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PropelMapper vs FarmQA for scouting
PropelMapper starts from a spoken field visit and drafts the client report from it, while FarmQA is built around scouting forms, recommendations and prescriptions for agronomy businesses.
- FarmQA
- Scouting forms, recommendations and a grower app
- With PropelMapper
- A spoken visit that becomes a reviewed report
Who it fits
What FarmQA and PropelMapper are for
QA Advisor is FarmQA’s platform for agronomists and ag retailers: scouting, imagery, soil sampling, recommendations and records. Growers get a separate QA Farmer app where reports arrive and you can see when they were viewed (FarmQA, checked October 2026).
PropelMapper is for advisors whose visit ends in a written report: agronomists, farm managers, and vets and nutritionists. You talk through the visit at the field, take photos and readings, and we draft the report from those captures for you to check and sign.
Side by side
Feature comparison
FarmQA’s scouting, mapping and pricing pages support the rows below. Use the links to read the vendor’s description of each job.
| Part of the job | FarmQA | With PropelMapper |
|---|---|---|
| Voice capture | Voice recording and transcription: ? (FarmQA, checked October 2026). | Voice recordings with transcripts after upload and processing. Voice capture. |
| Photo capture | Photos are geo-tagged and sit with notes, map annotations and custom scouting forms (FarmQA, checked October 2026). | Photos and notes kept with the visit and its mapped captures. Field app. |
| Offline | Data entry works fully offline. Data and scouting templates are cached on the device and sync when you are back online (FarmQA, checked October 2026). | Capture, GPS and boundaries work offline. Transcription, drafting and sending need a connection. Offline details. |
| Maps and field boundaries | Draw boundaries in the browser, drive them with the phone app, upload shapefiles, or sync from John Deere Operations Center and CNH (FarmQA, checked October 2026). | Field polygons and mapped captures. Draw, walk or import boundaries. Maps, imports. |
| Client-ready reports | Scouting observations become a PDF report with field maps, photos, conditions and recommendations, sent by text, email or the QA Farmer app (FarmQA, checked October 2026). | Draft reports from visit captures; review, sign and export PDF or Word. Reports. |
| Tasks | A Tasks add-on schedules, assigns and tracks follow-up work, at $150 per user per year (FarmQA pricing, checked October 2026). | Follow-ups said in a recording are offered as tasks to confirm, with an assignee and a due date. Tasks. |
| Team review | Managers see seasonal scouts’ reports in one place and approve them before they reach growers. Reports from several scouts can be merged into one (FarmQA, checked October 2026). | Team leads can check and sign any draft before it goes out, or leave it to the advisor. Insights shows visits, coverage and report turnaround across the team. Insights. |
| Price model | Billed annually by role, with a 14-day trial (FarmQA pricing, checked October 2026). Every account needs an Administrator/Agronomist seat at $800 per user per year (FarmQA pricing, checked October 2026). Technician seats are $200 and Operator seats $100 per user per year, with add-ons extra (FarmQA pricing, checked October 2026). | Individual: $99/month or $900/year. Team: $400/month for five users. Education and Enterprise by quote. Plan details. |
Where FarmQA is ahead
Where FarmQA does more
If your work is mostly what follows a scouting pass, FarmQA covers ground we do not.
- Writing recommendations. FarmQA links a recommendation to the scouting report behind it and sends a PDF with products, rates, mixing order and totals based on field acreage (FarmQA, checked October 2026). PropelMapper has no rate or product-total calculator.
- Prescriptions and zones. FarmQA sells basic and formula-based variable rate prescription tiers (FarmQA pricing, checked October 2026). PropelMapper does not write prescriptions.
- Boundaries from equipment. FarmQA syncs field information from John Deere Operations Center and CNH (FarmQA, checked October 2026). PropelMapper imports boundary files but has no equipment connection.
- Running a scouting crew. Merging several scouts’ reports into one and approving them before they go out is described on FarmQA’s scouting page (FarmQA, checked October 2026).
Who should pick which
Choosing FarmQA or PropelMapper
You run an agronomy business or retail location with scouts on standard forms, you write recommendations and prescriptions, and you want growers to open reports in their own app.
Your visit is a conversation as much as a count, and the deliverable is a narrative report or letter to a client or landowner. You would rather talk through the field than fill in a form, then check a draft before you sign it.
Not sure? Take a field you know well. Record the visit in each app the same week and compare the report your client would get, the time it took you, and how easily a colleague can find the source of each number. Our voice capture and reports pages show our side in detail.
Questions
FarmQA questions
Does FarmQA work without a signal?
Yes. FarmQA says data entry works fully offline, with data and scouting templates cached on the device and syncing automatically when you reconnect (FarmQA, checked October 2026).
What does FarmQA cost?
FarmQA prices by role and bills annually. Its pricing page lists a required Administrator/Agronomist seat at $800 per user per year, Technician seats at $200 and Operator seats at $100, with Tasks, imagery, prescriptions and other add-ons extra (FarmQA pricing, checked October 2026).
Can I record voice notes in FarmQA?
We could not confirm it. The FarmQA pages we checked describe notes, photos, map annotations and forms, and do not mention voice recording. Ask FarmQA to show you before you decide.
Can I bring FarmQA field boundaries into PropelMapper?
PropelMapper imports places from CSV, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON and zipped shapefiles up to 20 MB. If you can export your boundaries from FarmQA in one of those formats, they will come in. We have not checked FarmQA’s export options.
A question mark (?) means “not verified”: the cited vendor pages do not establish that capability. It does not mean the product lacks it. Our comparison uses published sources; ask the vendor for a hands-on demonstration.
Vendor pages re-checked on October 29, 2026. Reviewed for publication by Jamison Cote. Vendors change their products; if something here is out of date, write to us and we will correct it.
End of the walk
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Use a field you scouted this season. Talk through it, add photos, and compare our report with the PDF your growers get today.