Features of the Hybrid-Maize software
(current version 2016. Click here to download the peer-reviewed publication on the lasted version)
General
- Four simulation modes:
- Single year
- Single year with long-term runs
- Long-term run
- Current season prediction
- Two water conditions:
- Optimal water supply (for potential growth and yield)
- Rainfed/irrigation (for water limited growth and yield)
- Intuitive and simply input settings
- Start either from planting or emergence
- Maturity can be set by total GDD/GDU, or relative maturity rating, or actual date of physiological maturity (i.e., blacklayer)
- Option of setting date of silking or GDD-to-silking
- Option of English units or metric units
- Input settings can be saved and retrieved
- Topic sensitive help system
- Comprehensive user's guide with examples of applications and complete scientific documentation.
For irrigated conditions
- Model estimation irrigation requirement for both timing and amounty
- Easy and flexible entry of irrigation schedule
Simulation outputs
- Graphic presentations for easy understanding as well as numerical outputs for precise applications
- Summary results as well as daily outputs
- Comprehensive result presentations for easy understanding of crop responses to weather, soil properties and crop management
Weather data format and preparations
- Built-in utility for automatic conversion of weather data downloaded from AWDN of HPRCC
- Easy preparation of weather data in a spreadsheet for raw data from other sources
- Flexible data format without need for alignment
- Built-in utility for checking weather data for erroneous or missing entries
For scientific research
- Complete documentation for model formulation
- Transparent and modifiable internal model parameters with the option of restoring to default values by a single mouse click
- One click loading of numerical results into spreadsheet programs
For questions, comments or suggestions, contact:
Dr. Haishun Yang
Department of Agronomy & Horticulture
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
P.O. Box 830915, Lincoln, NE 68583-0915, USA
Phone: +1-402-472-6372, Fax: +1-402-472-7904
E-mail: hyang2@unl.edu