On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 21:50:44 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
On August 12, 2021 8:23:07 PM GMT+12:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
In a report in this evening’s TV1 news, NZ farmers have been using a piece of software to help them estimate their environmental groundwater impact that, according to some reports, is giving wildly inaccurate results <https://1news.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/software-estimating-much-fertiliser-effluent-leaches-farmland-flawed>
Is that Overseer? If so, that's originally from the 90s...
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/advice/9621180/Overseer-nutrient-soft...
That's the name, all right. According to that report I linked, the complaints about its (in)accuracy go back maybe as far as 10 years. So perhaps the problems are specific to the newer functionality. For example, that article keeps describing it as a “nutrient budgeting” tool (presumably to keep expenses under control), whereas last night’s report was concentrating on effluent leaching, i.e. environmental impacts.