Soil testing labs near my farms
Soil testing labs near each farm.
What it does
Before planting: soil testing services and laboratories within 50 km of each farm in your table, the best-rated first, in a sheet for the agronomist.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, take your table, find soil testing services and laboratories nearby, remove duplicates, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Fertiliser works best when the soil is tested first. Labs nearby make it easy.
Who it is for
Agriculture & food supply. Growers, agri suppliers and food supply teams watching fields and weather and finding buyers and dealers. Every use case for agriculture & food supply
Best use cases
- A farm group
- An agronomy service
- A fertiliser company’s field team
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Our farmsYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Soil labs nearbyxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Each lab onceLogic · Remove duplicatesKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.
- Update the labs sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2): Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
- How to get rain alerts for your sites: A message when rain is forecast where it matters.
- How to get a weekly satellite picture of your sites: See construction or land change without visiting.
More for Agriculture & food supply
- Where growers need a cold store: Grower areas with the fewest cold stores, scored for a packhouse, approved.
- Land offers, checked from space and the ground: Every plot offered to you checked from space and the ground, scored and approved.
- Buyers for my produce near my farms: Buyers for your produce near your farms, scored and sent from your own Gmail.
- Agri input dealers for my field officers: Agri input dealers sorted by what they sell, routed to the nearest field officer.
- Irrigation plan for my fields, every morning: An irrigation plan for each field from the week's heat and rain.
- Weekly field watch from space: The latest clear satellite picture of each field, with the week's weather and a note.