Summary

The Property and Climate section shows detected types of land use, how arable the property may be and high level summaries of climate and productivity information found in detail elsewhere in the report.

How to use this information

Use this information to understand:

• How much of the property’s land is currently used for agricultural production
• What land is potentially appropriate for cropping, livestock or revegetation
• The cropping potential of the land
• Whether the property is particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events

Components

• Map data layer showing arability, where flatness is the underlying metric (the more flat the land is, the more arable it is)

• Map data layer showing detected land use types (eg: cropping)

• Table showing high-level land, terrain and soil attributes:

  • Amount of arable land in hectares
  • Percentage of the total property area that is arable
  • The two largest detected land use types, and the percentage of the total property area taken up by each of them
  • The two largest detected soil types, and the percentage of the total property area taken up by each of them

• Chart showing the annual rainfall on the property, based on an average of the last 50 years’ rainfall data

• Chart showing the calculated ‘Climate risk’ score based on the occurrence of past extreme weather events

• Chart showing the potential productivity of the cropping land on the property (Note that this chart only includes data if cropping land use has been detected)

Useful to know

About Arability

Arability (left), land use (right)

Arability (left), land use (right)

Arability is calculated based upon the slope of the land using differences in elevation, which is grouped into tiers:

• Arable: Less than 5.7 degrees