Features
- Works on both net and spot form net blotch.
- Multiple options allow the user to enter parameters that best reflect their circumstances.
- Determines the likely disease severity, yield loss and economic return from the parameters entered.
- Considers complex interactions that affect the disease.
- Can compare different management strategies.
- The user can email a paddock report to another person, such as a grower or farm consultant.
- Alternate views of predicted results to suit the user’s preference.
- Available for iphones/ipads, android phones and tablets.
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About the app
NetBlotchBM is a decision support tool that assists growers and consultants in determining the best management strategy to reduce net blotch disease in barley and increase profits.
NetBlotchBM accounts for the major factors that influence net blotch severity.
The user can specify factors relating to paddock selection, variety, seasonal conditions, prices, and management options so the output relates to their cropping circumstance. The user can explore their options for disease control and understand the relative importance of each factor.
NetBlotchBM helps you to manage both net and spot form net blotch disease in barley crops in Australia. NetBlotchBM can be tuned to account for some of the major factors that relate to risk of yield loss due to net blotch disease in your paddocks.
It allows you to compare the likely profitability of different disease management strategies, including paddock selection, variety choice, in-furrow fungicide and foliar fungicide.
NetBlotchBM takes account of cost, yield benefits, grain price and seasonal conditions to give you the best case, worst case, and most likely estimates of financial return.
The app does not account for all the factors that can affect net blotch disease, and information provided by this tool is not tailored to the circumstances of any farm.
Acknowledgements
NetBlotchBM is part of a suite of disease management tools developed and coded by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) through the National Disease Modelling projects funded by the GRDC. This tool was developed and tested in collaboration with Agriculture Victoria and Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.
NetBlotchBM was developed to support the Australian barley industry.