It was great catching up with you, fellow crop modelers at the Open Forum! Here is the meeting note for those of you who couldn’t join us. Hope to see you all again at the next forum in 2015!
07
Nov
20
Oct
Guess how many DSSAT users are in the world: 5,000 (and counting)!
On October 19th, 2014, the total number of unique (since some users requested multiple times) DSSAT v4.5 download requests surpassed 5,000 – another new big milestone showing the worldwide interest in DSSAT and its strong community! Cumulative number of download requests by quarter shows almost linear, continuous increase of DSSAT users since its public release […]
02
Sep
DSSAT Foundation Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems 2014
The DSSAT Foundation will be sponsoring the annual Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems during this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA 2014 Annual Meetings. The forum is an informal discussion about crop modeling and decision support systems and open to anyone.
25
May
Noticed something new? We’ve got a new logo!
Yes, we’ve got a new logo! As we approaches a new milestone of DSSAT v4.6, we ran a logo design contest at 99designs.com, a crowd-sourcing platform targeted for designing projects. For about two weeks of contest period in April 2014, total of 54 designers worldwide submitted 195 designs. After several rounds of internal review among […]
25
May
DSSAT Training Workshop 2014 at the University of Georgia
The largest crop modeling training workshop of the year – the 2014 DSSAT Training Workshop was successfully held at the University of Georgia’s Griffin Campus during the week of May 19th. Total of 57 participants, representing 22 countries, attended the 6-day workshop to learn from the science and background of various components of the cropping systems modeling to […]
07
Apr
DSSAT Training 2014 for Agricultural Economists
Organized by AGRODEP, IFPRI, and DSSAT Foundation, a DSSAT Training Workshop was held in Dakar, Senegal, in April 2014. Thirteen AGRODEP members from seven countries were trained to learn the background and science of crop system modeling, preparing the model input data and understanding model outputs, and the operation of DSSAT v4.6 and its applications.
28
Mar
European Society for Agronomy Congress 2014: 25-29 August in Debrecen, Hungary
European Society for Agronomy organizes the 8th ESA Congress – hosted by the Centre for Agricultural and Applied Economic Sciences of the University of Debrecen, Hungary between 25-28 August 2014. Jon Lizaso, Professor at the Technical University of Madrid (and one of the core DSSAT Development Team), will give a keynote speech “IMPROVING CROP MODELS: […]
27
Mar
“Climate Change and African Agricultre” – Three regional studies from IFPRI
In December 2013, IFPRI published a series of three books presenting climate change impact assessment studies for three regions of Africa: East, Southern, and West Africa. Each study used DSSAT to assess the potential impacts of climate change scenarios on crop growth and yields, which were used as an input to the IMPACT global food […]
27
Mar
DSSAT Development Sprint Workshop 2014
As the new version of DSSAT is getting ready for the public release, the core DSSAT development group gathered together at IFDC HQ in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for a week-long Development Sprint workshop.
20
Feb
DSSAT Training Workshop 2014 in Thailand
DSSAT Workshop in Thailand has been successfully held at the Chiang Mai University. Total of 19 participants representing 11 countries attended the workshop. The international participants were fully sponsored by the Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency (TICA).
