Grower Observations let you record field notes and photos against a specific date and site, directly from your BioScout dashboard. Use them to note things like crop growth stage, visible disease symptoms or nearby activities (such as mulching, pruning or spraying) that could affect your spore readings.
Like spray logs, your observations appear as markers on the spore graphs, helping you build a season-long record and relate on-the-ground conditions to your data.
Before You Start
You need an Organisation Admin or Organisation User role to add or edit a grower observation
Only Organisation Admins can delete a grower observation
If you do not have the right access, ask your Organisation Admin to upgrade you to one of these roles.
Step-by-Step: Adding a Grower Observation
Go to Notes > Grower Observations and select Register Grower Observation
Select the Site you want to add an observation for
Enter the Date the observation relates to
Add your notes into the Information describing what you observed - for example, crop growth stage, disease symptoms or key seasonal activities
Optional but recommended: attach one or more photos to support your notes via Attach Image
Select Create Grower Observation to save
Your observation will now appear as a marker on the relevant graphs, so you and the BioScout team can relate it to the spore concentration and infection risk data for that period:
Hot Tip
Log observations as you go rather than saving them up for the end of the season. This will enable you to spot insights while the season is in progress and provide a richer dataset for review with the Customer Success team.
Step-by-Step: How to Update a Grower Observation
From the Notes table:
Go to the Grower Observations tab
Identify the observation you wish to update and click on the pencil icon under the Actions column on the far-right hand side
Update the notes, date or photos as needed
Select Save to update the record
From the Graph view:
Identify the Grower Observation you wish to update and click into the blue icon on the graph
Click Update and edit the site, date, information or photos as needed
Select Save to update the record
Step-by-Step: How to Delete a Grower Observation
Go to Notes > Grower Observations
Identify the observation you wish to delete and click on the bin icon under the Actions column on the far-right hand side
Select Delete
Reminder: only an Organisation Admin can delete a grower observation. If you don't have the right access, ask your Organisation Admin or contact [email protected].