Actual yield expressed as a percentage of the water-limited potential yield the season could have grown. It separates the ceiling set by rainfall (which you can’t change) from the gap set by management (which you can).
Across Australian grain paddocks the average crop reaches only about half of its water-limited potential; leading growers consistently close the gap to 80–90%.
Yield Gap Australia ↗The size of the gap is your improvement budget in tonnes. A persistent gap points at a fixable constraint — sowing date, nutrition, a soil limitation — rather than a run of bad seasons, and tells you where the next dollar of investment pays back.
Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses, and keeps the figure current automatically.
Diagnose the single biggest constraint per zone before spending broadly.
Address subsoil limitations — acidity, sodicity, compaction — that cap roots.
Fine-tune nitrogen timing to the season rather than a fixed budget.
Actual yield expressed as a percentage of the water-limited potential yield the season could have grown. It separates the ceiling set by rainfall (which you can’t change) from the gap set by management (which you can).
You need: Actual grain yield (t/ha), Water-limited potential yield (t/ha). Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses and keeps the figure current automatically.
Across Australian grain paddocks the average crop reaches only about half of its water-limited potential; leading growers consistently close the gap to 80–90%.
Diagnose the single biggest constraint per zone before spending broadly. Address subsoil limitations — acidity, sodicity, compaction — that cap roots. Fine-tune nitrogen timing to the season rather than a fixed budget.
Connect the software, spreadsheets and records you already keep, and Silo keeps every benchmark on this page current automatically.
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