Actual yield expressed as a percentage of the light-limited potential the canopy could have grown. It separates the ceiling set by tree structure and sunlight interception (a longer-term investment) from the gap set by seasonal management (which you can move now).
Orchard yield is ultimately capped by the light the canopy intercepts; research consistently shows a gap between average orchards and the light-limited potential, with leading growers closing it through canopy design and crop-load management.
APAL / AgVic Research ↗The size of the gap is your improvement budget in tonnes. A persistent gap usually points at canopy fill, crop-load or variability between blocks rather than a run of poor seasons, and tells you where the next dollar of renewal or management pays back.
Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses, and keeps the figure current automatically.
Fill the canopy space to intercept more light with training and pruning.
Manage crop load per zone to lift the poorest-performing blocks first.
Reduce block-to-block variability through spatial (zoned) management.
Actual yield expressed as a percentage of the light-limited potential the canopy could have grown. It separates the ceiling set by tree structure and sunlight interception (a longer-term investment) from the gap set by seasonal management (which you can move now).
You need: Actual fruit yield (t/ha), Light-limited potential yield (t/ha). Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses and keeps the figure current automatically.
Orchard yield is ultimately capped by the light the canopy intercepts; research consistently shows a gap between average orchards and the light-limited potential, with leading growers closing it through canopy design and crop-load management.
Fill the canopy space to intercept more light with training and pruning. Manage crop load per zone to lift the poorest-performing blocks first. Reduce block-to-block variability through spatial (zoned) management.
Connect the software, spreadsheets and records you already keep, and Silo keeps every benchmark on this page current automatically.
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