Product Announcement: AGRIS™ Product Suite 17.1.0 is Available!

January, TBD 2017

WHAT PRODUCTS ARE INVOLVED?

AGRIS™, AgroGuide™ and oneWeigh™ systems

WHAT ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS?

Regulatory changes including 1099 and W-2 electronic file submission changes and 2017 U.S. Federal Income, Social Security, and Medicare Tax Withholding Table updates.
Support of new underlying technologies including a new server operating system and new database engines.
Improvements in AgroGuide mapping and blender integrations, Commodity, oneWeigh scale automation and System.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE NEW FEATURES AND BENEFITS?

Below are a few of the highlights found in AGRIS 17.1.0. A ReadMe document for a full list is available on MyAccount (click HERE) or on the NEW Greenstone Community (see below).

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Package	New Feature/Enhancement	Benefits
Accounts Payable (ACP)	2016 changes for 1099-DIV, INT, MISC and PATR standard forms and electronic filing	Updated 1099-DIV, INT, MISC and PATR standard forms for accurate 2016 tax year regulatory reporting.
AgroGuide (AGY)	Maps - Option to use of Google maps (early access / beta release)
Custom File Translation (CFT)	AgSync CFT* - Automatic Stream processing enabled	AgSync integration with Agronomy Integration Service* (AIS) has never been easier. This improvement automates the communication between AGRIS and the AIS to ensure work orders and blend confirmations pass quickly and easily between systems.
Commodity (GRN)	Settlements - Produce A Settlement: Home button after the print process is complete	Minimize time and effort to move on to other tasks.
oneWeigh (ONE)	Usability and interface improvements, including better binSight integration and the ability to to see what is displaying outside on a message board*, inside on the oneWeigh PC	Simplify and improve efficiency and of scale operations Reduce effort to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Patronage (PAT)	1099 reporting - calculate and populate 1099-PATR Section 199 deduction information without requiring an import (for box 3)	Reduce the chance of errors that might occur doing an export / calculation / import of the credit. Increase customer / member satisfaction level by reducing the number of patron calls concerning how the credit was calculated and for what quantities
Payroll (PAY)	2017 Federal Tax Withholding Tables	The changes are made available from the Payroll FTP site or within this service pack release
System (SYS)	Support of the latest database engines from both Actian and Microsoft	Increase flexibility to run the system on the latest Actian database engine. Increase flexibility to run AGRIS and AgroGuide on the latest Microsoft database engine. Click HERE for information about the features and benefits of the Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database engine.
System (SYS)	Support the Microsoft Windows Server 2016 operating system	Increase your options for deploying and running the system. Click HERE for a matrix of supported operating systems and database engines.

* = Available for an additional fee. Contact your Account Manager at 800-393-0075 or info@culturatech.com.

HOW CAN YOU GET IT?

You can obtain AGRIS 17.1.0 using either of the two methods below.

MyAccount

Visit https://myaccount.agris.com/SP to sign in to MyAccount and it will direct you to the AGRIS 17.1.0 Service Pack page. If you are a member of the new Greenstone Community, click HERE.
Under the 17.1.0 section, click Documentation and open the "ReadMe" document for information about the Service Pack. Additional documentation (System Requirements, Installation and Easy Upgrade instructions) is also available.
Click the "Download" link to download and install the Service Pack.
If your business is using the AgroGuide Precision Analysis feature, please contact your Account Manager (or call 800-393-0075 or email info@culturatech.com) to discuss the Agronomy Integration Service.

NEW Greenstone Community

The new Greenstone Community will help you:

Manage support cases logged with Greenstone
Create new cases with the ability to indicate severity
Search knowledge base articles quickly
Interact with other Greenstone customers on topics important to you and your business
Find the latest news on the products you use (including our latest software releases)
If you are not yet a member of the NEW Greenstone Community, click http://go.culturatech.com/communities to register. Note: It may take up to 8 business hours for your request to process.
Once you are registered, click HERE or in the Search field type "17.1.0" and select "AGRIS 17.1.0 is Available".
There you will see the prerequisites, highlights, technical information, supporting software, download and software updates pertaining to this release.

NEED MORE HELP?

For assistance or additional information on installing the update, contact the Customer Experience team at mysupport@culturatech.com or 800-366-2474.

WANT MORE NEWS YOU CAN USE?

The ability to run the AGRIS system on the Microsoft SQL Server database is a reality! Interested in migrating to the Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) database engine in a phased manner? Click HERE to learn more.
Support of the AGRIS system on the PSQL v11 database engine ended July 1, 2016. Support of the AGRIS Product Suite running on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and PSQL v10 ended on July 14, 2015. Please contact your Account Manager (or call 800-393-0075 or email info@culturatech.com) to discuss your database upgrade options.
Maintenance and support for AGRIS V9.6.0 ended December 31, 2016.
The next AGRIS release is scheduled for mid-April, 2017.

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