A Method for the Assessment of the Risk of Wheat Lodging

A model of the wheat canopy/root/soil system has been developed, which calculates the risk of stem and root lodging from crop parameters and soil characteristics. For a large number of wind speed and rainfall realisations the model determines whether or not stem lodging will occur by comparing the wind induced bending moment at the base of an individual shoot with the stem base failure moment. Similarly, whether or not root lodging will occur is...