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Creating a Crop Summary Report

The Crop Summary Report allows you to create a custom report for your fields. The crop summary report is useful for making reports for crop insurance, FSA and landlord reporting. You will choose various items such as Field Record information, FSA information, and Legal Description information to print on your report.

To display the Crop Summary Report:

1. Select History from the menu bar.
2. Select Crops from the drop-down menu.
3. Select Summary Report from the drop-down menu. Alternately, from the Keyboard type <Alt> I, then O then S.
4. The Crop Summary Report box will appear.
5. The Crop Summary Report Fields Tab allows you to restrict the fields printed on your report. Under Fields to Include select the Year, Commodity, Landlord, and County for which you want to print the report. Note that if you want to print more than one year (or Commodity, etc) you will need to select <All>. Note: click on the All button to select all the displayed fields, click the None button to de-select all the displayed fields.
6. On the right side of the window make sure that all the fields you wish to print are highlighted (colored in). If there are highlighted fields that you do not want on your report, click on them to deselect them.

In the Records Tab select the information you want to print for each field by checking the box next to each item. Checked items will be displayed as columns in your printed report.

In the Report Header tab enter the Title for the report plus any Subtitles you want to appear in the Subtitles boxes. The subtitles are often used for name and address information. Check the Add Lines to Printed Report box to print the report with horizontal grid lines.

9. In the Report Tab you will see how the report will be printed based on the information entered in the Fields and Records tabs.
10. Select the Print button to print the report. When you exit the report you will be returned to the Crop Summary Report box where you can create another report to print or select File and then Exit when you are finished printing reports.

11. If you want to export the report so it can be loaded into another program, click on File and then Export or choose the Export button. Choose a filename and location at the Export Crop Summary Report window and save the file. The report will be saved as a *.csv file which is a comma separated ASCII text file that can be loaded into a spreadsheet or database program.

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