DAVIS GroWeatherLink Software - Manual (Page 57)

U S I N G T H E S O F T W A R E
Crop Menu
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C R O P M E N U
The Crop menu contains commands which allow you to manage a list
of crops to assist you in irrigation scheduling. Each of the commands is
explained separately below.
New Crop
You may manage crop irrigation for as many crops as you want. For each crop
you may enter crop and date-specific K factors (so the software can calculate ETc)
and irrigation amounts.
1. Choose New Crop from the Crop menu.
The Crop Water Management dialog box appears.
C ROP W ATER M ANAGEMENT
2. Enter the following information:
▲ Crop Name
Enter the name of the crop and any other identifying text into the text box.
Note: The software uses the first 8 characters of the Crop Name (not including punctuation
and spaces) as the file name under which it stores crop water management informa-
tion. The first 8 characters of each crop name must be unique.
▲ Plant Date
Enter the date on which this crop was planted into the text box.
▲ Start Date
Enter the starting date for ETc and irrigation calculation into the text box.
▲ End Date
Enter the ending date for ETc and irrigation calculation into the text box.