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APSIM & The APSIM Initiative

APSIM & The APSIM Initiative. The Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (APSRU) was founded in the early 1990’s to bring together like minded scientists in the field of farming systems research. Parties were CSIRO and the State of Qld.

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APSIM & The APSIM Initiative

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  1. APSIM & The APSIM Initiative

  2. The Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (APSRU) was founded in the early 1990’s to bring together like minded scientists in the field of farming systems research. Parties were CSIRO and the State of Qld. APSRU grew out of work pioneered in Queensland, it developed APSIM and had a large portfolio of collaborative projects. In 2006, it was recommended that APSIM development be split from the farming systems research History

  3. APSRU is now an informal collaborative network Collaboration is around farming systems, climate risk management and adaptation, and crop adaptation and improvement R&D Meeting point to discuss science opportunities, share knowledge, ideas and learning’s and develop new collaborative projects APSRU

  4. The APSIM initiative (AI) has been established to promote the development and use of the science modules and infrastructure software of APSIM. The AI records a shift in focus in how APSIM is managed. APSIM development, maintenance and commercialisation are now the responsibility of the AI and so are now separate from the research-oriented projects activities. The Foundation Members of the AI are CSIRO, the State of Queensland (DAFF) and The University of Queensland. New parties are welcome to join at any time. Purpose: Ongoing development and maintenance of a world class framework for the testing and simulating of agricultural systems The APSIM Initiative

  5. An open and transparent ‘APSIM Community Source Framework’ (modified open source) Aims to facilitate broadly based, collaborative science Best practice software development & maintenance Version control process Science quality control Scientific Reference Panel acts like an editorial board IP & risk management APSIM training & support Free public good licensing (R&D and education) Commercial delivery arrangements Approved by Steering Committee AI Technical & Business Agenda

  6. What is APSIM? • A highly advanced agricultural systems model created: • to model system performance over time • with an equal emphasis on crop and soil dimensions • with a capability to deal comprehensively with management matters • Development and maintenance is underpinned by rigorous science and software engineering standards

  7. The soil provides a central focus, crops, seasons and managers come and go, finding the soil in one state and leaving it in another Features: mechanistic growth of crops, pastures, trees, weeds ... dynamics of populations (eg. weed seedbank) key soil processes (water, solutes, N, P, carbon, pH) surface residue dynamics & erosion dryland or irrigated systems range of management options crop rotations + fallowing + mixtures short or long term effects one or two (multi-point) dimensions high software engineering standards Supports multiple languages links to livestock modules (APSFarm) Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM)

  8. APSIM – Plug-in / Pull-out modularity Climate Farm Management Crop B Crop A Field 1 Livestock Output Surface Organic Matter Field Management Field 2 Soil Nitrogen Soil Phosphorus Soil Water Toolbox

  9. Plant / animal wheat sorghum sugarcane chickpea potato mungbean soybean bambatsi navybean peanut barley maize sunflower oats lucerne oil palm fababean canola lupin mucuna cowpea lablab pearl millet pigeonpearice cotton Trees (Eucalyptus) Pastures Weeds (C3,C4 grass,herb) Stock Environment Met MicroMet SoilWat (tipping bucket) SWIM (Richard’s eqn) SoilN SoilP Solute SurfaceOrganicMatter Erosion SoilTemp WaterStorage APSIM Modules Red modules built as part of international collaboration. Management Manager (sow, harvest, fallow, tillage) Irrigation Fertiliser Intercrop/mixture competition

  10. Animals in APSIM Clock Met Master Paddock Report Manager Soilwat Soilwat paddock1 paddock2 SoilN SoilN Residue Residue Chickpea Chickpea Developed by CSIRO Plant Industry AusFarm APSIM Weather Soil water Paddock Pasture (ryegrass) Pasture (clover) + Soil water Simulate Paddock Pasture (ryegrass) Pasture (clover) Animals Stock Animals Manage + + Output + +

  11. Commercial Use

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