What is PAM AusVit?

PAM AusVit is a management and decision support software system for use in vineyards.

Modern technologies have been incorporated to give you a genuine management information system. You can make INFORMED decisions. You simply enter your daily events and PAM AusVit uses that data to deliver useful information in the form of reports and graphs.

What can you expect from PAM AusVit?
PAM AusVit is designed to assist in vineyard management decision making through the recording, analysis and reporting of critical activities, events and conditions within the vineyard. It aims to assist growers and managers achieve their target levels of vineyard efficiency, yield and fruit quality, while reducing the risk of crop losses and minimising the use of chemicals. PAM AusVit can provide information on the prevailing situation in a vineyard and any action required, based on current scientific knowledge and management practices. Through the recording and analysis of vineyard monitoring results and weather conditions, PAM AusVit aims to determine more accurately when disease and insect damage will occur and suggests possible courses of action.
It can also provide recommendations on irrigation scheduling, with the aim of improving fruit quality.
The recommendations, together with summary reports of the vineyard block profile, irrigation schedule, spray records, nutrition recommendations and scouting results may all be printed as required.
A comprehensive chemical database is also included, providing an easy to use detailed reference to assist growers and vineyard managers find the information they need on the registered chemicals commonly used in vineyards.

AusVit's Main Features

Informed Vineyard Management & Decision Making.

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
• Manages vineyard blocks over an unlimited number of seasons.
• Individual records for each block in many vineyards
• Individual profiles for each vineyard block
• Provides a comprehensive spray diary and includes up to date QA spray diary reporting plus spray ordering and spray planning
• Enables the entry of yield estimates data and generates yield estimate reports
• Records scouting details for each vineyard throughout the season
• Converts raw weather station data into more readable form
• Records all machinery and manual tasks and provides comprehensive reports of costs and usage
• Records all staff activities and the costs
• Records all fertiliser applications and provides comprehensive reports
• Maintains an inventory of all consumables as well as a harvested produce inventory
• Provides a useful general purpose diary for any non-production recording notes
• Interfaces with handheld data entry systems (“Pocket PAM”) for in field data collection of all production and scouting related information .

PREDICTION MODELS & PEST MANAGEMENT
• Predicts Light Brown Apple Moth flights and egg hatches
• Predicts downy mildew oil spots
• Provides a powdery mildew management strategy
• Provides black spot infection information
• Provides a Botrytis management strategy
• Gives recommendations on spray timing
• Gives you access to the most recent chemical product registration information
• Provides a complete planning system enabling you to create plans of the complete strategy for the season ahead.

REPORTING
• Provides day to day event planning and generates specific job planning reports.
• Can summarise weather data into hourly or daily form
• Charts recent weather data so you can easily observe trends
• Has in excess of 250 different reports and graphs as well as a complete user defined reporting system which include a facility to exports data to spreadsheet programs for further analysis
• Presents end of season reports

PLANT HEALTH
• Records petiole tests and interprets nutritional needs for the vineyard
• Records soil tests and generates graphs and reports of your soil data
• Records and recommends vineyard irrigation scheduling and critical stress levels

CROPPING & RELATED ACTIVITIES

Chemical Applications
Including associated climatic conditions, targets and batch numbers. Even when you use more than one batch number in the one operation! Automatically update your inventory. Save your special tank mixes for re-use. Easily monitor and assess herbicide resistance problems.

Crop Monitoring
Record ANY monitoring activity that you decide to configure in PAM. For example: Canopy Coverage, Plant Densities.

Seeding/Planting
Keep crop/varietal information, row spacing, planting rate and have your costs calculated automatically.

Fertiliser Applications
Including associated products, rates and batch numbers. Automatically update your inventory. PAM even enables you create to special fertiliser blends.

Harvest Delivery
Keep detailed harvest information such as class/grade of crop and multiple monitoring items (protein, moisture etc..)

Weed Records
Keep weed population records. Record who carried out the inspection and any comments you may have.

Irrigation Records
Associated pump/water source and the application rate in mm (calculated). PAM is being successfully used in many different irrigation environments… From flood to drippers, centre pivots to channels.

Manual Tasks
Create your own manual tasks and keep a track of those tasks and costing's, as well as who carried out the task. Generate various useful reports like “Who did what, when, where and for how much!”

Pests & Diseases
Record the observation/pest, reading, crop growth stage, pest growth stage as well as who carried out the observation and any comments you may have. Graph one or more pest populations to monitor results of spraying.

Staff & Contractors
You can ensure that your information is accurate by defining contract labour as well as full time staff.

Sundry Items
Sundry consumables are those items that don’t fit into the categories of Chemicals, Fertilisers, Crop Seed, Livestock Feeds and Veterinary Drugs. All sundries consumed are automatically removed from your inventory system.

Machinery Operations
Machinery operations can be associated to any other activity or recorded as a separate operation. A built in machinery cost calculator helps you assess your machinery costing. Machinery operations can be costed by Area ($/Ha) or Time ($/Hour) or by units of application ($/Tonne, $/Litre)