Farm Works Software
Version 8.0 – 8.6 Updates

Version 8.0 Features
Version 8.2 Features
Version 8.3 Features
Version 8.4 Features
Version 8.5 Features
Version 8.6 Features

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Farm Works 8.0 Update Features

Farm Trac:
• has an all-new interface for entering field records. You now have the option to use either icons or an Explorer like "tree view" for people and equipment.
• Additionally, the icon area at the left has tabs for People & Equipment as well as supplies.
• You may select multiple fields with the <Shift> or <Ctrl> keys and then apply the selected people, equipment and supplies to the selected fields. This streamlines the process of entering field records.
• The number of acres/hectares farmed may be changed in the Farming box.
• The Farming box now allows you to enter the number of acres to which each supply is applied. This streamlines the process of planting more than one variety in the same field.
• The Farming worksheet (printed from the Farming box) is now in a grid format and the report always fits your page regardless of how many fields or supplies are used.
• The Analysis Percentages for fertilizer can now handle up to three decimal places for the percentage.
• Chemical reports reflect the total amount applied for share crop fields.

Farm Stock:
• (The Farm Stock portion of Version 8.0 is expected to be released in late November)
• Farm Stock has an all-new interface.
• The program fits within the normal "map area" of Farm Trac. This gives a much larger screen and an interface that works more closely with Farm Trac and Funds.
• Farm Stock uses an Explorer like "tree view" for selecting animals from locations and groups.
• The Blood Lines area can now display and print blood lines for as many generations as you like.
• The program will allow you to save weights at an unlimited number of different ages.
• The program gives you the ability to wean and transfer more than one animal at a time.

Farm Site & Site Pro:
• Have a new "Information" tab on the left side of the screen.
• When you select a single point or area this displays all the attributes for the selected item.
• When more than one area or point is selected, a button allows you to display the total, average, maximum or minimum for the values of the selected items.

Farm Site:
• Now includes a "Layers" window that lists all the layers that are being displayed.
• You can right-click on any layer and activate a number of features such as Layer Display, Edit Legend, and Show Me.

Farm Site Mate:
• Basic: can handle "Suspended Logs". This means you can stop in the middle of logging something (such as a boundary) and log something different (such as a point) and then resume what you were originally logging
• Scouting: Includes user-configurable legends. These legends can also be saved as templates for future use.
• Now has the ability to log data from the Micro Trak yield monitor and the EM38 device.
• Data can be displayed in a color map on the go and logged to a file.
• VRA: Now includes an Advanced Option in which the program will not log positions when the sprayer boom is turned off

Farm Funds:
• "Check Setup" box now allows you to specify a different printer for check printing. Thus you can use one printer for printing checks and another for reports.
• The Payroll area has a new "Time and Pay" window that speeds up the processing of payroll.
• The program has a new "Time Sheet" area where you can enter up to seven starting and stopping times for each employee. The program will then compute the hours worked from this information.
• Payroll has a new "Time and Pay Summary" report that includes signature lines for the employee and employer in English and in Spanish, as required under H-2a laws.
• The Loan Payment box now allows you to allocate Interest Expense to enterprises.

Farm Works 8.2 Update

All Programs:
• Version 8.20 includes the new Flash Tutorials for Farm Trac and Farm Funds. The tutorial is fully animated and includes voice. Future tutorials for the other programs will be coming later this year. The CD still includes the old tutorial for Site and the other programs and the new tutorial actually links to the old tutorial so they run as one. The tutorial can also be run from the Help menu inside Farm Works.
• All Helps have been updated to match the latest version of the program.

