Farms & Fields is where you manage your company details, land farms, paddocks, areas and boundaries.

The Map is the main day-to-day view for opening paddocks and viewing plans, soil, yield, livestock and history.

On mobile: bottom More → Farms & Fields.

The heading line says what you have, for example "2 farms · 44 fields · 44 mapped · 5,890 ha". Beside it are Add farm and an Actions menu with Import boundaries, Export boundaries, Import from John Deere and Import from CNH.

Each farm has Add field and a ••• menu with Import boundaries, Export boundaries, Edit farm and Delete farm. Each field is one row with its outline, its area and whether it is mapped (Boundary mapped, Pin mapped or No map shape). A field's ••• menu holds Edit, Split, Merge and Delete. When one of them can't be used yet, the menu says why, for example "Add a boundary before splitting this field".

On a new farm, the page shows two steps instead: add a farm, then add and map your first field.

Open the field's ••• menu → Edit. Under Boundary, choose Edit boundary on map (it reads Draw boundary when the paddock has no boundary yet). The boundary opens on the satellite map with a handle on every corner:

The area updates as you drag. If a corner is dragged across another edge, a warning says the area won't be right until it is fixed. A paddock in more than one piece, or with a dam or scrub cut out of it, keeps every piece and every cut-out, each with its own handles.

Boundaries imported from John Deere or CNH can have a corner every metre or so. Zoom in until the handles are far enough apart to grab. When a boundary has 150 or more corners, Simplify corners removes the ones the shape doesn't need, keeps the line within half a metre of where it was, and can be undone.

To draw a new boundary, tap the map to drop corners, then tap the first corner (it says Tap to finish) or choose Finish shape. Press Use this boundary to take the shape and area back to the paddock, then Save field. Nothing is saved until you do. If you didn't change the shape, the paddock's area stays as you typed it. It works the same on the phone apps: drag with your finger and pinch to zoom.

Use Actions → Import boundaries, or Import boundaries in a farm's ••• menu, to bring in a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Each paddock in the file comes in as one paddock however many pieces it is in, so a paddock split by a road or creek is no longer cut into "Creek Block 1" and "Creek Block 2". A dam, scrub block or gravel pit cut out of a paddock comes in as a real cut-out: it is drawn as a hole on the map and left out of the paddock's hectares. The review shows each paddock's real shape and says what it is, for example "2 pieces · 1 cut-out". When a paddock in the file is already in Phase, choose Update boundary or Skip.

To put a file's boundary onto one paddock, open its ••• menu → Edit → Import boundary (or Replace boundary). The whole shape comes in, pieces and cut-outs included.

Paddocks imported before 28 September 2026 are not changed. If one came in as several paddocks, delete the pieces and import the file again, or import it with Update boundary onto one of them and delete the rest.

Actions → Export boundaries sends paddock boundaries out of Phase. Tick a farm to take all its mapped paddocks, or open it and tick single paddocks; Find a farm or paddock searches by name. A farm's ••• menu → Export boundaries opens the same list with just that farm ticked. Then pick a format:

Every format carries each paddock's name, farm, total hectares and, where only part of it is cropped, its arable hectares. A paddock in more than one piece stays one paddock, and a cut-out stays a hole. Paddocks without a boundary are listed but can't be ticked. The shapefile includes a README explaining its columns. Phase remembers the format you last used on that device, and on the phone apps the file goes to the phone's save or share sheet. A file exported from Phase imports back as the same paddocks.

Every paddock has Total area, which follows its fence-line boundary, and can also have an optional Arable area, which is the hectares actually cropped. Add or edit the value under More → Farms & Fields → the paddock's ••• menu → Edit.

Plan Studio, crop plans, product requirements, costs per hectare, default completion area, yield per hectare and Phase Agent rate calculations use the arable area when it is present. Boundaries, map labels, farm totals and livestock stocking rates continue to use total area. A blank arable area means the whole paddock is cropped, so existing paddocks do not change until you enter one.

