All field records in Gatekeeper have the capacity to be split into multiple cropping records – this is frequently used to reflect the fact that one field may be growing more than one crop, or have a crop plus environmental area.
To reflect this in the mapping module, every field has the capacity to hold two types of boundary. The ‘whole field’ boundary is the entirety of the field including any cropping splits; ‘cropping year’ boundary is the different parts of the field which combine to make one parcel.
If you do not have any split cropping records, the ‘whole field’ and ‘cropping year’ boundaries are exactly the same, and changing one will change the other.
Once a field contains split cropping records, the ‘whole field’ and ‘cropping year’ boundaries will be different. In this case, changing one will not result in a change in the other.
Both whole field and cropping year boundaries are managed between years by the field region (for more information please click here).