The AGRIS 18.1.0 release has added:

...

Purpose and Summary

Need to :

• Improve ability to make more changes to maps in less time?
• Reduce time spent waiting for the "Refreshing AgroGuide Maps" process to complete?

AgroGuide land maintenance and mapping has been enhanced to improve client tree and map refresh time.  This improvement is called "Targeted Refresh". 

...

AgroGuide provides the option to turn off Targeted Refresh either at the dataset or user preference levels.

...