The boundary-import review for KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefiles also includes an Arable area box for each paddock. Use it when the imported fence-line area includes timber, dams or grazing country that will not be sown.

Connect More → Farm Setup & Connections → CNH FieldOps → Connect CNH, then open More → Farms & Fields → Actions → Import from CNH. CNH FieldOps is the account used by Case IH, New Holland and STEYR. If CNH isn't connected yet, Import from CNH goes straight to the CNH sign-in; if the sign-in can't start, for example because the plan doesn't include CNH, the reason shows in the import window.

On the iPhone or Android app, the CNH sign-in opens in a browser window over Phase. After you sign in, the phone asks to open Phase: tap Open and you are back where you started, on the CNH FieldOps page or Farms & Fields, with "CNH FieldOps connected." Back on Farms & Fields, choose Import from CNH to bring your paddocks in; the import doesn't start by itself. If the sign-in window stays open on an older version of the app, close it: the CNH FieldOps page checks again and shows the connection.

Select the source paddocks, choose the Phase farm and review the boundary before importing. The import window says CNH all the way through. Boundary holes such as dams remain holes rather than separate paddocks. On a second import, paddocks that came from CNH before are recognised by their CNH field ID ("Same CNH field ID"). On Phase Ultra, Phase can also read the fleet's engine hours on the CNH FieldOps page; on Pro, enter machine hours by hand. CNH does not currently provide completed work or yield-map imports in Phase; do not use the connection expecting those records. John Deere and CNH links can coexist without one overwriting the other.

The CNH FieldOps page has one header row: the connection as a dot and words (Checking, Connected with the company name, Reconnect needed or Not connected), then one main button and an Actions menu. The main button is Connect CNH or Reconnect CNH; once connected it is Load fleet or Refresh fleet on Phase Ultra, or Import fields on Pro. Actions holds Refresh and, once connected, Disconnect CNH, which asks you to confirm and leaves imported paddocks in place. Below are the account details (Company ID, Environment, Last sync), what Phase reads from CNH, and the fleet as Machines and Reporting hours.

On a computer, the bar at the top left of the Map holds Notes, Job, Measure, Layers and My location. Layers holds Crop Vigour, Soil and Rain / wind, with a tick beside the one that is showing, then Quick walkthrough and What’s new. On a phone, the round buttons down the right are My location, Layers (its menu opens to the left), Add job, Notes and Measure. A button whose mode or layer is on turns solid green with a white icon.

If you used the Plan tab before 10 October 2026, the Map shows a short What’s new on your paddocks once: changing a rate in one tap, recording a patch spray with Part of it, and adding a note to a job, each with a small moving demo. Next and Back move between them, and Got it or the cross closes it. It shows once per person, not once per device, so closing it on your phone means it does not show on the office computer. Open it again at any time from Layers → What’s new.

Pins on the map use plain, readable text on light chips: weather station readings, rain gauges, sensors, soil results, Note names, storage names and levels, measuring points and the yield badge. A weather station or rain gauge with a stale reading has a dashed edge and a small clock, and strong wind shows a warning triangle; zoom in close and the station card says it in words, such as "Stale" or "Strong wind". Sensors say under their name when they are offline or in warning. Storage pins show the name from mid zoom, then the level and contents as you zoom in. Measuring points sit exactly where you tap.

Tap My location and Phase shows where you are as a blue dot with a white edge. A pale ring around it shows how sure the phone's GPS is. The map centres on you, and never zooms out if you were already closer in.

Beside the button, Phase says what it is doing: Finding your location, Showing your location or Following you. When the GPS is unsure by more than 100 m it adds, for example, "GPS accurate to ±150 m". On a computer this sits just right of the bar at the top left; on a phone it opens to the left of the button.

While the dot is showing, Add a note here starts a new Note right where you are standing, with the paddock filled in, so a weed patch or a leaking trough in the middle of a paddock can be pinned without guessing.

