General

• Four simulation modes:
  • Single year
  • Single year with long-term runs
  • Long-term run
  • Current season prediction
• Two water conditions:
  • Optimal water supply (for potential growth and yield)
  • Rainfed/irrigation (for water limited growth and yield)
• Intuitive and simply input settings
• Start either from planting or emergence
• Maturity can be set by total GDD/GDU, or relative maturity rating, or actual date of physiological maturity (i.e., blacklayer)
• Option of setting date of silking or GDD-to-silking
• Option of English units or metric units
• Input settings can be saved and retrieved
• Topic sensitive help system
• Comprehensive user's guide with examples of applications and complete scientific documentation.

For irrigated conditions

• Model estimation irrigation requirement for both timing and amounty
• Easy and flexible entry of irrigation schedule

Simulation outputs

• Graphic presentations for easy understanding as well as numerical outputs for precise applications
• Summary results as well as daily outputs
• Comprehensive result presentations for easy understanding of crop responses to weather, soil properties and crop management

Weather data format and preparations

• Built-in utility for automatic conversion of weather data downloaded from AWDN of HPRCC
• Easy preparation of weather data in a spreadsheet for raw data from other sources
• Flexible data format without need for alignment
• Built-in utility for checking weather data for erroneous or missing entries

For scientific research

• Complete documentation for model formulation
• Transparent and modifiable internal model parameters with the option of restoring to default values by a single mouse click
• One click loading of numerical results into spreadsheet programs