McCown, R.L., Carberry, P.S., Dalgliesh, N.P., Foale, M.A., Hochman, Z. (2012) Farmers use intuition to reinvent analytic decision support for managing seasonal climatic variability. Agricultural Systems 106, 33-45 PDF
McCown, R.L. (2012) A cognitive systems framework to inform delivery of analytic support for farmers’ intuitive management of seasonal climatic variability. Agricultural Systems 105, 7–20 PDF
McCown, R.L; Carberry, .P.S.; Hochman, Z., Dalgliesh N.P., Foale, M.A. (2009) Re-inventing model-based decision support with Australian dryland farmers 1. Changing intervention concepts during 15 years of action research. Crop and Pasture Science 60, 1017–1030. PDF
Dalgliesh, N.P.; M.A. Foale, McCown R.L. (2009) Re-inventing model-based decision support with Australian dryland farmers: 2. Pragmatic provision of soil information for paddock-specific simulation and farmer decision making. Crop and Pasture Science 60, 1031–1043. PDF
Carberry, P.S.; Hochman, Z., Hunt, J.R.. Dalgliesh N.P., McCown, R.L., Whish J.P.M., Robertson, M.J., Foale, M.A., Poulton, P.L., van Rees, H. (2009) Re-inventing model-based decision support with Australian dryland farmers: 3. Relevance of APSIM to commercial crops. Crop and Pasture Science 60, 1044–1056. PDF
Hochman, Z., van Rees, H., Carberry, P.S., Hunt, J.R., McCown, R.L., Gartmann, A., Holzworth, D., van Rees, S., Dalgliesh, N.P., Long, W., Peake, A.S., Poulton, P.L. (2009) Re-inventing model-based decision support with Australian dryland farmers. 4. Yield Prophet® helps farmers monitor and manage crops in a variable climate 60, 1057–1070. PDF
McCown, R. L. Z. Hochman and P. S. Carberry. (2005). In Search of Effective Simulation-Based Intervention in Farm Management. MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Melbourne, Dec 2005. Published on CD.
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Hochman, Z, Coutts, J.A., Carberry, P.S., McCown, R.L. (2000) The FARMSCAPE experience: Simulations aid participative learning in risky farming systems in Australia. In: Cow up a Tree: Learning and Knowing Processes for Change in Agriculture. Case Studies from industrialised countries. M Cerf, D Gibbon, B Hubert, R Ison, J Jiggins, MS Paine, J Proost, N Roling (Eds), INRA Editions, Versailles Cedex, France, 2000, pp. 175-188. PDF
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McCown, R.L., Carberry, P.S., Foale, M.A., Hochman, Z., Coutts, J.A. and Dalgliesh, N.P. (1998) The FARMSCAPE approach to farming systems research. In: Agronomy – Growing Greener Future: Proceedings of the 9th Australian Society of Agronomy Conference, Wagga Wagga, NSW, 20-23 July 1998. (Eds D.L. Michalk and J.E. Pratley), pp.633-36. (Australian Society of Agronomy: Wagga Wagga, NSW) PDF
Foale, M.A., Carberry, P.S., McCown, R.L., Probert, M.E., Dimes, J.P., Dalgliesh, N.P. and Lack, D. (1996) Farmers, advisers and researchers learning together better management of crops and croplands. In: Proceedings of the 8th Australian Agronomy Conference, Toowoomba, Queensland, January-February, 1996. (Ed. M. Asghar), pp.258-61. (Australian Society of Agronomy: Carlton, Vic.) PDF
McCown, R.L. and Foale, M.A. (1995) Pilot study using on-farm collaborative R&D networks to improve cropland management. Grain Research and Development Council Project No. CSC10. 10p. PDF
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