Agronomic Outcomes
See whether your watering landed, your fungicides held and your greens recovered from aeration and top dressing, judged against your own readings and the season
On this page
Agronomic Outcomes checks whether a job did what it was meant to do — did the watering actually wet the green, did the fungicide hold the disease, and did the green recover on time after aeration or top dressing?
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What does the top card tell me?
It answers one question — Is the work doing its job? — with one word (Yes, Mostly, Mixed, Not so far or Can't tell yet) and a sentence. The ring shows how many of the judged jobs worked.
The tiles count what Worked, what Didn't, what's Waiting for a reading and what Couldn't be judged because no reading was taken after it. Use 3 weeks, 90 days or Season to change the period, and All areas to look at one area.
In a first season, when nothing has been judged yet, the page shows Get your first answers instead: three steps, and the jobs that couldn't be judged and why.
Which jobs get a check?
A watering job on an area gets one when its title says it watered turf — "Hand water greens" or "Water Greens", say. Jobs about the irrigation system itself ("Irrigation pipe dig up", "Audit irrigation") don't. A fungicide spray on an area gets one too, and so does a logged irrigation run on a surface that's linked to an area.
How does it judge a watering?
It looks at your probe readings on that area either side of the watering.
Before
The readings in the 48 hours before the watering.
The morning after
The readings 6 to 30 hours after. This is the probe round the readings job asks for.
Minus a normal dry night
What your own readings do overnight when nothing is watered and it doesn't rain, in the same month.
What's left is the watering
A rise of 2 points or more counts. If you've set moisture target bands, it also tells you whether the area ended inside its band.
Set your target band
Type the low and high figures under Set-up on this page, or set it on Soil Moisture — it's the same setting. TurfWise puts the dry and wet lines 5 points either side unless you've already set them; change those on Soil Moisture.
How does it judge a fungicide?
It compares what you saw on the area before the spray with what you see 5 to 16 days after. The readings job asks for scouting on day 7 and day 14.
It also looks at the modelled disease pressure over those days, because the weather matters:
- Disease eased while pressure stayed high — the spray gets the credit.
- Disease eased but pressure eased too — it can't take all the credit, so the answer stops at Possibly.
- An area stayed clear under high pressure after a preventive spray — that counts.
- An area stayed clear but pressure stayed low — the spray wasn't really tested, so it's Can't tell yet.
Log sightings against the area
A sighting needs an area to count. When scouting is due, Today's readings has the area ready: press All clear, or Seen something and pick the disease and how bad. You can also use Log observation at the top of the page — pick the green. An all clear is just as useful as a sighting.
How does it judge aeration and top dressing?
It asks one question: did the green recover on time? It compares the stimp and quality score (with smoothness and trueness when you score them) from the week before the work with readings near the end of the recovery window. Only greens are checked.
The windows are TurfWise's recovery guide, set by the month the work was done:
| Work | Recovery window | | --- | --- | | Top dressing | Worked in within 5–7 days | | Aeration, June to August | 7–10 days (summer) | | Aeration, March to May | 10–14+ days (spring) | | Aeration, September to November | 10–14+ days (autumn) | | Aeration, December to February | 14+ days (winter) |
- Back within a notch of where it was (0.2 ft of stimp, half a point of score) — recovered on time (or worked in on time for top dressing).
- Still down at the end of the window — slow to recover. In winter it's still recovering, never slow, because 14+ days is normal.
- Some measures back and some still down — partly recovered, and it names what's still down.
- Rain and growth since the work are shown beside the answer, but they don't move the window.
The readings job asks for a stimp and score a day before the window ends (day 6 for top dressing). A job counts as aeration from its activity or its title (hollow tine, solid tine, verti-drain, Procore, slitting, spiking); drag-in, brush-in and blowing off sand don't.
Measure before the work
Without a stimp and score in the week before, aeration and top dressing can't be judged, and neither can a spray. When a spray, aeration or top dressing is on the board for today or tomorrow and nothing's been measured that week, Measuring (on Today and the phone) asks for a stimp and score first.
