3.2 Generate more informed, accurate and timely input for decision-making (e.g. sensor/monitoring technology or decision support models)
Impact
Growers are able to optimise input costs and profitability through data-informed decision-making.
Summary
Growers know what data to collect, how to collect it and how to use it to inform decision-making on farm.
Growers have access to the tools and knowledge required to make more data-informed decisions.
Growers can accurately quantify the effects of crop input decisions on their whole-of-farm business profitability.
SCOPE
INVESTMENT OUTCOMES
Capture the data that matters
Tools, technologies and methods are developed to identify and cost-effectively capture the data that matters.
3.2.1
Growers have the knowledge and skills required to quantify the value proposition of collecting new and existing data to aid with decision-making.
3.2.2
Growers have access to the tools and technologies required to collect key data accurately and cost-effectively.
Understanding of what the data means
Data is used to understand current constraints to production and forecast likely outcomes of associated crop input decisions.
3.2.3
Growers and industry have access to tools enabling automated processing of raw data into analysis-ready formats to improve the timeliness and accuracy of crop input decision-making.
3.2.4
Growers have the knowledge and tools to extract greater value from existing on-farm data sources in forecasting the likely production outcomes of crop input decisions.
3.2.5
Growers have access to tools enabling the timely detection, mapping and forecasting of different production constraints on farm.
Decision-making informed by the data
Knowledge and tools are developed to enable growers to identify the optimal decisions throughout and across cropping cycles.
3.2.6
Growers have access to the prediction tools required to quantify the seasonal and farming system impacts of strategic agronomic decisions.
3.2.7
Growers have access to the tools and knowledge required to more accurately predict the return on investment and optimise the whole-of-farm business implications from key seasonal crop input decisions.
