This update to Gatekeeper Cloud has improved the process of setting up a field with the areas and crops needed. We’ve pulled everything into the same screen to make navigation easier, enabling users to update multiple parts of a field at the same time.

Previously users needed to set up their field areas, and then separately allocate a crop to each area. With this update, these two screens have been pulled together into a new look:

The improved layout also means you can see all the parts of a split field in one screen:

Alongside the updated layout, we’ve also enhanced related features.

Setting up crop sequences is now improved, no longer requiring one sequence to be marked as ‘complete’ before another can be set up. Instead, you can set up a whole season’s cropping ahead of time, and use the new ‘Current crop’ marker to mark which crops are active.

Dividing a field into more than one crop is also easier, with automatic suffixes suggested.

We’ve also added a ‘Failed crop’ marker, which enables you to retain the details of what the crop in the field was before failure, but takes the failed crop out of current cropping. Failed crops are easy to identify in reports and across the program as the crop is displayed with a strikethrough:

Finally, although we hope you don’t need to use it, we’ve also added a crop failure wizard! The wizard will guide you through the process of taking an existing crop and marking it as either wholly or partially failed, and then adding the detail of what will happen next in the field.