Monitor soil conditions and crop health

Send the soil and crop monitoring workbook to Priya in agronomy and to Luis, the field manager, for sign-off, in that order, with a Friday close. Before sending, verify the sensor data imports into the latest daily sheet, ensure the NDVI chart shows the last two weeks, and confirm conditional alerts flag fields 3B and 7A.

Before I hand this to field operations, make the workbook easy to act on: put critical alerts and a one-line recommendation for each field on the dashboard, make soil moisture and NDVI trends findable within two clicks, and highlight any calibration gaps that would make a farm manager hesitate to trust the numbers.

The agronomy team says irrigation was automated; the field manager says no irrigation ran. The sensor time series shows a step change at 03:00 but the logger reports no comms errors. I cannot tell whether the sensors failed, irrigation control failed, or a real leak happened. What is the likely diagnosis and the immediate next check I should ask Luis to perform before we alert the growers?

Across the last six monitoring cycles we waste hours reconciling sensor drops and filling gaps manually. Where am I losing time and risking wrong recommendations, and what one change in data validation or reporting would cut that work out of the routine?