What do the answers mean?
Each check gets one of four answers: Likely worked, Possibly worked, No clear effect or Can't tell yet. It's the same rule Treatment vs Response uses for sprays.
Likely needs enough readings, nothing else changing (rain of 1 mm or more counts as a change) and a known normal for your course. Without those, the best it will say is Possibly.
Tap a row to see the readings before and after, what a normal night does, and the reasons behind the answer. How we judge on the top card explains the rule in one picture.
Can I enter readings on this page?
Yes. Today's readings lists the probe rounds and scouting due today. Type up to three probe readings and press Save, or use Probe another area for any area — Log probe readings in the bar takes you there.
Readings go into the same place as the phone and the Soil Moisture page, so a reading logged in any of the three shows in all of them. The phone records where each reading was taken. A reading typed in the office is placed on the area: your device's location if your browser already shares it, otherwise the middle of the area's outline, or the course location.
How do I get more jobs judged?
A job can only be judged if someone measures afterwards. Measuring on this page shows how much your team measured this week (probe readings, stimp, clippings, a quality score and a disease check) and what share of your jobs could be judged. Aim for 60%.
Pick three indicator greens
Under Measuring, pick one wet green, one dry green and one typical one. Routine readings are taken on these, so you aren't measuring all of them.
Add the weekly round to the Planner
Switch on Weekly round in the Planner and pick a day. "Course measurements" becomes a routine job on that day in the Weekly Planner, about five minutes a green, and goes on the board when you send the week. It's also a sign-off in the standard training manual.
Answer the question when a job's done
On the phone, finishing a job asks one thing: boxes emptied after cutting greens, tonnes of sand after top dressing, stimp after rolling.
On the phone, Take a reading (in Capture, on an area's page and on Today) saves stimp, clippings, a score, scouting or an all clear, firmness, soil temperature and height of cut. You can also say "stimp nine and a half on the 7th green". After each reading the phone tells you what it shows, such as "9.8 ft — 0.4 ft slower than Tuesday".
Monthly report on the top card puts the month's results on one page for your committee: what worked, what was measured and the top dressing so far. Print it or save it as a PDF.
What is a reading worth?
On Premium, Measuring puts a price on readings. When a spray has a stimp, score or clipping count from the week before it, and its after-window is open, a reading now is what turns it into an answer. TurfWise adds up what those sprays cost and shows it: "£1,490 of sprays waiting for a reading". The phone and Today list the reading that's due, and when you save it the phone says what it was worth, such as "That reading helps judge £340 of Primo Maxx II."
It also shows what was sprayed with nothing measured beforehand. Those sprays can never be judged, so take a stimp and a score in the week before you spray. Over the last 30 days it splits the money into sprays that had readings before and after and sprays that didn't. The windows and product types are the same as Treatment vs Response, so the two pages always agree. A spray only shows a price when its cost is filled in on the spray record.
Weeks running
Measuring counts the weeks in a row your team has taken a stimp, and remembers your best run. After four weeks running, the green speed card on your members' page shows Measured every week, so members can see the figure is measured, not guessed.
What is the readings job?
When a check needs a reading, TurfWise adds one readings job to that day's board — never more than one a day. It lists each area with what to do: a probe round where you watered yesterday, scouting where you sprayed a week or two ago, a stimp and score where a green is near the end of its recovery window. It has no one on it, so give it to someone on the day's board.
On the phone, opening the readings job (or the weekly Course measurements job) shows Take the readings: each reading still due, with that job's green first. Tap one and it opens the right screen — the probe sheet for moisture, or the stimp, score or scouting sheet.
Turning it off
Managers can switch Readings jobs off under Set-up. Checks then wait for readings you take yourself.
The figures it uses
A rise of 2 points counts for a watering. Rain of 1 mm or more counts as something else changing. The readings job allows five minutes per area. If you haven't set dry and wet lines on Soil Moisture, they go 5 points outside your band.