Farm Trac:
• Farm Trac has an all-new interface for entering field records. You now have the option to use either icons or an Explorer like "tree view" for people and equipment. Additionally, the icon area at the left has tabs for People & Equipment as well as supplies.
• You may select multiple fields with the <Shift> or <Ctrl> keys and then apply the selected people, equipment and supplies to the selected fields. This streamlines the process of entering field records.
• The number of acres/hectares farmed may be changed in the Farming box.
• The Farming box now allows you to enter the number of acres to which each supply is applied. This streamlines the process of planting more than one variety in the same field.
• The Fertilizer Analysis can now go out to three decimal places.
• The Fertilizer Report will now print larger numbers for total applied (previously it would only handle quantities up to 9,999).
• Increased the number of characters for field names on the Chemical Report so long field names now will print.
• Changed the Fertilizer report so that crops that are in Field Prep show up with a blank crop instead of the previous crop on the report.
• Fixed problem where the "Item Does not Change Background Color" option did not work for colors and patterns on equipment.
• Changed the icon tree-view screen so that newly purchased or setup (from Initial Setup) icons show up in the list immediately.
• Fixed problems where printing maps with legends would sometimes cause error messages. These error messages sometimes happened while performing other functions after printing.

Farm Fund$:
• Accounts with zero balances can be deleted. If the account has entries posted to it, it will be hidden so that it still shows up on reports when it had a balance, but it won't show up for purchases, sales and other entries.
• The program uses 2002 Federal and Social Security Withholding rates/tables.
• Forms 1099 and W-2 match the new 2001 format.
• Fixed a problem where the budget comparative report printed differently (it left off lines that had 0 budget but an actual amount) when printed from the menu versus when printed from inside the Budget dialog box.
• Increased font size on invoices.
• Changed the program so you can enter Farming Actions while you are in Initial Setup.
• Added Missouri State Withholding taxes to the State Tax setup.
• Fixed the Unrecorded Outstanding Checks box (in the bank reconciliation) for outstanding checks that are from before the start date of Farm Funds.
• You can now delete lines from the Manual Journal Entry box before recording.
• A condense button has been added to the Manual Journal Entry box so accounts can be selected by folder/category.
• When you close a year-end, the program will not let you close if a piece of equipment will be over-depreciated. The warning message now lists the name(s) of the equipment.
• Changed the Other Expense and Other Revenue boxes so that negative allocations made to multiple enterprises will split between all selected enterprises.
• Made the Bank Reconciliation box wider so that numbers to the right of the decimal place do not get cut off.
• The "Check Setup" box now allows you to specify a different printer for check printing. Thus you can use one printer for printing checks and another for reports.
• The Payroll area has a new "Time and Pay" window that speeds up the processing of payroll.
• The program has a new "Time Sheet" area where you can enter up to seven starting and stopping times for each employee. The program will then compute the hours worked from this information.
• Payroll has a new "Time and Pay Summary" report that includes signature lines for the employee and employer in English and in Spanish, as required under H-2a laws.
• The Loan Payment box now allows you to allocate Interest Expense to enterprises.

Farm Site & Site Pro:
• Farm Site now has a new "Information" tab on the left side of the screen. When you select a single point or area this displays all the attributes for the selected item. When more than one area or point is selected, a button allows you to display the total, average, maximum or minimum for the values of the selected items.
• Farm Site now includes a "Layers" window that lists all the layers that are being displayed. You can right-click on any layer and activate a number of features such as Layer Display, Edit Legend, and Show Me.
• Changed the program so that contoured views of point data can now be copied to another layer. Contour lines can be copied to an area layer and used to define VRA Rates and other information.
• Changed the coordinates so that maps made in New Zealand will now show up.
• Changed the point display so that points will not default to being outlined when the Clip to boundary option is used.
• Improved the speed of displaying area layers that have a large number of lines.
• Changed the program so that it won't crash if you print a map with a contoured view of point data with a histogram.
• Layer data that has "Field" for the type are included in ArcView Shape File exports.
• The Crop Summary Report in Site Pro now prints totals for area and yield.
• Archived Layer names can now included spaces.
• Changed Quick Yields so it looks for existing layers by the selected layer and category. Previously we searched for the first layer found in the first category, which wasn't always the correct layer (when the same layer name is used in multiple categories).
• Changed Quick Yields so that it will now always autodetect Case AFS and some PF3000 yield data (so it won't ask what type of yield data you're importing).
• Changed Quick Yields so that yield data with bad GPS times will not be stacked on top of each other. This related to yield data collected with the Ag Leader GPS receiver.
• Changed Quick Yields so that Micro Trac Flag/Marker data can be imported.
• Changed Quick Yields for problems where in rare cases some Ag Leader data would not import unless each field is imported individually.
• Fixed problems where printing maps with legends would sometimes cause error messages. These error messages sometimes happened while performing other functions after printing.
• Changed Quick Yields so that Metric Yields convert to the correct unit of measure.

