VRAFY Knowledge Base

How do I add previous year's soil data?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

To add previous year's soil data, go to https://www.vrafy.com/ and go to Returning Users. https://www.vrafy.com/returning-users/ - Link Enter in Customer Name Upload CSV with longitude and latitude or zipped Shapefiles And any additional comments VRAFY Staff will get your results uploaded to our system. Shapefiles All we need is .shp. To Zip, righ

John Deere 2630 Display

Published June 27th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Plug your USB into the port on the right side of the display. A popup window will appear asking you what you would like to do with the USB. Choose Export Data Once Data completes exporting. Remove the USB drive. Return to the computer and follow the steps in our Importing Data to Operations Center article: 103 - Uploading Data How to Uplo

Navigating to Soil Points using Operations Center Mobile App

Published April 23rd, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

If you have additional questions or you would like some assistance, feel free to call or text us at 507-800-0898 or schedule some time with one of our experts here: Schedule Meeting

Raven Viper Pro

Published October 2nd, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Importing prescriptions into a Raven Viper Pro Monitor. File Requirements: Required: .shp .shx .dbf Optional: .prj Formatting: Create a folder on your USB drive and name it viper Enter the folder Create another folder named misc Enter the folder Create another folder named rxmaps Move the Shapefiles (.shp .shx .dbf .prj) into the rxmaps folder

Do I need a John Deere Operations Center account for VRAFY?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Yes, you will need to create an Operations Center account for VRAFY. VRAFY uses John Deere Operations Center as it's customer interface. We use Operations Center because it's free to get an account, it is extremely user-friendly, and it has a mobile app so you can bring your soil data and satellite imagery with you on the go. Currently using Fiel

VRAFY Plus

Published November 6th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

VRAFY Plus gives you the most value for your operation. You gain agronomic insights with our SPY Analysis and Virtual Agronomist tools. Leverage your insights using the prescription formula tools to build fertilizer prescriptions customized for every field. Includes Features from VRAFY Basic Satellite Imagery and Auto-Run Crop Removal prescripti

How much does VRAFY Cost?

Published June 26th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Our Service Offerings: At VRAFY, we offer 3 separate service offerings to fit your farm's needs. VRAFY Basic, Plus, and Complete. Subscriptions are good for 1 calendar year. You can only be enrolled in 1 service level at a time. You can upgrade from a lower service level at any time, you can downgrade to a lower service level at your annual rene

Soil Sampling with VRAFY

Published April 23rd, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Overview This article walks you through collecting soil samples as a VRAFY customer. It includes an overview of the equipment needed and the in-field process. Process Before Going to the Field Contact VRAFY to request soil sample points to be created and sent to your John Deere Operations Center. We will need to know the following: Will you be using

Precision Planting Gen 3 20/20

Published June 27th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

This process can take some time! Make sure the tractor is either powered on, or connected to a battery tender to ensure you do not kill the battery. With the display powered on, plug your USB into the side of your 20/20 Display. Press Setup in the Bottom Right hand corner Choose Data at the bottom of the right-hand menu Export should be selected

Gen 4 or G5 Displays

Published June 27th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Step by Step guide Insert your USB Drive Is your display a Command Center Display or a Universal Display? Command Center Display- Armrest Display (4600 or G5) Universal Display- Mounted on the corner post (4240, 4640, or G5 Universal) Plug the USB into the port next to the AUX port near the bottom of the back-right window. Plug the USB into

Manually Importing Data to Operations Center

Published October 10th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

In Operations Center, on the top toolbar, select the More dropdown, then select Files. Once You're in the Files Page, you can select the Upload Files Button at the top. Then chose your work type that you are adding. For any monitor data, you will select Work Data You can now either click and drag your files to the box, or press the Choose

102 - Land

Published June 9th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

How you can use Land Land allows you to manage your fields, boundaries, guidance lines and flags. Advanced features allow you to merge fields together, export field reports, create new field boundaries from field data, and even create AutoPath (from Boundaries) guidance lines for Gen4 and newer John Deere displays. How to get to “Land” From any p

Smoothing a Formula Rx

Published October 30th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

This article will show you how to smooth a formula prescription to make it smoother for your rate controller. Edit Tutorial

VRAFY Data Advantage

Published November 6th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Bringing all your farm data together. Whether you need help getting started, or you've got a mess that you've been ignoring for too long, we will help ensure your Operations Center account is cleaned up and easy to use. Services: Client, Farm, and Field Management Field organization to ensure that you don't have duplicated fields. You don't ha

Precision Planting 20/20 Monitors

Published October 2nd, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Importing prescriptions into a Precision Planting 20/20 Monitor. Gen1, Gen 2, and Gen 3 monitors all require the same format when uploading prescriptions. File Requirements: Required: .shp .shx .dbf Optional: .prj Formatting: Create a folder on your USB drive. Name the folder Sendto2020 Move the Shapefiles (.shp .shx .dbf .prj) into the folder

