Dear Robin and others :
 
The current DSSAT v3.0 or DSSAT v3.5 do not allow you to specify the end of
simulation option.  In your case it might be much better to set your case up
as a crop rotation or sequence. For the first part of the rotation you would
specify the crop and possibly harvest date, you then let the "fallow model"
pick up after harvest to look at changes in soil water and nitrogen.
 
Gerrit
 
 
At 10:15 AM 9/21/98 GMT, Robin Matthews wrote:
>Dear DSSATers
>
>Does anyone know if there is any way in the X-file of specifying the end
date of the simulation other than at the crop harvest and without going through
>another whole year. What I want to do is to make the model run on past the
harvest date for a period of time to look at changes in soil characteristics.
>
>Robin Matthews
>P.S. I am still using DSSAT v3.1 and am not aware of any enhancements in
the newly released version.
>
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