Farm Site Mate:
• Farm Site Mate now includes user-configurable legends. These legends can also be saved as templates for future use.
• Farm Site Mate has the ability to log data from the Micro Trak yield monitor and the EM38 device. Data can be displayed in a color map on the go and logged to a file.
• Farm Site Mate can handle "Suspended Logs". This means you can stop in the middle of logging something (such as a boundary) and log something different (such as a point) and then resume what you were originally logging.
• Farm Site Mate VRA now includes an Advanced Option in which the program will not log positions when the sprayer boom is turned off.
• Includes updated Navman drivers. These drivers work with Com 8 and work with the 3800 series of iPAQ. The driver also fixes problems with lockups in the prior version.

Farm Stock:
• Farm Stock has an all-new interface. The program fits within the normal "map area" of Farm Trac. This gives a much larger screen and an interface that works more closely with Farm Trac and Funds.
• Farm Stock uses an Explorer like "tree view" for selecting animals from locations and groups.
• The Blood Lines area can now display and print blood lines for as many generations as you like.
• The program will allow you to save weights at an unlimited number of different ages.
• The program gives you the ability to wean and transfer more than one animal at a time.

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Version 8.3 Update Features

The following is a list of changes that were included in Version 8.3, which was released in May 7, 2002 (this is in addition to the changes made in version 8.0- 8.2).

Farm Trac:
• Fix Notations so "acres" no longer has an extra "s" on the end.
• Fixed bug where entering total acres (for equipment with acres as the charge unit) would copy the quantity to all fields instead of pro-rating based on field sizes.
• Fixed the inventory quantity being recalculated in the Farming box whenever the area farmed was changed.
• Fixed bug where clicking inside the "Area Farmed" of the Farming box would reset the Actual Rate to the Expected Rate.
• Changed Copy Project so copying Supplies only now includes REI information.

Farm Funds:
• The Invoice/Statement report has been reformatted to include due dates and comments (that are entered in the dialog box before the statement is printed). The report will also summarize harvested crop sales so fields are not listed. The report is now formatted so it will fit in window envelopes.
• The General Ledger Detail Report now includes check numbers.
• Narrowed the width of some columns on the Account Register so it will fit better when printed on some printers.
• Changed the Budget Setup box and Budget Reports so they accounts are listed alphabetically.
• Fixed date range on people enterprise statements so that the hours worked are only for the dates on the report not all time.
• Changed the W-2 box so it only lists the employees that were paid in the year to be reported (employees terminated in a prior year are no longer listed).
• Changed the W-2 box so the Print button is not the default button because it is too easy to send the W-2's directly to the printer.
• Changes to support new magnetic media reporting of W-2 data.
• Allow using the enter key to close the W-2 dialog box.
• Increased the column width in the Batch Print checks box so that the scrollbar does not cut off the cents on dollar amounts.
• The Employee Summary Report dialog box now lists people in alphabetical order, last name first.
• Changed the Feed box so it no longer lists deleted supplies.
• Fixed bug where renaming a checking account would cause loss of the last reconciliation date.
• Fixed pictures on the Calculate Pay and Payroll worksheet buttons on the Time and Pay dialog box to match the pictures on the Payroll toolbar.
• Animal Loss box now uses the date in the Dialog box (before it always used the Working Date).

Farm Site & Site Pro:
• Changed the way layers are loaded so layers with a large number of lines display substantially faster. This affects soil type layers with large numbers of small lines.
• Changed Line Widths so they work with metrics.
• Fixed Transparent Backgrounds so it works properly.
• Changed the Shape File import routine so columns that have blank names do not cause problems in the program.
• Changed the Shape File import routine so columns with duplicate header names do not cause problems in the program.

