Systems and methods for use in applying treatments to crops in fields

A system for use in applying a treatment to crops in one or more fields, the system comprising at least one computing device configured to:

• receive a request to recommend an application of a treatment for a field, the field including a crop, which is associated with a planting day indicative of the day the crop was planted, the request including a field identifier (ID) for the field;
• access a data structure based on the field ID, the data structure including a planting date of the crop in the field and weather data for the field, the weather data defining time series weather data for an interval;
• determine a growth stage vector indicative of a growth stage of the crop during each increment of the interval, using a gated recurrent unit (GRU)-based phenology model, based on the planting date and weather data included in the data structure;
• determine at least one disease risk for the crop in the field, based on at least one disease risk model and the growth stage vector, the at least one disease risk indicative of an occurrence and/or a severity of at least one disease;
• determine a residual protection of the field for at least one prior treatment of the field;
• determine whether application of the treatment is recommended for the field based on the at least on disease risk and the determined residual protection;
• in response to determining that application of the treatment is recommended, identify multiple application intervals for the treatment based on the weather data for the multiple application intervals;
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• report a recommendation to apply the treatment to the field and the application intervals, in response to the request to recommend the application of the treatment.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including executable instructions for use in identifying treatments for application to crops in one or more fields, which when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

• receive a request to recommend an application of a treatment for a field, the field including a crop, which is associated with a planting day indicative of the day the crop was planted, the request including a field identifier (ID) for the field;
• access a data structure based on the field ID, the data structure including a planting date of the crop in the field and weather data for the field, the weather data defining time series weather data for an interval;
• determine a growth stage vector indicative of a growth stage of the crop during each increment of the interval, using a gated recurrent unit (GRU)-based phenology model, based on the planting date and weather data included in the data structure;
• determine at least one disease risk for the crop in the field, based on at least one disease risk model and the growth stage vector, the at least one disease risk indicative of an occurrence and/or a severity of at least one disease;
• determine a residual protection of the field for at least one prior treatment of the field;
• determine whether application of the treatment is recommended for the field based on the at least on disease risk and the determined residual protection;
• in response to a determination that application of the treatment is recommended, identify multiple application intervals for the treatment based on the weather data for the multiple application intervals;
• and
• report a recommendation to apply the treatment to the field and the application intervals, in response to the request to recommend the application of the treatment.