Details of changes made to API calculations
Timestamp
Details of Change
13 Jul 2026
v1.0.5
• Removal of the Applied field in the Recommendations endpoint output.
• Several crop types and crop info 1 names have been updated for consistency between England & Wales and Scotland, these should be re-downloaded from the appropriate endpoints if needed.
• New summer & winter rainfall endpoints added.
• New required input in the Recommendations endpoint - excessWinterRainfallManuallyEntered, note: this is only used by fields in Scotland.
• New soil methodology endpoint: ~/api/soil/nutrientIndexes/{methodologyId}.
• Additional documentation added to the web app.
• Custom headers added to responses from calls to the api, to provide extra information. Details on these can be found in the additional documentation.
• When a pH value is not provided in the Recommendations request, or is too old, a lime recommendation is no longer returned.
• One Grass and One Soil endpoint have been marked as deprecated and replaced by new endpoints - these are highlighted in the endpoint documentation in the web app.
• Supporting Grassland endpoints are now hidden from documentation. They can still be called for now, but have been marked as deprecated.
• Worked examples in the web app have been updated to reflect above changes where appropriate.
• Removal of the Applied field in the Recommendations endpoint output.
• Several crop types and crop info 1 names have been updated for consistency between England & Wales and Scotland, these should be re-downloaded from the appropriate endpoints if needed.
• New summer & winter rainfall endpoints added.
• New required input in the Recommendations endpoint - excessWinterRainfallManuallyEntered, note: this is only used by fields in Scotland.
• New soil methodology endpoint: ~/api/soil/nutrientIndexes/{methodologyId}.
• Additional documentation added to the web app.
• Custom headers added to responses from calls to the api, to provide extra information. Details on these can be found in the additional documentation.
• When a pH value is not provided in the Recommendations request, or is too old, a lime recommendation is no longer returned.
• One Grass and One Soil endpoint have been marked as deprecated and replaced by new endpoints - these are highlighted in the endpoint documentation in the web app.
• Supporting Grassland endpoints are now hidden from documentation. They can still be called for now, but have been marked as deprecated.
• Worked examples in the web app have been updated to reflect above changes where appropriate.