Farm Site Mate:
• Tee Jet controller read back fixed so that only complete records are parsed.
• Hiniker controller now has option to use or not use the Ag Leader snapshot protocol.
• Added Hardi controller.
• Added Kvernland controller.
• The program asks "Are you sure" before deleting objects.
• Site Mate can now run from a PC Card.
• Allow Implement switch on any comm port not just the port the GPS is plugged into. This means you can use a Navman with the implement switch plugged into Com 1 (before the implement switch had to be plugged into the same Com port as the GPS receiver).

Farm Trac Mate:
• Changed the program so when you edit a supply usage that was applied to less than the entire field it no longer defaults back to the entire field.
• Added "Expected Rate" for supply usage. This stops the problem where the program was computing expected rates and the quantities would change from field to field due to rounding.
• Changed harvested crops so quantities harvested can have three decimal places.
• Updated the layout of the scale ticket box and buttons used.
• Conversion to fix people with $0.00 cost from Trac Mate. There was a bug in the past where the cost for people (from Funds) did not get applied to the fields where the people worked (if the hours were entered in Trac Mate). Version 8.3 includes a conversion to fix these (prior hours will have a cost applied to them).

Version 8.4 Update Features

The following is a list of changes that were included in Version 8.4, which was released on September 10, 2002 (this is in addition to the changes made in version 8.0- 8.3).

All Programs:
• Registration may now be done completely over the internet with registration numbers automatically e-mailed back 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• A translation utility has been created so dealers and others can easily translate and localize the software.

Farm Trac & Site Pro:
• A new Seed Variety report that includes; field, variety, planting rate and total quantity has been added.
• Updated the Supply Properties for fertilizers so you can have an unlimited number of nutrients that are user definable (previously you were limited to just N, P, & K).
• The Pointer Tool now has four different uses (available through a drop-down on the button):
    • Standard "Rectangle" which is what it has always done
    • "Circle" which allows you to select a circular area by clicking
        in the center of the circle and dragging out to make the circle
        bigger
    • "Polygon" which allows you to left click around an irregular shaped
        area and right-click to select everything inside that area. This
        option will be very important when selecting an area within a
        yield map.
    • "Invert Selection" which selects everything outside the
        highlighted area
• A "Measure Tool" has been added. This tool works like the "Multi-line Tool". You left-click to draw a "measuring line". The distance of the line is displayed at the bottom of the screen. When you right-click, the measuring line goes away.
• The "Circle Tool" now has two different uses (available through a drop-down on the button):
    • "Diameter" which is what the circle tool has always done where
        you draw a circle by clicking on the outside and dragging.
    • "Radius" which allows you to draw a circle by clicking in the center
        of the circle and dragging out to make the circle bigger.
• Changed the Tool Window (Supplies, Equipment, Information & Layers) so it now defaults to the last tab that was opened (each time you start the program).
• Added an option for "Bicubic Interpolation" for images in the Calibrate program.
• Changed the conversion from Purchased to Distributed Units so that it no longer truncates numbers with decimal place.

Farm Funds:
• Check numbers can now work with characters. This means you can build a list for check numbers such as ATM, Debit Card, and other entries that have no check number.
• A new Bin Activity report that lists grain in and out of a storage location has been added.
• The Budget box and report now lists accounts in alphabetical order.
• Payments & Purchases, and Income & Sales boxes now list the Journal Entry that will be used for the transaction so this can be referenced on an invoice or check.
• Changed the Loan Payment & Other Expense boxes so you can now use the Tab key to go from the top section to the bottom (Enterprise) section.
• Changed the program so it no longer fills in "0.00" in data entry boxes that are for currency. This means users no longer have to delete the amounts before typing (when using a mouse).
• VAT/GST now includes a User ID. For users in the UK, the program has been configured to include "Box Numbers" for totals on the report. The report was also fixed so it no longer gets cut off on the right.
• Changed the program so it works with all currencies supported by Windows.
• Changed the Field Activity Report to include landlord share in total quantity harvested.
• Changed the calculation of payroll wages on People enterprise statements to only include pay during the date range of the report.

