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| Terranimo | Terranimo® is a Terramechanical model for the simulation of stress under agricultural machinery and for decisions on sustainable agricultural field traffic. A test version of Terranimo® was released in March 2012. | - |
| C-tool | Enhance SOM model development by aiding the construction, revision and testing of soil carbon turnover models | - |
| DLBR | Comprehensive database stored on cropping history, input, soil data etc. for individual farmers | Complete farm plan |
| DLBR Mark Online | | Takes soil types into account; new and more advance/accurate; complete farm plan |
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| Farmscoper | Used to assess diffuse agricultural pollutant loads on a farm and quantify the impacts of farm mitigation methods on these pollutants. It also determines potential additional consequences of mitigation method implementation for biodiversity, water use and energy use. | user friendly; gives the farmers financial benefits of employing measures and quantifies the saving for the farmer; includes ELS data to provide up-to-date picture |
| RB209 | Defra’s fertilizer guide (guidance and recommendation tables) | Paper-based |
| MANNER | A software tool which predicts the plant availability of manure nitrogen (N) following application to land. | |
| Sundial | “SimUlation of Nitrogen Dynamics In Arable Land”- dynamic computer model of nitrogen turnover in the crop/soil system | |
| Well-N | Model for sustainable use of nitrogen fertiliser | |
| CropKare | Fertiliser recommendation crop calculator | |
| CALM | “Carbon Accounting for Land Managers” - business activity-based calculator showing the balance between annual emissions of the key Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)and carbon sequestration associated with the activities of land-based businesses. | Simple, internet based, provides choice at the end. Companies developing it have done customer insight, designing systems for people in mind. |
| Planet | Nutrient budget control; about climate change, profitability and diffuse pollution | |
| Farming for a better climate | About climate change, but addresses farm efficiencies, slurry use and targeting with fertilizers to maximize return per unit | Farmer focused |
| LADSS | “Land Allocation Decision Support System” - Collective term for a farm-scale integrated modelling framework that is being developed to simulate whole-farm systems | Produce booklets |
| Agricultural benefits spreadsheet calculator | DST to help staff decide whether waste can be applied to land, without causing harm - without excessive loading of metals to soil. It uses RB209 and Sludge Use in Agriculture (Guide) thresholds for toxic elements, so is concerned with nutrients, lime and contamination risk. The 2 documents are combined into a simple spreadsheet as a tool for staff. | |
| Think Soils | Manual to help staff identify soil and management options to reduce damage; primarily for EA staff and external advisors, not farmers | Every copy gets distributed with a feedback form; printed on waterproof paper; pictoral; focused on delivering outcomes |
| Sediment Matters | Aims to help non-specialists understand sediment sources, pathways and stores so that they can collect the evidence necessary to support procedures such as land drainage consents and anti-pollution works notices and identify sustainable sediment management solutions for their catchment. | Hard copy; includes a series of risk assessment stages |
| Allowance tool | Map-based software tool that looks at the capacity of land to accept materials such as slurry or agric wastes, at constraints like NVZs. it’s a decision support tool, for example if a farmers was planning to put in an AD they would use this tool to help with positioning and planning. | Available externally, there are 2 levels, public facing and specialist user group which uses the data in more detail |
| Gatekeeper | Can help manage field records, crop records and stock records. The software can be used to plan for future seasons; monitor margins; review and compare input costs; and look at trends over a number of years. | Good interface; uses PLANET in the background |
| Tried and Tested | A booklet with principles of nutrient management and a spreadsheet at the end; the same as PLANET but paper based | Paper-based |
| Knowledgescotland | Online resource for policymakers and Government stakeholders that is focused in the food, health, environment and rural sectors. | |
| Public Good Tool | Excel-based tool developed by the Organic Research Centre to assess the public goods provided on a farm. Only used by advisers (not for public use). | Follows a holistic approach |
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| Soil Catalogue | based on a database that collects about 30 years of soil information of both geological (geological surveys) and agronomic (soil features and subsoil fauna) nature | Farm scale; built with the idea to provide the users with an interactive DST, which based on a sound database allows to personalize all provided information |
| FERTIRRIGERE | provides information on irrigation and fertilization | Information provided to the farmers through sms |
| MiPAAF | The main concerns regard: carbon soil management; nitrogen leaching; erosion control; pest management in crops; the farm aspects related to the application of one or more cross-compliance measures. | |
| IRRI | define the fertilization plan in particular situations (e.g. Nitrate vulnerable Zones) | is free, online; but is very complex and sometime hardly usable |