The first tap asks to use your location. If that was refused, Phase says where to switch it back on: on an iPhone, Settings → Phase → Location; on Android, App info → Permissions → Location; in a browser, the site settings for Phase. If no position comes within 30 seconds, Phase says so rather than showing a dot it doesn't have. GPS works without phone reception, though the satellite picture may not load without it.

Phase remembers on each device whether you left it on, and turns it back on next time only if location is already allowed; it never asks as the map opens. The GPS runs only while the Map is open and on screen, and your position is not saved or sent anywhere (a Note you add keeps only its own pin). Guidance to a Note or a paddock uses the same dot; while it is running, My location steps aside.

Each paddock's name sits inside the paddock, in its roomiest spot, in white type that reads over the imagery. The crop's colour is a small square beside the crop's name and the paddock's outline, not a coloured box behind the label.

A paddock without a drawn boundary keeps its small dot for tapping, with its name beside it.

Every link that opens a paddock now opens its sheet on the map (Plan, Soil, Notes, Yield, Livestock and History), the same sheet you get by tapping it. That includes paddock links in Financial Performance, links from notifications and QR codes, and Phase Agent's Open field sheet. Phase Agent's Open paddocks opens the map, and Open crop plans opens Crop Plan Studio.

The older Fields page, a paddock table with its own Analytics, Crop plan, Soil records and Yield records tabs, has been retired, along with its per-paddock analytics scores. An old bookmark still lands somewhere sensible: a Fields link opens the map, a crop plan link opens Crop Plan Studio, soils open Soil Centre, yield opens Yield Centre and zones open Spatial.

After a paddock's harvest is marked done, the default farm map shows that season as finished: the boundary becomes white and dashed, the fill fades, and the label can show the harvested yield, such as Harvested · 4.2 t/ha.

The paddock stays in that finished state until a later season has a crop plan. Switching back to an earlier season still shows that season's own result. Soil, Crop Vigour, livestock and weather overlays continue to use their normal colours and are not changed by the harvested styling.

The main field keeps its record. Phase updates its boundary and area, moves the selected data, and then deletes the second field.

If you move history and linked records, Phase also requires the second field's crop plans to be moved. Review the record counts shown in the merge window before confirming.

Only continue when the preview boundary and New area correctly cover the intended combined paddock. Boundaries that do not share a clean edge can preview only one ring or an unsuitable outer shape. If the preview is wrong, cancel and fix the boundaries (••• → Edit → Edit boundary on map) or re-import them before trying again.

The merge does not combine every field-level record. The second field's top-level Notes text is not copied. Choosing History, soil, yield, notes and livestock links moves its completed work, soil tests, yields, yield maps, Notes, Jobs, Documents and livestock links onto the main field; if you leave it off, those Notes, livestock records, Jobs and Documents stay in Phase but lose their link to the deleted field. Zones and prescriptions never move and are removed when the second field is deleted. Plans or history you choose not to move are also removed with the second field.

If the main field already has a plan for the same season, moving the second field's plan can leave duplicate activities. Review every affected season after the merge and remove only the duplicates you have confirmed.

Phase moves the second field's plans and records in one step before it changes anything else. If that step is refused, both fields are left exactly as they were; read the message, fix the cause and try again. If an error appears after the records have moved, check both fields before retrying.

Phase replaces the original field with the two new fields. The larger new field keeps the original's crop plans and everything recorded on it: completed spray records, yields, Notes, soil tests and yield maps. Soil sites move to the new boundary they fall inside where location data is available.

In Phase, paddocks and fields are managed from the same Farms & Fields area, so the merge fields tool is also how you merge paddocks.

Open More → Farms & Fields, find the paddock and choose ••• → Delete. The confirm step lists what will be permanently deleted with it, such as plans and completed spray, seeding and fertiliser records; this cannot be undone, so export anything you need first. Markers, livestock records and jobs stay but lose their link to the paddock. If the paddock's records used stock, Phase also offers Put the stock these records used back into inventory and says how many products it covers. It is unticked by default, because the product really was used; tick it only if the stock is still in the shed, for example when the paddock was created by mistake.

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