Management Zones - The Assessment

Now that you've become familiar with how to create Management Zones and some tips and tricks, it's time to try it out!

1. Choose a field that has at least 3 years of yield history.  
   1. Contact your supervisor and ask them for a Grower's field that you can use.
   2. If you do not have a supervisor, email kmcwhirter@premiercrop.com and ask.
2. Using PowerPoint, Word, or some sort of program, send in evidence that you have used the following reference layers:
   1. Relative or Actual Yield
   2. A Processed Layer (You don't have to use it, just show that you know to navigate there or find those layers in order to add to a map, if need be.)
3. Add Learning Blocks, if the space allows.  If it doesn't, defend why you did not place any in the field.  Remember placement matters, as you want good data at the end of the year.
   1. Blocks are 60'x60' in the Management Zone tool.
   2. The area surrounding the Learning Blocks is 120' or 2 blocks.  For the best data analysis, leave two cell buffers between the Learning Block and:
      1. Boundaries
      2. Waterways
      3. Other Zones
      4. Other Learning Blocks
         
          
4. Once you have completed your recommendation(s), download your Planting PDF.
5. Email the following to kmcwhirter@premiercrop.com:
   1. Planting PDF
   2. PowerPoint/Word document with screenshots of 2a and 2b
   3. A paragraph defending your Management Zones and recommendation(s) to the Grower when you present your PDF and they say:  That's a really pretty map, but why did you do what you did?  What went into making these zones?"