UNDER DEVELOPMENT: An additional Tab, to be added to Spraywise Decisions before Christmas, will enable users to identify which previous years were most similar to the current season and what was the outcome of those years. Functionality is also being modified to enable Spraywise Decisions to be delivered by mobile phone and other hand held devices from early 2009. PRICEWISE DECISIONS is now in beta test mode and will be released by end November!!!!

COMING SOON! Pricewise Decisions will be released in early November as a complementary information system to Spraywise Decisions. Sponsored by Grain Growers Association Ltd, Pricewise Decisions will enable landholders to obtain real-time pricing options and farm gate equivalent prices, net of transport costs, for crop commodities sold to any buyer and delivered to any silo or port in Australia. This is a significant new initiative that will reduce complexity and risk of marketing crop commodities.

7 DAY FREE TRIAL RE-ACTIVATED FOR ALL USERS. We have received feedback from many previous users who were so pre-occupied by peak growing season demands when annual fees were introduced that their account expired before they could enrol as a subscriber. ALL PREVIOUS USERS NOW HAVE 7 DAYS FREE ACCESS AFTER THEY NEXT CHOOSE TO LOG-IN to confirm their subscription by remitting their annual fee. Total number of users now exceeds 4,800 and total number of sessions since early May 2008 now exceeds 82,000. Thanks for your support!!!  

NEW IMPROVED WEATHER ANIMATION TAB: Faster loading individual frames, better user control to run, freeze, advance and rewind. User can select their parameter of interest. Each parameter incorporates the last 14 frames. Daily rainfall forecast maps now out to 14 days as well as cumulative rainfall in prospect for next 14 days to assist with forward planning. 

From today, ongoing access to Spraywise Decisions is conditional on annual subscription payments of $132 (incl GST) for rural landholders (1 fixed point and 3 movable points) and $275 (incl GST) for retail outlets and other corporate customers (1 fixed point and 19 movable points). The 7 day fee free trial will continue for all new users before annual subscriptions are payable.

ATTENTION TOP CROPPERS: For those who have remitted points we have changed the expiry date to be 30 September 2009. FOR TOPCROPPERS WHO HAVE NOT YET PAID OR REMITTED POINTS YOU HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT NEXT TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER. Thereafter, log-ins for unsubscribed Top Croppers will not work!!! 

ACCURACY TAB NOW ACCESSIBLE! Spraywise Decisions is the only site in the world that provides indicative accuracies of weather forecasts for any parameter, time frame or location. We will shortly release animated weather maps that load faster and allow users to pause, rewind or fast forward individual frames. Number of users is approaching 5,000. Total sessions since mid May now exceeds 67,000. THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT!        

SERVER UPGRADE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED. Last Wednesday we successfully installed additional servers to ensure that Spraywise Decisions will remain on-line even if our primary application servers fail. Subscriptions and daily session numbers continue to grow. Next week we will release a WEATHER FORECAST ACCURACY tab to give users confidence that they can rely on Spraywise Decisions for operational purposes. Spraywise Decisions will be the first comprehensive web based weather forecast service in the world to provide accuracies with each forecast.      

Top Croppers have until the end of August to notify Nufarm that they wish to remit points or pay for an ongoing subscription. Total user numbers are approaching 4,500. Total sessions since mid May have now exceeded 60,000. Meteograms now display values, times and dates as you mouse along charts. Weather map animation sequencing bugs are now fixed. We are working on a more advanced animation tool that is faster and gives users more control to freeze, advance and rewind. From next week users will see a significant increase in accuracy of temperature forecasts thanks to new improved site specific processing. COMING SOON: Location, date, time and parameter specific accuracy estimates that are continually updated. This will be the first site in the world to provide accuracies with weather forecasts.

All users must now provide a legitimate email address to access Spraywise Decisions. We have also added a Profile function to the Task Bar so that users, particularly those relying on dial-up access, can disable animations in the Weather tab (except for predicted rainfall in the next 5 days), or change any other default settings. Users are also now able to Print, export and send the last frame of Weather tab animated outputs. Additional functionality to be released soon includes location, time, date and parameter specific accuracy estimates that are continually updated. This will be the first site in the world to provide accuracies with weather predictions. From midnight Thursday 31 July, log-ins for users that are not Nufarm Top Croppers will no longer work unless you have paid for an ongoing annual subscription. Nufarm Top Croppers have until the end of August 2008 to remit points or pay for an ongoing annual subscription. The number of users since the site opened in mid May is rapidly approaching 5,000 while the number of sessions has now exceeded 50,000. Thanks for your support!!!