Modelling forage yield and water productivity of continuous crop sequences in the Argentinian Pampas

The global area and farming systems to which APSIM can be applied with confidence to have recently expanded with a research article recently published in the European Journal of Agronomy. A validation analysis showed that APSIM was able to accurately simulate the forage yield and water productivity of a range of forage crops and also continuous forage crop rotations across the Argentinian Pampas. Forage crops that the model was tested for includes maize, soybean, wheat, oats, annual ryegrass and barley. Water productivity was simulated with a greater accuracy when considering the whole crop rotation rather than individual crops. Crop forage yield simulated with greater accuracy for crops harvest without regrown compared to crops harvested frequently and allowed to regrowth.

For further details see the new paper titled ‘Modelling forage yield and water productivity of continuous crop sequences in the Argentinian Pampas’ published in European Journal of Agronomy at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2017.10.004.