Graincast

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)

Main DI webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution