CropManage is an online decision support tool for assisting growers and farm managers in determining water and nitrogen fertilizer applications on a field-by-field basis. The software automates the calculation of crop water needs using weather data and crop development models. It also estimates fertilizer N requirements by combining infield measurements with models of crop N uptake and […]
Articles Tagged: nitrogen fertilizer recommendation
Irrigation Method Impacts on CropManage Recommendations
The method of irrigating (drip, flood, sprinkler, micro-sprinkler, etc) affects irrigation and nitrogen fertilizer recommendations in several ways. First, the distribution uniformity of the irrigation method will affect the volume of water recommended. A higher application uniformity will reduce the volume of water recommended. Drip usually has a higher distribution uniformity than sprinklers. If 100% […]