Farm Site & Site Pro:
• Added direct import of Green Star data (.gsy file) from card.
• Each layer can now have a Farm, Field, Year, Crop and Category (where category can include things such as yield, soil tests, soil types, etc…).
• Layer Management allows users to sort by Farm, Field, Year Crop and Category. You can select as many of these as you like to sort by. This makes it easier to find and use the layers that you want!
• The Calibrate program can now download images directly from the internet. Just type in a known coordinate on the map (or capture a coordinate from previously created maps such as government road & waterway maps) and the map will automatically be downloaded from the internet and will be calibrated with GPS. These maps will automatically line up with any other GPS maps that you have (including road & waterway maps).
• The program allows you to change "Text" data on a layer to "Choice". When this is done the program will build a choice list of all the data on the layer. This is useful for soil type data and data collected with Site Mate. With past versions of Farm Site & Site Pro you could not make a legend on soil type data that was imported as a shape file or Site Mate text data. With the new feature, you can go to Layer Management and right-click on the layer and select "Properties" and change the "text" attribute to "choice" and then make your legend.
• The Calibrate program supports the direct loading of tfw, jpw and bpw files. The Calibrate program uses the GPS referencing that is included to automatically calibrate the map.
• Changed Exported Shape Files so they now include Yes/No attributes.
• Fixed the "Import as Lines" option so it works properly in the Quick Yields Import.
• Changed UTM display to use the selected datum not always NAD83.

Farm Site Mate:
• Site Mate includes Calibrate program that allows users to load images and calibrate them (if necessary). These images can then be transferred directly to Site Mate on a Pocket PC or other device from the Calibrate program (without using Windows Explorer).
• Geo-referenced .jpg and .bmp maps that come from the Calibrate program can be loaded as background maps.
• Added total length of multiple paths as an option on the right click menu.
• Added Farm Scan controller to VRA list.
• Added Krone counter module use for logging data from flow meters.
• Added integration with Raven Guide Mate.
• Modified LH Agro controller so the program can now read the as applied data being sent back by the controller.
• Added support for updated Kverneland controller.
• Created a version of Site Mate for the Raven Viper.
• Fixed MT 9000 to support the unit going to PHOLD instead of 0 for the rate
• Changes to handle version 1.0.0 of the Micro Trak GeoMarker that output the wrong number of bytes for the yield record.

Version 8.5 Update Features

The following is a list of changes included in Version 8.5 (this list also includes 8.4 features).

All Programs:
. Registration may now be done completely over the internet with registration numbers automatically e-mailed back 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
. A translation utility has been created so dealers and others can easily translate and localize the software.

Farm Trac & Site Pro:
. Includes a new Seed Variety report that shows field, variety, planting rate, and total quantity.
. Supply Properties for fertilizers have an unlimited number of nutrients that are user definable (previously you were limited to just N, P, & K).
. The Pointer Tool now has four different uses (available through a drop-down on the button):
   - Rectangle selection
   - Circle selection
   - Polygon selection allows you to left click around an irregular
      shaped area and right-click to select everything inside the
      area. This option will be very important when selecting an
      area within a yield map.
   - Invert selection selects everything outside the highlighted area.
. A Measure tool has been added. This tool works like the Multi-line Tool. Left-click to draw a measuring line. The distance of the line is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Right-click and the measuring line goes away.
. The Circle Tool now has two different uses (available through a drop-down on the button):
   - Diameter allows you to draw a circle by clicking on the
      outside and dragging.
   - Radius allows you to draw a circle by clicking dragging out
      to make the circle bigger.
. The Tool Window (Supplies, Equipment, Information & Layers) now defaults to the last tab that was opened (each time you start the program).
. Added an option for "Bicubic Interpolation" for images in the Calibrate program.
. Changed the conversion from Purchased to Distributed Units so that it no longer truncates numbers with decimal places.
. Added Pan tool.
. Added mouse wheel zoom.
. Copy Project options have been added.
. The Field Report is now date sensitive allowing date ranges to be set
. Allow filtering General notes by note type.

