Accurately predicting green bean harvest date and yield for every week of the year is essential to business sustainability, reputation and customer confidence. This CRC collaboration project aimed to develop and evaluate a commercial (in-house) green bean crop maturity model that could track and predict the maturity of sequentially planted green bean crops using historical Mulgowie crop development and yield records.
These records (from multiple production sites) were analysed by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) data specialists. The historical data was combined with, and enhanced by, published green bean crop physiology data and field observation studies by Mulgowie, QUT and Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) project staff.
