Cropmate is a website to help you analyse climate and weather information for your location. It is designed to provide timely and accurate information to help you make informed planning and management decisions during the crop cycle.
To begin, select your state and your location in the box on the right.
CropMate is divided into 5 sections which follow the crop cycle. Each section uses climate and weather information and seasonal forecasts to help make decisions.
Select your location
Download the free CropMate VarietyChooser App for your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad today
CropMate VarietyChooser is a decision tool for farmers, to help choose varieties of barley, canola, chickpea, oats, triticale and wheat. Choose your region, desired disease resistance levels, see comparative yield trials to narrow down your choices and see details of each variety.
Brought to you by the NSW Department of Primary Industries.
Preseason planning
Analysis of your average temperature, rainfall and evaporation
Seasonal forecasts and the influence of climate
Decision support tools to help you estimate your soil-water and nitrogen, frost and heat risk and decide which crop to grow (CropChooser)
Sowing
Information on recent rainfall and temperature
Temperature analysis
Forecast and synoptic charts
Decision tools to help you decide which variety to plant (VarietyChooser) and when a wheat variety will flower (SowMan)
Spraying
Current rain, wind, tempeature and Delta-T conditions
Forecast and synoptic charts
Tracking the season
Observations for the month
Comparison of accumulated rainfall
A decision tool for nitrogen topdressing
A calculator to compare the outcome when salvaging crops for hay, silage or grazing
Harvest
Observations for the month
Information on recent rainfall
Forecast and synoptic charts
Post-harvest review tool
Acknowledgements
CropMate has been developed by NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) using data provided by the Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence and the Bureau of Meteorology.
Funding for this project has been provided by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC).
This website has been developed by the CropMate project team:
Caihua(Wei) Chen, Graeme McIntosh, Jan Edwards, De Li Liu, DPI NSW and David Herridge, UNE Primary Industries Innovation Centre (PIIC).
With assistance from Chris Cole, Jianhua Mo, Felicity Gamble, Josh Gordon, Peter Hayman and Michael Cashen.
Photos: sowing - Barry Haskins, DPI NSW Hilston; all other photos - Jan Edwards DPI NSW Cowra.
Technical requirements
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Website system requirements enabled Java Scripts
This website is under development.
It has been tested on Firefox, Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0
Technical assistance and feedback
Graeme McIntosh, District Agronomist is available to assist users and can be contacted by:
phone: 03 50198404
