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The Crop Weather Analyzer: A Program to Evaluate Real-Time and Historical Implications of Temperature and Rainfall on Crop Development

T.J. Gerik, E.M. Steglich, L.L. Francis, J.H. Greiner, R. Srinivasan, W.L. Harman, and J.W. Stuth

ABSTRACT

Crop Weather Analyzer is a software program that makes it possible for the producer to assess the rate of crop development and the growing season rainfall in order to make informed crop management decisions. The software enables the crop consultant and/or manager to download real-time daily weather from the web or from the user’s weather station(s), to calculate and compare cumulative growing-degree units for most major crops and cumulative precipitation for the current year-to-date with any two previous years and the long-term historical average through a graphic interface. The user may edit the daily data to reflect his/her site-specific observations and create his/her own weather files for future use with Crop Weather Analyzer and CroPMan. Crop growth stages can be overlayed on graphs to reference and/or anticipate the timing of key phenological growth stages. A graphic interface displays the results, which can be saved as windows metafiles (*.wmf) or ASCII text (*.txt) and can be directly incorporated into reports, emailed to clients, or imported into other software/programs. The software operates under Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, and XP operating systems.





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