How To: Adding crop properties to a soil
It is important to remember that the soil must be parameterised for the crops
that you're going to sow. If your simulation is going to sow wheat, then the
soil must have LL, KL and XF values for wheat.
If the soil you wish to use does not have these values for the crop you desire, then you can add them.
Start by clicking on the soil component in your simulation tree, make sure the Water node is expanded
Under the Water node, copy an existing crop back onto the Water node.
Then Rename the newly created crop to whatever crop you want to add eg. Canola (nb. It must match the name of the crop component that you are going to drag onto the simulation tree exactly).
In the User Interface on the right hand side you should now see that your new crop has been added with default values filled in for LL, PAWC, KL and XF. (these values are the same as whatever crop you copied)
(You may have to use the horizontal scroll bar along the bottom of the table to view your crop.
The table is editable so you may change any of the values in the table. SO BE CAREFUL. (nb. PAWC is not editable becaue is is calculated from DUL - LL)
Once you have changed the values for LL, PAWC, KL and XF to what you want, you are done. You can now continue building the rest of your
simulation or do a run.
Note, you can copy and paste these values from other crops by selecting all the cells you want to copy with the mouse,
and then pressing "Ctrl + C" and then clicking on the top cell of the LL column for the new crop you have added, then pressing "Ctrl + V".
You can find out more about LL, PAWC, KL and XF in the Science Documentation for SoilWat or SWIM2.