BFDC (Better Fertiliser Decisions for Cropping) Interrogator User Survey

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* 1. Please enter your details

Name

City/Town

State/Province

Email Address

Phone Number

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* 2. Briefly describe your job / main career experience

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* 3. Would you be happy for us to phone you to follow up? (Unlikely, only if needed)

Yes

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* 4. Your Industry / Expertise Area(s) (multiple answers OK)

Dryland Grains

Irrigated Grains

Cotton

Grazing

Dairy

Horticulture

Other - please specify e.g. Sugar, agriculture student or academic

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* 5. Your number of years of experience in soil & crop / plant nutrition?

0-2 years

2-5 years

5-10 years

10-20 years

20-30 years

30-40 years

more than 40 years!

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Your reason for making the effort to engage in this future of BFDC survey?

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* 7. Please give a brief description of your history / involvement with BFDC:

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* 8. Do you use or are you reasonably familiar with any of the following nutrient Decision Support Systems? (These systems reference BFDC)

NUlogic (CSBP)

Summit Fertilizer Decision Support System (for Summit Field staff)

SoilMate (Back Paddock)

Nutrient Advantage Advice (Incitec Pivot)

None of the above

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* 9. Are you a current/recent user of BFDC Interrogator?

Yes

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* 10. If you are not using BFDC, why not? (Multiple answers allowed)

Did not know about it

Access to software (e.g. authorisation issue)

Utility of the software

A technical reason (e.g. Internet access) (Explain your reason below)

My region/crop/enterprise/nutrient not adequately covered in database

Information already extracted that I required – no further need to use BFDC Interrogator

My job role has changed

Other (please specify)

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* 11. What do you use BFDC Interrogator for?

Developing interpretations leading to fertiliser recommendation

Research

Education

Other (please specify)

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* 12. What do you like about BFDC?

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* 13. What don’t you like about BFDC?

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* 14. Have you been trained in BFDC?

Yes

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* 15. If yes, how were you trained?

Face-to-face

Online

Other (please specify)

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* 16. What training needs do you think are required for users of BFDC Interrogator?

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* 17. Do you have any suggestions for how best to deliver those training needs? Please expand.

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* 18. How can BFDC benefit the Australian grains industry?

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* 19. What specific suggestions do you have for achieving any of those benefits with BFDC?

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* 20. Can you identify any nutrition research gaps in the data in the Australian grains industry? Please expand:

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* 21. Currently BFDC provides a nutrient-relative yield calibration curve. Would any other information be useful? (if any) Please explain:

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* 22. Do you want to be able to directly access process data and/or conduct your own interrogation of the data?

Yes

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* 1. Please enter your details

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* 2. Briefly describe your job / main career experience

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* 3. Would you be happy for us to phone you to follow up? (Unlikely, only if needed)

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* 4. Your Industry / Expertise Area(s) (multiple answers OK)

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* 5. Your number of years of experience in soil & crop / plant nutrition?

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* 6. Your reason for making the effort to engage in this future of BFDC survey?

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* 7. Please give a brief description of your history / involvement with BFDC:

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* 8. Do you use or are you reasonably familiar with any of the following nutrient Decision Support Systems? (These systems reference BFDC)

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* 9. Are you a current/recent user of BFDC Interrogator?

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* 10. If you are not using BFDC, why not? (Multiple answers allowed)

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* 11. What do you use BFDC Interrogator for?

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* 12. What do you like about BFDC?

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* 13. What don’t you like about BFDC?

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* 14. Have you been trained in BFDC?

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* 15. If yes, how were you trained?

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* 16. What training needs do you think are required for users of BFDC Interrogator?

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* 17. Do you have any suggestions for how best to deliver those training needs? Please expand.

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* 18. How can BFDC benefit the Australian grains industry?

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* 19. What specific suggestions do you have for achieving any of those benefits with BFDC?

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* 20. Can you identify any nutrition research gaps in the data in the Australian grains industry? Please expand:

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* 21. Currently BFDC provides a nutrient-relative yield calibration curve. Would any other information be useful? (if any) Please explain:

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* 22. Do you want to be able to directly access process data and/or conduct your own interrogation of the data?

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* 23. What is required to sustain BFDC into the future? Eg Data input, funding, etc etc

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* 24. Are there any other roles that BFDC should fill? Please explain:

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* 25. Do you have any thoughts about how BFDC should be managed into the future? And/or by whom? Please explain:

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* 26. Do you have suggestions for how BFDC should be funded?