VRAFY Knowledge Base

VRAFY Virtual Agronomist

Published November 6th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

What is the Virtual Agronomist? We've developed the Virtual Agronomist to help you analyze each of your fields with ease. When you run the Virtual Agronomist on your field, it will analyze the soil nutrients included in the most recent soil test and produce you a map showing areas of your field that need specific targets to improve your yields. Th

Crop Removal Prescriptions

Published November 6th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

Automated Crop Removal Prescriptions Automatically turn your yield maps into variable rate phosphorus and potassium prescriptions with VRAFY! When looking at your yield maps, does your yield stay consistent across the entire field? Of course not… so why apply fertilizer that way? Is creating a variable rate prescription too time consuming and you

Formula Groups

Published January 7th, 2026 by Sawyer Hansen

In this video, VRAFY Precision Agronomist, Regan Heine, will walk you through the formula library to help answer an important question: What does each formula group mean? Regan dives into the 9 formula groups within VRAFY’s FRx page, breaking down the types of nutrients; we can map and how each formula works. From nutrient, manure, and seeding ma

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VRAFY Formula Library

Published November 6th, 2025 by Sawyer Hansen

The Formula Library is our key to building successful prescriptions. These formulas allow us to use yield data, soil data, or both in an equation to help your soil meet your goals and produce more yield. It's a simple 3 step process, select the group that you want to run prescriptions out of, select your formula, and create your prescriptions. Pr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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