The brand new Turf Advisor app from Syngenta has been designed to provide greenkeepers, turf managers and agronomists instantaneous entry to a wealth of key data and recommendation to assist make higher selections for day-to-day actions and planning.
Absolutely customisable for any location and scenario, the revolutionary Turf Advisor app gives important climate knowledge and turf administration fashions, offered in a transparent dashboard that may be tailor-made and tailored by way of the season to give attention to imminent points and challenges confronted.
UK & Eire turf managers would be the first to have entry to the immense international Syngenta funding in supporting turf managers and agronomists to make more practical sustainable turf administration selections.
The displayed knowledge units in Turf Advisor have been particularly chosen as elements that affect turf well being and administration, together with rainfall, leaf wetness, humidity, soil temperatures, Day size and evapotranspiration, for instance.
Uniquely, it shows each the historic climate knowledge for current days that may have impacted on present turf well being and high quality, together with the forecast data for the approaching days serving to turf managers perceive the place they sit in a climate sample, serving to them to make administration selections.
Moreover, the app makes lots of the famend Syngenta turf illness forecasting fashions extra accessible and simpler to make use of – enabling turf mangers to immediately assess dangers, set danger thresholds tailor-made to their web site and plan their actions. GreenCast illness fashions out there embrace microdochium patch, anthracnose, gray leaf spot and a brand new for Syngenta UK & Eire particular Smith-Kerns mannequin for Greenback spot stress forecasting.
Registered customers can choose and alter which of the information units they’ve exhibiting on their personalised dashboard, and the order they show. That may allow their dashboard to be tailor-made by way of the 12 months – to give attention to microdochium patch elements coming into autumn excessive danger durations, for instance, then tailored to raised deal with managing grass progress charges within the spring.
Turf Advisor incorporates the Rising Diploma Day calculator that has confirmed probably the most favoured digital help device on the Syngenta Turf web site, together with an thrilling new Development Potential mannequin. The 2 can be utilized in conjunction to extra precisely predict progress patterns and product software timings. Importantly, customers can now see their cumulative GDD tally in actual time, to plan actions and software timings on the transfer.
Additionally constructed into the app is a transparent spray window forecast, which might show essential in making certain functions are made on the most acceptable timing and within the optimum situations to enhance efficacy and accuracy.
Syngenta EAME Technical supervisor Glenn Kirby has been instrumental in growing the Turf Advisor app. As a former course supervisor, his sensible expertise has ensured the app delivers the knowledge he would use in making turf administration selections each day.
“The app has been completely designed from the perspective of a sensible greenkeeper or turf supervisor,” stated Kirby. “Everyone knows that subjectively we’re utilizing knowledge across the climate and our personal expertise of the course to make selections.
“With Turf Advisor we now have goal knowledge and information that may assist help stronger sensible turf administration selections. It on no account replaces the turf supervisor’s expertise, however helps to help and validate their decsions.”
It has taken lots of the features of the pioneering and globally famend GreenCast web site and added a complete raft of recent parts chosen to help turf administration – and made it readily accessible and straightforward to make use of in an app.
“Microdochium assaults are influenced by a mess of things, for instance,” added Kirby. “The GreenCast microdochium mannequin will pinpoint when there may be the best danger of outbreaks in accordance with rain and temperatures, however for the best proactive methods it needs to be used at the side of leaf wetness, humidity, GDD and Development Potential to evaluate the way it will influence on the turf and speedy implications. All these elements may be immediately seen on the dashboard within the Turf Advisor app.”
Customers can set two profiles throughout the app enabling them to actually customise for his or her wants. They’ll comply with a sequence of YouTube movies with recommendations of learn how to arrange their dashboard and helpful elements to give attention to for potential challenges over the approaching months. Additional seasonal recommendation might be offered by way of the GreenCast Advisory Weblog and On the horizon podcast.
Syngenta trials of recent fungicides and biocontrols will now embrace a Turf Advisor led programme, in order that the launch of recent merchandise may be supported by the digital instruments and suggestions.
The Turf Advisor app is now out there to obtain free for Apple and android units, from the app Retailer or Google Play, with direct hyperlinks from the Syngenta web site: www.syngentaturf.co.uk/turf-advisor-app
