Dominant (top) height by stand age — the average height of the tallest, best-grown trees. Because top height is largely independent of stocking, it is the cleanest early expression of a site’s productive quality.
On good south-west WA sites blue gum gains up to 2 m of height a year when young, reaching 25–30 m of dominant height by a 10-year rotation.
FWPA ↗Height at age is the standard site-index signal: a stand tracking above the district curve at year 3 will almost always finish with a higher MAI. It is your earliest, cheapest read on whether the crop will hit its yield target.
Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses, and keeps the figure current automatically.
Control competing weeds hard through the first two growing seasons.
Address nutrient deficiencies picked up in early foliar sampling.
Select the best-performing seed orchard families for the site type.
Dominant (top) height by stand age — the average height of the tallest, best-grown trees. Because top height is largely independent of stocking, it is the cleanest early expression of a site’s productive quality.
You need: Top height by measured plot (m), Stand age at measurement (yr). Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses and keeps the figure current automatically.
On good south-west WA sites blue gum gains up to 2 m of height a year when young, reaching 25–30 m of dominant height by a 10-year rotation.
Control competing weeds hard through the first two growing seasons. Address nutrient deficiencies picked up in early foliar sampling. Select the best-performing seed orchard families for the site type.
Connect the software, spreadsheets and records you already keep, and Silo keeps every benchmark on this page current automatically.
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