Graincast
Australia
Graincast is a digital agriculture initiative from CSIRO that provides real-time and early-season crop monitoring and identification, and crop-yield forecasts. It enable users to monitor and forecast grain yields after entering a series of inputs into a smartphone app. The data generated through the app is then used to inform machine learning models to determine what crops are grown where. The app can help grain growers forecast soil moisture and crop yield in individual paddocks or at whole of farm level, and also enables forecasting of grain production at the regional and national scales. Using simple local paddock information, national high-resolution satellite and sensor data sources and CSIRO's innovative analytics, the free Graincastâ„¢ app seeks to help growers with their crop decision-making instincts. It uses national weather and soils information to forecast soil moisture and yield for the grain crops planted.
Lead (category)
Private enterprise (Agritech startup)
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
Being implemented by an Australian agritech enterprise.
DI ICT-deliverables format
Mobile applications
Cloud-based
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Agribusiness / private organization
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
All over Australia
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution