How do I Generate, Export, and Download a VRS Prescription?

 

Overview:

The Corteva VRS Service calculates a variable rate seeding prescription (VRS Rx) for products placed across each crop zone in the entire operation that has a product placed and a designated yield target.

This article covers:

• Generating a Prescription.
• Exporting a Prescription.
• Downloading a Prescription.

Requirements:

• Yield Goal set on crop zone.
• Seed Product placed on field.

Process:

Below you can find the process in 3 parts: Generating a Prescription, Exporting a Prescription, and Downloading a Prescription.

Generating a Prescription:

1. From the Navigate to an Operation box, search for an operation and select it or select one of your three most recently visited operations.
2. Verify the correct year is displayed under the Crop Year drop-down menu.
3. Select the Apps Launcher .
4. Select VRS.
5. On the Stand Operation page, view a list of corn and soybean crop zones in the selected operation.
6. If the field does not already contain a Yield Goal, select Set Yield Goal.  If a yield goal is in place, skip to step 8. 
7. Enter a yield target for the field.  If the field contains an Irrigation Zones layer, enter both irrigated and non-irrigated yield targets.                               
8. Select Preview  to apply the yield goal. 
9. Select Save. 
10. Select one or more rows with field names. 
    • The Select All check box at the top of the field list selects all crop zones that contain a product and yield goal. 
    • The check box located in the left of the field-name row selects only that field. 
11. Select GET RX at the top of the field list to generate a prescription.
12. The Planting Rate Inputs dialog box allows the user to adjust settings that impact the prescription: 
    • For Corn Crop Zones, the inputs window allows modification of Stand loss, Grain Price, Seed Cost, Min. Yield, Max. Yield, Minimum seeding rate, and Max seeding rate.
    • For Soybean Crop Zones, the inputs window allows modification of the Local Standard Seeding Rate (the rate the user would normally flat-rate on the field) as well as minimum and maximum seed rates. 
      Note: The program allows but does not recommend values under 125,000 or over 220,000 seeds/acre for soybeans. The program does not allow seeding rates above 300,000 or below 50,000.
      
13. Select Continue to generate the VRS Rx. 
14. The VRS Rx can be previewed and edited by selecting the field-name row. 

 Exporting a Prescription: 

1. After the prescription is generated, select one or more rows with field names. 
   • The Select All check box at the top of the field list selects all crop zones that contain a product and yield goal. 
   • The check box located in the left of the field-name row selects only that field. 
2. Select Export.                                                               
3. From the Export Recommendations window:
   • Select a Device Compatibility to match the correct monitor.
   • Fill out an email for Email Delivery.
   • Optional: Check Additional Delivery Options to send the VRS Rx to My John Deere. 
   • Verify that the correct crop zones are included in the table at the bottom of the window. 
   • Optional: include a map and summary PDF with the export. 
   • Optional: include only the product placed on the field. Un-selecting this box exports a separate prescription for every product placed on the operation for every field. 
4. Select Export at the lower-right corner of the Export Recommendations window to send the prescription to the designated email. 
5. Select the Export Status button at the top-right corner to monitor the progress of the export. 

Downloading a Prescription: 

• Download via email:
  The designated email account will receive a message from Corteva.
  1. Open the email from Corteva.
  2. Select the hyperlink to download the zipped file, proceed to step 4 in the next section.
• Export Status queue:
  Receive the download from the queue.
  
  1. Select the Export Status button found at the upper-right corner of Stand.
  2. Select the zip icon to download prescription files directly.
  3. The downloaded file appears different depending on the computer's default browser: 
     • Internet Explorer downloads appear in a View Downloads window.
     • Chrome downloads appear at the bottom of the internet browser.
       NOTE: If the VRS Rx is downloaded and the the internet browser is closed, the file can be found in the Downloads Folder on the PC: C:\Users\<username>\Downloads
  4. Locate the downloaded and compressed VRS RX. Verify that it is in the location you want on the computer before proceeding to the next step.
  5. To extract the zipped download, right-click it and select 7-zip (Pioneer computers) or Winzip (most standard Microsoft Computers) and select Extract Here.
  6. The extracted file is ready to be transferred to a USB to be uploaded to the monitor.