AgPro

AgPro is a single click install, data management, interpretation, and reporting software program enabling Computer Aided Design of Agronomic Recommendations (CADAR) for growers, certified distributors and consultants. AgPro comes in three versions:

	AgPro/Grower
	AgPro/Distributor
	AgPro/Consultant

AgPro, through its ingenious range of data capture methods including full online user integration, turns basic farm information, certified laboratory results, and tailored grower requirements, into a simple, easy to understand, graphically represented report. Developing an application that generates a suite of tailored reports compiled using over 20 years of nutritional expertise does not come easily. Every variable is put through a complex array of sophisticated calculations developed over years of practical involvement in all aspects of the horticultural industries. Data is captured from the length of the supply chain to ensure an end to end reporting solution. Dot Matrix technology using camera pens to convert hand written forms into digital data fields that can be imported into AgPro ensures farm management is kept simple, while still enabling sophisticated data analysis on farm performance. Standardised forms to enable consistency of data collection and regulatory compliance are below:

AgPro empowers consultants to provide professional advice on soils management, plant nutrition and IPM. AgPro is a proven and robust software application, a complete end-to-end system, with the application on your PC incorporating internet-based support systems. AgPro software saves you time and also helps you to keep your independence; interpretation of nutrient rates, product selection and ongoing access to client data for trend analysis, especially valuable for product trial evaluations and efficacy trials.

AgPro provides the consultant with comprehensive interpretation capability for soil, plant, water and pest data by way of interpretative models and tables that reside on an https secure central server which is accessed by an application installed on the users’ computer.

AgPro contains over 150 horticultural crops that are linked to over 500 stored varieties. All winter cereals, pulses & oilseeds, summer grains and cotton are also included in the system. Optimal levels of nutrients are calculated for every unique situation, based on dozens of variables including, irrigation type, soil type, soil condition and structure, crop variety, crop stage plant vigour, fruit set, bulk density soil drainage, water logging or dry stress, yield goals, Nutrient use efficiencies and fallow crop contribution to nutrient amounts.

The AgPro interpretative capabilities and models are based on the latest data available in scientific literature, combined with practical verification by experienced agronomists on a regional basis with extensive field experience. Being independent of any fertiliser product sales, AgPro is uniquely placed to help consultants, distributors and growers better understand the overall performance of crop inputs used, to provide a balanced view of crop requirements soil health and a recommendation that addresses both fertilisers and soil amendments, application type, rate and application timing.

Using AgPro, you will be supported by a team of specialists in soils, plant nutrition, IPM (integrated pest management), chemical, biological and fertiliser products and agricultural IT. The focus of this team is to improve the efficiency and profitability of producers by facilitating the optimal use of crop production inputs through training, testing, consulting services and (CADAR) by their preferred consultants that create worlds’ best practices in crop management systems through innovation based on science.

At its core AgPro aims to deliver high quality, integrated, independent advice, – AgPro’s CADAR functionality ensures:

	consistency in report format and result display
	accuracy of recommendation content
	risk mitigation by specific agronomic constraints to avoid incorrect advice
	accuracy of nutrient requirement calculations
	compliance to legislative requirements

Hortus is actively involved in scientific research in plant nutrition and the development and delivery of industry training programs for soils management, plant nutrition and fertiliser application to growers, consultants and distributors all over Australia.

Consultants and distributors have access to a comprehensive list of fertiliser products available from their selected fertiliser distributors or manufacturers supplying the Australian market. This list is updated on an ongoing basis as products change in the market. Consultants also have the ability to insert products into their own unique product database. Every product is stored by it’s elemental composition, effect on the plant, effect on the soil effect on pH and compatibility.

Hortus Technical Services strive to provide results which meet the demands and methods required by all sectors. This has lead to standardisation of extraction methods to comply with best practice within the industry.

Hortus is accredited with ASPAC, the Australian Soil and Plant Analysis Council, who promote the unification of soil extraction methods used in Australia to improve inter laboratory comparability of soil test results. ASPAC supports ammonium acetate and DTPA extraction. These methods are widely used and accepted worldwide.

Hortus Technical Services are proud to be leading the way in establishing Bundaberg as the national centre of agronomic technology.

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