Collecting data to generate an agricultural prescription

A drive unit comprises:

• a first interface operable to establish a first communication path with farm equipment;
• a second interface operable to establish a second communication path with a portable computing device;
• memory;
• a processing module operably coupled to the first interface, the second interface, and the memory, wherein the processing module is operable to receive, via the first interface, data from the farm equipment to produce agricultural data;
• determine a filtering constraint based on one or more parameters selected from a plurality of lists of agricultural parameters;
• filter the agricultural data based on the filtering constraint to produce filtered agricultural data;
• receive, via the second interface, a previous agriculture prescription;
• determine, based on the filtered agricultural data and the previous agriculture prescription, a modified agricultural prescription;
• extract, from the modified agricultural prescription, control information and to output the control information via the first interface to an actuator set of the farm equipment, resulting in performing an action using the farm equipment in accordance with the modified agricultural prescription.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing operational instructions which, when executed by one or more processing modules of a drive unit of farm equipment, causes the one or more processing modules to:

• receive, via a first interface of the drive unit, data from the farm equipment to produce agricultural data;
• determine a filtering constraint based on one or more parameters selected from a plurality of lists of agricultural parameters;
• filter the agricultural data based on the filtering constraint to produce filtered agricultural data;
• receive, via the second interface, a previous agriculture prescription;
• determine, based on the filtered agricultural data and the previous agriculture prescription, a modified agricultural prescription;
• extract, from the modified agricultural prescription, control information and to output the control information via the first interface to an actuator set of the farm equipment, resulting in performing an action using the farm equipment in accordance with the modified agricultural prescription.