Crop Water Sched

Use WaterSched App to manage irrigation scheduling decisions in each field on your farm.

Crop Water Sched
Use WaterSched App to manage irrigation scheduling decisions in each field on your farm.

WaterSched is a real-time irrigation decision tool requiring minimal user input.   It has been developed to for irrigators and consultants to assist in making good irrigation decisions.

It uses the FAO56 dual-crop coefficient methodology to model root zone water depletion based on real time weather data from the Australian SILO weather station network.  Reference evapotranspiration data from SILO is combined with on-farm rainfall records, crop information and soil water measurements to calculate daily soil water deficits in each field.

Users can manage a farm with multiple fields with differing soils and multiple crops with different planting dates in any one season.

It incorporates economic that generates gross margins for individual fields.  Where irrigation water is limited users can use WaterSched to make the most profitable decision on how to allocate their water.

WaterSched produces both field and farm summary reports.  The reports provide information for:

• benchmarking
• irrigation event forecasting
• yield projections
• gross margin irrigation benefit