Nitrogen Management
N fertiliser is the largest variable input for most grain producers and responses are highly variable.
Informed decision making on N input strategies that optimise long-term rewards vs risk considering:
- Recovery & recycling of N
- Seasonal variability & uncertainty
- Crop and fertiliser price situation & uncertainty
- Regional/Site/Soil context
- Paddock & soil variability
Agronomic Decisions
Annual choices on what crop to grow, when to sow it and how to manage it to maximise returns.
Informing crop management decisions to balance risk and reward related to:
- Establishment risk during early sowing
- Balancing frost & heat impacts on yield potential
- Crop choices & crop sequences
- Fungicide application
- Phosphorus fertiliser inputs
Enterprise Financial Decisions
Large and infrequent purchases of key farm assets are considered difficult by many growers
Informing the rewards and risks of farm infrastructure and land purchasing
- Land acquisition and expansion
- Machinery and technology purchases
- Grain storage & marketing
Natural Resource Capital Management
Balancing short-term profit while maintaining long-term soil function and productivity into the future.
Better informed consideration of long-term management of a farm’s natural capital (its soil)
- Amelioration of soil constraints
- Soil carbon management practices
- Long-term soil fertility remediation (deep P & K)