To assist corn producers and the agricultural industry with meeting consumer demand for this sweet, nutritious vegetable, researchers have developed a new tool, or "simulation model" that has the ...

Agricultural field experiments are costly and time-consuming, and often struggling to capture spatial and temporal variability. Mechanistic crop growth models offer a solution to understand intricate ...

Intensive tillage practices have led to reduction in SOC and degradation of soil physical properties. Therefore, conservation agriculture (CA) is an emerging resource saving technology. It is the most ...

As Corn Belt states seek ways to curb nitrogen flow from farms into the Gulf of Mexico, new University of Illinois research adds evidence for winter cover crops as an important part of the solution. A ...

In regions with limited water resources, maximizing crop water productivity is important for producing high yields. A new computer model, AquaCrop, was developed as a way to predict crop water use ...

Crop models are parameterization schemes that simulate the processes of crop development and production. Their inclusion in climate models can promote the simulation ability of climate models, ...

Home Regional Training Course on ‘The Use of Advanced Nuclear and Related Tools for Agricultural Water Management and Advance Use of Crop Simulation Model (AquaCrop)’ ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Now, farmers will get periodic SMSes about water and nutrient content in soil, facilitating timely intervention to address challenges, thanks to a scientist from Kerala. Electronic ...