VRAFY Basic

Published November 6th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Get Started with VRAFY Basic Satellite Imagery- Use Satellite Imagery layers to Scout your fields more efficiently. Imagery layers will be loaded into your Operations Center account and you can use Operations Center Mobile to scout the fields by targeting your areas that show higher vegetation or plant mass. This reduces your time scouting allowi

Creating Farm Level Harvest Reports

Published November 4th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

How to use these Reports You can create these reports to show your yield reports broken down by field or by variety. You can filter by crops and fields if needed. Navigate to Work Analyzer From any page in Operations Center, click on the Analyze Dropdown and select the Work Analyzer tool. Select your Work Type, Season, and Crop Type Use the dro

How To Find Your Soil and Imagery Layers

Published April 30th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Overview VRAFY data layers will be available within the Field Analyzer tool within the John Deere Operations Center™. Follow the steps below if you are unfamiliar with navigating this tool. This example covers soil data, but the steps are similar for Satellite imagery, Soil Sampling Plans, or VRAFY-generated prescriptions. Process If you have add

Exporting Soil Data from Ag Leader SMS

Published April 30th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Overview Follow the steps in this article to export your historical soil test results stored in Ag Leader SMS so VRAFY can import them. They will be visible in your John Deere Operations Center and available for use in creating soil-based variable rate prescriptions. Process If you have additional questions or you would like some assistance, feel

Create Prescriptions from Satellite Imagery

Published April 30th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Overview This article covers the basics on the types of imagery and how to create a manual prescription from it. It includes an example of creating a prescription for 28% UAN Nitrogen application based on an in-season NDVI map, including a cost estimate. Process Chose the right Imagery Map Click "Analysis" next to your preferred Field Name Click t

Soil Point to Yield Analysis

Published November 7th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

What is the Soil Point to Yield Analysis? The Soil Point To Yield (SPY) Analysis is a report generated by VRAFY staff that compares the most recent soil test results to the most recent yield layer. The SPY Analysis plots a comparison of the yield to the soil data for each soil nutrient mapped plus several ratios. Rather than looking at the entire z

101 - Map and Field Analyzer

Published June 9th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

What it's used for: Map is the most commonly used portion of Operations Center. Within map, you can monitor your equipment, analyze your field data, compare or overlay maps next to or on top of each other and much more! Field Data Field(s) Menu When Fields is selected on the Left Menu, you'll see all of your fields listed with any fields that have

Connect Fieldview to John Deere Operations Center

Published April 30th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Overview This process will walk you through connecting your John Deere Operations Center with Climate FieldView to pull your yield, planting, and/or as-applied data from FieldView. The data retrieval for historic data will occur overnight after you make the connection, and automatically for any new data uploaded to FieldView in the future. This co

Filling Out A Midwest Labs CheckIn Sheet

Published April 23rd, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Overview Please complete the required information so that the lab can process the samples efficiently and get you your results as quickly as possible. If you intentionally didn't collect a sample, please note this on the sampling sheet next to the sample number(s) to help prevent delays from the lab waiting until all samples arrive. Required Infor

How frequent is the Satellite Imagery?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

The satellite imagery source we use takes a new image every 2 to 3 days. We cannot guarantee imagery to come through this frequently because of cloud and smoke cover. A cloud filter has been put in place so that images containing large amounts of clouds are not used, ensuring that any images that come through are good, clear images that provide yo

Creating field boundaries from existing data.

Published May 16th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Field Boundary Creation:

Exporting Field Boundaries from Ag Leader SMS

Published April 30th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Overview Using these steps, you will build a setup file for a John Deere display that can then be uploaded to VRAFY for field boundaries in your Operations Center and the VRAFY system. It will also include the existing Grower/Farm/Field naming structure from SMS. Process If you have additional questions or you would like some assistance, feel f

Common Display Prescription Formatting Guide

Published November 5th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Print this table Ag Leader Displays Insight Integra In-Command 800/1200 Data Storage USB X- Always Inserted X SD Card X Not Capable Import File Type Shapefiles X X X Other Folder Format USB Root .shp .shx .dbf .shp .shx .dbf .shp .shx .dbf 1st Folder .shp .shx .dbf .shp .shx .dbf .shp .shx .dbf 2nd Folder Export Data

104 - Connections

Published June 9th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Why you should use Connections: Connections in Operations Center are a great way to eliminate the manual work of moving data from your monitors into Operations Center, especially if you're already using a software that has telematics right in the cab with you. How to get to Connections: On the top toolbar in Ops Center, select Setup, then choose C

Creating A Prescription With VRAFY

Published April 25th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Overview In five steps, learn how to create and download customized variable rate fertilizer prescriptions using VRAFY. Plus or Complete Customers Only Creating your own prescriptions is available for VRAFY Plus and VRAFY Complete service level customers. Process Step 1: Launch the Formula Creation Tool Load a Soil Sample Results Layer in Field