Ant Surrage works as a Technical Development Specialist for uni . In this article he explains how collecting and visualise harvest story and harvest walk data can be helpful with the optimization of an IPM programme .
Integrated cuss direction ( IPM ) is now becoming a anchor of crop protection . However , although our pest management practice are integrated seldom are our datasets . I regularly see growers have several dissimilar spreadsheets collecting and store prosody . To truly unlock the potential of that data it need to be centralise on a weapons platform and visualize in a way that creates new actionable insights to optimize IPM public presentation .
There is with child time value to collecting many dissimilar data sets but the two most important from my experience with agriculturist has been microclimate crop floor data point and detailed harvest walk information .
The harvest horizontal surface information gives us a more valid measured to base decisions on . The environment within the canopy or on the bottom of the leaf can be profoundly dissimilar from the wall farm surroundings . This is also measuring and monitoring the area where pest and disease will develop . This intern means that any decision musical accompaniment dashboards created will be more representative of the crop and lead to better determination devising .
second , crop walk data point is hugely important as it afford a historical perspective that admit for further refinement and specification of an IPM program . It is useful for the team crop walking to have an agreed communications protocol and a mutual understanding of how to score pest and disease pressure . We often see growers score on a scale of 0 – 5 , where 0 is no mien and 5 is a severe infection . Ensuring that everyone is scoring a 3 is crucial to make certain data set are reliable .
Using 30MHz ’s data chopine and the manual data point stimulant function allows us to overlie , in thingmajig , pest and disease pressure against cardinal environmental metrics such as temperature and humidness . work with raiser grouping over the last two years we have been collecting the datum and look for patterns in conditions that may explicate the pest and disease growth . Using these widgets and Growing Degree Hours / Growing Degree Days functions we have been able to plunk for growers in improving the timing of their program of biocontrol and biopesticides .
Understanding and visualising high - danger conditions for disease ontogeny has meant that growers have been able to adjust their cultural practices such as spacing , screening and venting . This reduces the risk of disease and can campaign infection back , which can save on applications of controls measuring stick , save up money but perhaps as importantly in the current blessing clime uphold the number of applications for cardinal chemical substance controls .
Ant Surrage shows his dashboard . ( get across forherethe enlarged image )
Data can be visualised via the widgets in the platform to advocate in real - time what IPM control touchstone will knead most effectively . The best example of this is biopesticides . Biopesticides tend to be base on live organism and as such have adapted to live certain environmental condition . Environmental information can be presented in a path that lets a raiser do it if the temperatures and/or humidness are correct for an efficacious applications programme . Taking this into account statement growers and consultant likewise can have confidence that the environmental conditions will not be a limiting agent in the efficacy of that IPM remark .
To summarise , collecting , centralising and visualising harvest level environmental and craw paseo information can set aside for the optimisation of an IPM programme at every level from cultural and hygiene measures to the diligence of biopesticides .
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