Using bomrang to correlate weather conditions to sorghum stalk rot (charcoal rot)

Package or resource used

bomrang

URL or code snippet for your use case

Full article: https://communities.grdc.com.au/field-crop-diseases/sorghum-disease-survey/

Code gist: https://gist.github.com/adamhsparks/23d6266f4a2b5f19f9edef6970f0364a

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Sector

academic

Field(s) of application

botanical epidemiology, plant pathology, agronomy

What did you do?

I used bomrang’s get_historical() to fetch weather data, rainfall and temperature, for four stations in Queensland and New South Wales to create a climogram to illustrate how rainfall seemingly affected the distribution of sorghum charcoal rot (Macrophomina phaseolina) during the summer season of 2018/19. The article was published online as a part of the GRDC Communities Field Crops Diseases blog.