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Farm Works Software
Version 8.0 - 8.2 Update Features
For a list of changes made in prior versions,
visit the "News" page section of the Farm Works
website (www.farmworks.com).
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.