Special Features
- It contains a watershed builder subroutine in which users can delineate individual field (subarea) attributes including upland slope, soil characteristic, cropping system, land condition, routing reach and channel characteristics, livestock activity, and one or more weather stations.
- Attributes can be edited for alternative analyses and comparisons of farm and field losses.
- In addition to terracing and contour farming, the user is able to create buffer strip subareas within existing fields to determine the impact on runoff and erosion.
- Information is saved, sorted and can be edited at the farm and field level.
- Control Table Editor is used to customize control parameters for each farm including years of simulation, beginning year of simulation, channel and floodplain geometry, PET equation, etc.
- Subarea file is used to customize each field including auto-irrigation and auto- fertilization strategies among numerous other field level control parameters. This file controls management, land condition, soil and hydrologic parameters of each field.
- Generates daily weather from monthly statistics if daily weather data is missing.
- Stand-alone utility to download and update daily weather records to current day from the web or user collected/supplied daily records.
- Yearly/monthly/daily data output at the farm and field level to ACCESS tables enabling manipulation of data within EXCEL.
