Date
2016/01/01
Organisations
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
Precision Agriculture
GRDC
Controlled traffic farming (CTF) is your long-term management strategy to minimise the effect of compaction on crop production. The aim is to reduce the trafficked area of your paddock as much as possible. A fully matched system is trafficking about 9 to 12% of the paddock.
The CTF calculator can help you estimate the percentage of your paddock currently trafficked and assess compaction management options for your farm including controlled traffic farming and deep tillage.
This calculator assists by comparing the trafficking percentage of current machinery setups to potential future machinery configurations. This information is helpful for making decisions about machinery investment for minimising the risk of compaction and setting up controlled traffic farming system.
Features
- Operating widths, tyre information, swath width of different tractors / machines / implements can be entered
- Different scenarios can be compared for different soil types to calculate trafficked area of paddock and estimated benefit to managing compaction. The compaction penalties in the program have been collated from research across Australia, or own penalties / yield loss can be used.
