Tools
Digital platforms we recommend for the practical work of managing fields, running on-farm research, and making soil health decisions — from day-to-day operations to structured agronomic trials.
Manure Calculator
Full nutrient plan from real lab data
Turn manure into a rate, a 3-year plant-available nitrogen schedule, a nutrient balance, and a dollar value — grounded in thousands of real lab analyses from UMN's ManureDB and the peer-reviewed PAN math from Iowa State and Penn State Extension. Pick your source (animal × form × bedding), your crop and yield goal, and your soil test; get a rate with the P-index rule already applied.
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What you can do
- Rate with the P-index rule. N-based, P-limited, or P-based — the tool picks the right basis from your soil test P.
- 3-year PAN schedule. Year-1, Year-2, Year-3 plant-available N by mineralization category and application method.
- Fertilizer-equivalent value. See what the N, P₂O₅, and K₂O are worth at current retail prices you can override.
- Environmental risk flags. Runoff risk, C:N immobilization, and NRCS 590 timing violations surfaced automatically.
FieldLog
Field records & agronomic trial management
FieldLog is a lightweight platform for keeping a clean digital record of what happens in your fields — both day-to-day farm operations and structured research. Producers use it as a shared logbook for activities and rotations, while agronomists and researchers use it to design plots, capture trial data in the field, and compare treatments across seasons without the overhead of enterprise farm-management software.
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What you can do
- Field & operations log. Record planting, tillage, amendments, scouting, and harvest with dates, inputs, and notes.
- Trial & plot design. Set up treatments, replications, and plot layouts for on-farm and small-plot agronomic research.
- In-field data capture. Collect observations, measurements, and photos against specific plots from your phone.
- Season-over-season history. Track rotations, yields, and treatment comparisons across years in one shared record.
Know a tool producers should see here?
We add tools our network of agronomists, researchers, and producers actually use — whether it helps run a field, design a trial, or make sense of soil data. If you build or rely on something that belongs on this list, send it over.