By Gwen Uecker
Imagine a system where farm records, GIS, and acreage reporting are integrated. MIDAS provides this opportunity to streamline processes for the user and, ultimately reduce inefficiencies. With MIDAS, the future system will integrate Farm Records, GIS, and Acreage Reporting, enabling a seamless experience.
Gwen Uecker, Business Process Analyst for Acreage Reporting, identified several of the benefits of MIDAS, including:
- Farm, tract, and field information is automatically populated to the Acreage Report (allows the user to see the field/subfield reported in GIS)
- Built-in business rule calculations and validations
- Automatic calculation and deduction of skip rows and turn areas from the field acres
- Automation of the late-filing process
- Verification of signature authority within fiduciary file or farm operating plan
The new system also has many of the useful features seen with CARS but takes these processes one step further. Gwen noted that, “MIDAS has all the features the user likes about CARS and more. It has a default crop table like CARS, but it also provides suggestions while typing just like Outlook and Google. It allows for bulk copy like CARS, but also allows the user to copy from a prior years report too.”
These are only a few of the acreage reporting capabilities in the new MIDAS system. If there are any other features you would like to see incorporated into a future release of MIDAS, please contact your Change Agent Network representative and share your ideas. Your feedback is invaluable to the success of MIDAS.
