Digital Agriculture Services (DAS) today released its Winter Crop Rotation Analysis Report showcasing an evolution in how the relationship between crop rotations and yields can be quantified and understood across the Australian grain industry.
The report comes at a pertinent time as Australia spends nearly $3 billion on agricultural research and development each year, aiming to improve outcomes and production across the entire sector.
Powered by its proprietary DAS Grain Intelligence data, which offers unprecedented visibility across 1.69 million broadacre paddocks in Australia, the report reveals the most prevalent crop rotations across Australia but also points to how new methodologies can be used to quantify the effect of rotation on yield.
The results are likely the most complete breakdown of contemporary Australian crop rotation practices available, with much more detailed analyses yet to be done.
The report highlights major findings using data across 2019 to 2024 seasons, including:
These analyses can deliver a step change in farming systems research—either augmenting or replacing the multi-year field trials, bringing research findings to growers in months rather than years. DAS data can also enable grower adoption of research to be quantified at scale without requiring data collection from growers.
“DAS has developed the most comprehensive spatial database of its kind with its Grain Intelligence offering, mapping every broadacre paddock in Australia and capturing data on crop type, area, yield, hay cuts, and harvests—updated annually since 2019. With over 124,000 ground-truth data points for winter crops alone, this technology is quantifiably accurate and is reshaping industry standards” DAS CEO Anthony Willmott said.
"The analysis in this report is the first step as part of our broader research on how farming systems and climate interact to drive crop production," added Willmott. "In the future, we intend to look at the impact of longer rotation cycles, the yield of all crops in rotation, the impact of seasonal conditions, and a rotation's gross margins".
“We believe that DAS crop rotation data could replace or significantly augment many crop rotation field trials and related farming systems research projects - with the key advantages of being able to test hypotheses in weeks or months rather than years, with far less resources required”.
The report release comes as other industry leaders look to digitalise their processes, with reference being made to DAS’ long term collaboration with the Australia Bureau of Statistics who are transforming how agricultural statistics are produced.
Download the report here.
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About DAS
DAS is a technology company that delivers location intelligence for financial services and enterprises, with a unified system of data, insights, software and CRM integrations. A product-focused fintech, DAS is accelerating innovation across the entire agri-enterprise ecosystem. Decision-makers use DAS' unique ecosystem of products and tools to get the multi-dimensional intelligence they need to lend, insure, invest and sell better in a dynamic climate.
Five years ago, DAS pioneered its vision for the Rural Intelligence Platform™, transforming how decisions are made in the businesses surrounding agriculture for a safer, more resilient, more prosperous, more sustainable world. Today, DAS' platform has evolved to meet an acute area of need for financial services and agri-enterprise, with over 140 customers including Rabobank, IAG, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Nutrien, Cargill and Viterra. Integrating location intelligence, climate, productivity, sustainability, risk and carbon data, it offers the multi-dimensional intelligence they need to lend, insure, invest and sell better.