the nearest edge — it helps you avoid placing a point right at the field border;
• from the ⋮ menu, Show previous scouting points adds the points from the field's last scouting in yellow, so you can go back near them or cover what was left out.

With the point open, the screen shows the Type — the counting method used at that stop — and the Select a Pest/Disease field. Choose the Type before counting:

Which of these types appear, and which one comes preselected, is set by the farm in the Crop record. The type gives meaning to the number: five caterpillars on a beat cloth is not the same information as five caterpillars on a hundred plants examined.

Then tap Select a Pest/Disease. On the point's first pest, the app asks you to confirm the quantity assessed; check it and tap OK.

The Pest and size screen opens, with the list of pests. To find the one you found:

• Type — Pest, Disease or Weeds. The app remembers the last one you used.
• Class — Caterpillars, Stink bugs, Mites… All shows the whole list for that type.
• The magnifying glass, at the top, searches by pest name.

Tap the pest name (or the + next to it) to open its fields and fill them in according to what appears:

Which fields each pest has is defined in its record, in Basic > Pest.

After filling it in, tap Save, on the pest itself. The app confirms with Saved successfully!. Repeat for each pest found at the point. What was saved appears in the Found at Point list, on the point screen.

It is the same path as step 5, changing only the Type at the top of the list: Disease for rust, target spot, ramularia and the like; Weeds for invasive plants. Diseases are usually assessed by score or by preset options (for example Low, Medium, High), but each one's record decides: if a number field appears, count; if options appear, choose.

And the same rule applies: Save on each one.

Photo: on the point screen, the camera icon at the top (Take Photo) records what you are seeing — a lesion, a caterpillar, a patch. The photo is attached to the point, and it can only be taken after the point has some record. A point with a photo shows the With photo(s) shortcut.

Counted everything you found at that stop? Tap CLOSE POINT (the button carries the point number: CLOSE POINT 1) and confirm with Yes. The app closes that stop and gets the next point ready. Walk to the next stop and repeat steps 4 to 7.

• Didn't find any pest, disease or weed? Close it the same way. A point with the opening done (stage and measurements) is already a record: that is how the system knows you passed there and found nothing — and that point counts in the field averages.
• What can't be closed is a point without the opening. If you didn't tap OPEN POINT, the app warns that the point has no record: do the opening first.

At the end of the field, tap Finish Scouting, at the bottom of the point screen. The app closes the point that was open and returns to the field. (With the keyboard open the button disappears: close the keyboard.)

Then, with signal, the phone sends everything by itself. While there is anything to upload, the Scouting (IPM) list shows the notice There are items pending sync. Click here to send to the server., with the pending count; tapping it forces the upload. When the notice disappears, it has been uploaded.

Stopped for lunch, finished another field, closed the app? To go back to the scouting on the same day, just open the scouting again: tap the field, the + and New Scouting. The app continues from the point after the last one closed, and all the day's points go into the same scouting — nothing is lost and no new one is started.

The next day, it resets: the app starts a new scouting, from point 1, with that day's date. Yesterday's stays in the field history.

The field history

Tap the field (in the list or on the map). The IPM HISTORY(SUMMARY) tab shows the scoutings, newest to oldest. Each one has a header with the date, who did it, the stage, the days after planting and how many points. Only the most recent comes open: tap the header of a date to open or close its summary, with each pest's value. Each date has two buttons:

• REPORT — generates the report for that day's scouting.
• DRILL DOWN — opens the scouting point by point (below).

Next to it are the WORK ORDER/APPL. tab, with the season's work orders for that field, and the DETAILS tab, with the planting data and the last scouting.

The points on the map: DRILL DOWN

DRILL DOWN opens the day's Detail screen, with two tabs:

• Point by Point — the table of each point with what was counted there.
• Map — the field outline and a pin on each point, with its number and who did it. In Select a Pest/Size here, choose a pest: with Values, the map shows each point's value; with Interpolated map, it paints the field in patches of Low (green), Medium (yellow) and High (red) — that is how you see where the hotspot is. When two technicians scouted the field on the same day, the Monitor selector separates each one's points.

All fields at once: IPM MGMT. ANALYSIS and SUMMARY

In Scouting (IPM), the IPM MGMT. ANALYSIS tab lists the scoutings for a period (choose the Period or the dates, the User if you like, and tap APPLY FILTER), with field, date, number of points and who did it. The SUMMARY tab builds, with that same filter, a table of field by pest, with the Type filter (All, Pest, Disease, Weeds); tapping a value opens the pest's detail. It is how the technician sees, on the phone, a snapshot of the day across several fields.

On the web portal, the same scouting appears in the scouting panel of the Home Screen, with the action threshold color, and on the Scouting screen.

• Still on the pest list: set the value back to zero (or choose None (clear selection)) and tap Save. The entry is removed from the point.
• On the point screen: tap the item in Found at Point. It goes back to the form: correct it and tap Save. To delete it, with the item selected, use the ⋮ menu and Delete.
• After it has uploaded: the agronomist checks and corrects it on the web portal, on the Scouting screen.