CottonTracka™ (patent pending) is a cotton crop visualisation tool currently in development by CSD to assist Australian cotton growers, consultants and agronomists achieve better outcomes through monitoring cotton crop growth and development. Features include a full record of crop data and crop progress overview including estimated date of first flower and yield predictions, current season and historical climate analysis, all contained within a secure, user only accessible environment.The power of CottonTracka is its autonomy as this application aggregates the combined benefits of:

CSD Day Degree calculator
CSD Ambassador Network
STEFF™ (first flower prediction algorithm)
BARRY (CSIRO & CSD Yield Prediction model)

We believe CottonTracka acts at the intersection of data management, cotton crop agronomy and the environment. Growers can utilise CottonTracka to gain informed, real time visual insights of cotton development, environmental impacts, performance and yield predictions throughout the season.The easy to read dashboard view offers a visual guide to current metrics as well as local climate information that provides a valuable overview of the season, all at a glance. The dashboard targets for growth and development have been created by harnessing the power of the CSD Ambassador Network, in turn providing growers with valuable insights into their cottons performance in parallel to ambassador benchmarks.This quick and easy reference is similar to the gauges in a tractor, CottonTracka simply shows the important information about your crop in a visual manner. If a parameter is falling outside of a range the grower is in a position to consider and respond accordingly.Add the benefits of access to daily weather records with current and historical seasonal climate summaries, CottonTracka provides growers with a fast and simple overview of current and past season metrics allowing real time understanding of environmental influence upon crop performance.Armed with this information grower’s will know the progress of the cotton crop somewhat similar to the performance of their tractors.In summary, CottonTracka does all the work! It is the user’s discretion on what data they choose to add. Importantly, in the absence of cotton crop data, CottonTracka is still a powerful aggregator of local climate data.Further integration of other modules and tools are in the development pipeline to further enhance the power of CottonTracka.