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SnapCard provides growers with access to a valuable<br />

decision support tool that can be used in three<br />

important ways:<br />

<br />

Predicting spray coverage based on current<br />

conditions; time of day, tractor speed, spray<br />

nozzles, spray volume, boom height,<br />

adjuvants, and weather conditions<br />

<br />

Comparing actual spray coverage with water<br />

sensitive spray cards, to the predicted spray<br />

coverage<br />

<br />

Record keeping of treatment details and<br />

per<strong>for</strong>mance on a secure Department of<br />

Agriculture and Food server to comply with<br />

Health (Pesticides) Regulation 77 which<br />

requires treatment details to be recorded<br />

within two business days and held <strong>for</strong> three<br />

years<br />

New in this edition<br />

SoilMapp <strong>for</strong><br />

SoilMapp is designed to make soil in<strong>for</strong>mation more<br />

Free 49.1Mb Internet<br />

iOS (iPad<br />

Not<br />

iPad<br />

accessible to help Australian farmers, consultants,<br />

required<br />

only)<br />

available<br />

planners, natural resource managers, researchers and<br />

download<br />

<strong>for</strong><br />

people interested in soil.<br />

here<br />

Android<br />

SoilMapp has been developed by CSIRO, Australia’s<br />

national research agency, to allow direct access to the<br />

Australian Soil Resource In<strong>for</strong>mation System (ASRIS)<br />

and APSoil, the database behind the agricultural<br />

computer model: Agricultural Production Systems<br />

sIMulator (APSIM).<br />

New in this edition<br />

© Ag Excellence Alliance Inc November 2014<br />

Produced by Ag Excellence Alliance Inc, with funding from Natural Resources SA Murray-Darling Basin Page 20

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