Crop Protocol Analysis: Anee Writes Your Season by Growth Stage
The Crop Protocol Analysis in anee.io writes the season for one field. Pick the crop and variety and describe the field. Anee then works out which fertilizer to use, how many bags and at which growth stage. She adds the sprays to keep ready, a water plan and the threats to watch.
What the crop protocol analysis asks
Most questions are optional. Each answer changes which fertilizer to use and when, so give what you know and skip the rest.
- Where the field is, the crop and the variety
- The month you will plant and how: for rice, transplanted, wet direct seeded or dry direct seeded
- Your goal, from highest yield to lower cost, and a target yield in cavans or tons per hectare if you have one
- Field size, soil type, water source and the troubles you have seen
- Soil condition, like acid, alkaline, sodic, saline or acid sulfate, and phosphorus or potassium levels if you know them
- The last crop and its straw, what the field got last season, and the fertilizers sold near you
Anee reads up before she writes
Like Variety Ranking, this tool searches the web first. Anee looks up your variety's published traits and the official nutrient and pest advice for your crop and region. She also reads the seasonal outlook, El Niño or La Niña, and the week's weather at your field.
If she cannot find your variety online, the report says so and names the one she assumed.
Fertilizer by growth stage, not by calendar
Every step follows a growth stage you can see, with its day count beside it, like DAT 35 to 49. The plants are the clock, and the days are only a guide. Each stage gives the fertilizer and its purpose, what to look for and what to do if you see it.
Rates come per hectare in 50 kilogram bags, and the app scales them to your field. Most of the nitrogen goes where the crop builds yield, like tillering and panicle initiation in rice. A young crop gets a small starter instead of a big dose it cannot use. For the methods behind each fertilizer application, see our guide to fertilizer application methods.
Five programs to choose from
Anee writes five fertilizer programs for the same stages, each for a different kind of farmer. For example, one may keep cost low while another pushes for the top yield. Another may use only 14 14 14 fertilizer for a farmer who wants one product. Each one shows its total bags. It also checks the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium it gives against your target, so a shortfall shows at once.
Why these bags on this soil
The report explains its choices in plain words. On a salty or sodic soil, Anee keeps muriate of potash late and light, since it adds chloride the soil does not need. Ammonium sulfate fertilizer supplies sulfur and slowly lowers the pH of an alkaline soil. In flooded rice, urea fertilizer goes in small splits into shallow water, never onto a full flood. She also lists what a farmer here might have done instead, and why it would fail on your ground.
Sprays, water and threats
For each insect, disease or weed, the report gives the stage it strikes and the sign to act on. Then it names a product to ask for, with its active ingredient, or an equivalent. It never gives a spray rate, because the dose is on the label. Follow the label and the FPA registration.
Foliar sprays appear only where they pay, like a zinc spray on flooded rice. Our guide to foliar fertilizer explains when one helps. The water plan fits your source, with what to change if the season turns dry or wet. Finally, you see the deficiencies your soil is prone to, and if your target yield is realistic.
Anee has not walked your field, so change the plan to fit what you know. Then write your own in the Protocol Builder, and let Anee review it before you plant.
Keep it, ask about it, build on it
Each protocol stays on the Saved tab, with a name, description and tags you can search. Tap Attach to Anee to ask her about any stage. The totals give the bags for the whole field, amounts only, so you can price them with your dealer.
Before this tool, pick the crop with the What to Plant Analysis and the seed with Variety Ranking. The Crop Protocol Analysis runs on credits with Libre plus Anee, Solo Farmer or Farm Owner.
How the crop protocol analysis helps your crops and your farm
- A whole season planned in one sitting. Fertilizer, sprays and water by growth stage, written for your place and variety.
- Fertilizer that pays for itself. Each bag goes in at the stage the crop needs it, so less is wasted and the harvest it can feed is clear.
- Fewer surprises mid season. The threats of your season and your field are named with what to watch for and when.
- A plan you can run. Send it to your board or your Protocol Builder and the season starts from a plan, not from memory.
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