Farm Funds:
. Check numbers can now work with characters. This means you can build a list for ck #s such as ATM, Debit Card, and other entries that have no check #.
. A new Bin Activity report that lists grain in and out of a storage location has been added.
. The Budget box and report now lists accounts in alphabetical order.
. Payments & Purchases, and Income & Sales boxes now list the Journal Entry that will be used for the transaction so this can be referenced on an invoice or check.
. Changed the Loan Payment & Other Expense boxes so you can now use the Tab key to go from the top section to the bottom (Enterprise) section.
. Changed the program so it no longer fills in "0.00" in data entry boxes that are for currency. This means users no longer have to delete the amounts before typing (when using a mouse).
. VAT/GST now includes a User ID. For users in the UK, the program has been configured to include "Box Numbers" for totals on the report. The report was also fixed so it no longer gets cut off on the right.
. Changed the program so it works with all currencies supported by Windows.
. Changed the Field Activity Report to include landlord share in total quantity harvested.
. Changed the calculation of payroll wages on People enterprise statements to only include pay during the date range of the report.
. Added 2003 tax tables.
. Added the ability to void or edit dates for livestock births, transfers, feedings, and deaths.

Farm Site & Site Pro:
. Added direct import of Green Star data (.gsy file) from card.
. Each layer can now have a Farm, Field, Year, Crop and Category (where category can include things such as yield, soil tests, soil types, etc…).
. Layer Management allows users to sort by Farm, Field, Year Crop and Category. You can select as many of these as you like to sort by. This makes it easier to find and use the layers that you want!
. Added import of RDS as applied logs.
. Added the RDS treatment plan export.
. Added the functionality to the yield reports to show either the wet or dry yield.
. Increased space for Field and commodity names.
. The Calibrate program can now download images directly from the internet. Just type in a known coordinate on the map (or capture a coordinate from previously created maps such as government road & waterway maps) and the map will automatically be downloaded from the internet and will be calibrated with GPS. These maps will automatically line up with any other GPS maps that you have (including road & waterway maps).
. The program allows you to change "Text" data on a layer to "Choice". When this is done the program will build a choice list of all the data on the layer. This is useful for soil type data and data collected with Site Mate. With past versions of Farm Site & Site Pro you could not make a legend on soil type data that was imported as a shape file or Site Mate text data. With the new feature, you can go to Layer Management and right-click on the layer and select "Properties" and change the "text" attribute to "choice" and then make your legend.
. The Calibrate program supports the direct loading of tfw, jpw and bpw files. The Calibrate program uses the GPS referencing that is included to automatically calibrate the map.
. Exported Shape Files now include Yes/No attributes.
. Fixed the "Import as Lines" option so it works properly in the Quick Yields Import.
. Changed UTM display to use the selected datum not always NAD83.
. Added the functionality to export field names to the Fieldstar database (Open Office).
. Added the ability to show the description on polygon layer.

Farm Site Mate:
. Site Mate includes Calibrate program that allows users to load images and calibrate them (if necessary). These images can then be transferred directly to Site Mate on a Pocket PC or other device from the Calibrate program (without using Windows Explorer).
• Geo-referenced .jpg and .bmp maps that come from the Calibrate program can be loaded as background maps.
. Added total length of multiple paths as an option on the right click menu.
. Added Farm Scan controller to VRA list.
. Added Krone counter module use for logging data from flow meters.
. Added integration with Raven Guide Mate.
. Modified LH Agro controller so the program can now read the as applied data being sent back by the controller.
. Added support for updated Kverneland controller.
. Created a version of Site Mate for the Raven Viper.
. Fixed MT 9000 to support the unit going to PHOLD instead of 0 for the rate.
. Changes to handle version 1.0.0 of the Micro Trak GeoMarker that output the wrong number of bytes for the yield record.

Version 8.6 Update

Farm Works version 8.6 is available for free download for owners of 8.4 or higher. This download will only update installed Farm Works Software programs that are version 8.4 or higher. The size of the download is 4.4 Meg.

Download 8.6 update:
www.farmworks.com/update

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