Work Overview Tool: Analyze Harvest, Seeding, and Application Data

The Work Overview tool, introduced in fall 2025, helps you review field work across the season and compare it to your five-year average. It gives you a clearer picture of daily productivity, total acres covered, and how timing may have affected yield. This makes it easier to spot trends, measure progress, and make better decisions for the next season.

What the Tool Shows

The Work Overview tool organizes your work into categories such as harvesting, seeding, and application. From there, you can review performance by crop type and track how work changed over time. It also compares current-year results to your five-year average, so you can see whether you were ahead of or behind your normal pace.

For harvest, the tool shows:

• Average acres harvested per day.

• Total acres harvested.

• Comparison to your five-year average.

• Daily acres harvested across the full season.

Reviewing Harvest Progress

The harvest view gives you a season-long look at how much was harvested each day. A black line shows your current-year average, while a dotted line shows the five-year average. You can hover over individual days to see the acres harvested on that date.

This view is useful for identifying your strongest days and understanding how weather, labor, or equipment changes may have affected output. It can also help you look back and see where there may be room to improve efficiency during future harvest seasons.

Looking at Planting Date and Yield

The Work Overview tool also includes a yield by seeding date analysis. This section connects when a field was planted with the yield it produced, then plots the data across the calendar. Each dot represents a field, and the trend line helps show how planting date affected performance.

This can help answer questions such as:

• Did earlier planting improve yield?

• Was there a yield penalty for later planting?

• How did replanted fields appear in the data?

The tool also breaks out results by crop, including soybeans and corn, so you can compare planting timing and yield trends for each.

Additional Ways to Analyze Work

Beyond harvest and seeding timing, the Work Overview tool can also show:

• Yield by population planted.

• Yield by variety.

• Application progress across the season.

For application work, the tool combines acres covered from activities such as spraying and starter fertilizer application. That gives you a clearer picture of total daily productivity when more than one system or task is involved.

Why It Matters

This tool is designed to help you make decisions based on your own numbers, not just averages or outside recommendations. It can show where your operation was strong, where timing may have influenced results, and what changes might be worth considering next year. For many growers, that kind of visibility is valuable when planning equipment, labor, and planting strategy.

Common Uses

Farm operations can use Work Overview to:

• Compare current season performance to a five-year benchmark.

• Review daily acres covered during harvest or seeding.

• Study how planting date affected yield.

• Evaluate the impact of variety or population decisions.

• Plan equipment needs based on acres covered per day.

Getting More From Your Data

If you already use John Deere Operations Center, the Work Overview tool adds another layer of insight to the data you collect during the season. It helps turn raw work records into usable information that can support future decisions. For growers focused on improving productivity, it is a simple way to see what happened and use that information going forward.