Documentation

Everything Zone Forge does, explained.

From your first prescription to the algebra behind every rate. The docs are written alongside the code — when something changes in the app, the doc changes too.

Getting started

Sign up, connect your platform, upload your first soil samples, generate your first prescription. About 10 minutes from start to finish.

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Soil sample upload

CSV and Excel formats, supported labs, shapefile boundaries, column auto-detection, the four visualization modes, soft warnings, and how interpolation works.

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Soil Health report card

Upload a soil test and get a graded report card — worst nutrient first, color- and word-coded, with variability hints and your fertility trend across past uploads. In 26 states we grade in that state university's own rating words; everywhere else we show the honest measured value and tell you why. pH and lime are calibrated for all 50 states.

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Recommendation sources

A calibrated land-grant source for every state — a library of 40+ extension publications — plus the corn-belt and Mid-Atlantic tables (Iowa PM 1688, Tri-State 2020, Penn State) with the calibration data and citations behind every cell. 26 states grade nutrients in their own university's rating words; pH and lime are calibrated for all 50.

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Calculations & cost model

Every formula. Hybrid decision tree, nutrient-to-product conversions, lime engine, IDW interpolation parameters, cost-per-acre derivation.

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Prescription generation

Zone count, polygon cleanup, headland buffers, click-to-reassign, inline rate editing, the multi-year buildup planner, multi-product blends, and the stacked Litter → Potash → Nitrogen workflow.

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Connected platforms

OAuth setup, the four-step upload pipeline, validation rules, status polling, partial-success handling, and troubleshooting.

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