During the week of February 19-23, 2024, the DSSAT Team from the University of Florida (UF) participated in the 14th AMEI Development Sprint hosted by the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) located in Müncheberg, Germany. This 14th AMEI Development Sprint was a continuation of the 13th AMEI Development Sprint that was hosted at the […]
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Jan
20th Hybrid DSSAT Development Sprint, January 8-12, 2024
During the week of January 8-12, 2024, the 20th DSSAT Development Sprint was held in a “Hybrid” format. The DSSAT Development Sprint was hosted by Global Food Systems Institute & Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering of the University of Florida. In-person participants included one representatives from the University of Kentucky, seventeen representatives from the […]
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Dec
Remembering Peter Jones, Pioneer in Understanding Crop Adaptation
Peter Jones, a pioneer in using computers to understand crop adaptation, passed away in Wales on October 8, 2023. The DSSAT community may recognize Peter as the developer of the widely used MarkSim weather generator, which can generate series of daily data both for current weather and for climate change scenarios of future weather. A […]
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Dec
13th AMEI Development Sprint
From November 27 to December 1, 2023, the DSSAT Team hosted the13th AMEI Development Sprint in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (UF/IFAS) in Gainesville, Florida. This meeting was held in collaboration with the Laboratory of Ecophysiology of Plants under Environmental Stress (LEPSE) of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and the […]
01
Nov
Special DSSAT Oral and Poster Sessions at the 2023 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America (ASA-CSSA-SSSA) is the grand confluence of scientists, professionals, and organizations focused on agronomy, crop science, and soil science. The 2023 Annual Meeting was held from October 29 through November 1, 2023 in St. Louis, MO […]
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Oct
New DSSAT Foundation YouTube Channel
The DSSAT Foundation now has a YouTube channel to assist the user community with informative videos about the download system, installation procedures and how to manage the DSSAT tools and application programs. To access the YouTube Channel please click the link below. Do not forget to hit the subscribe button, leave your like and comments […]
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Oct
Bilateral Project Between Ankara University and the University of Florida on Capacity Building
Ankara University, in collaboration with the University of Florida, developed a project entitled “Capacity Building on the Dissemination of the Use of Agro-technological Decision Support Systems in Agriculture.” The project has been funded by the US Embassy in Türkiye under the auspices of a US-Türkiye bilateral Program. The project team includes seven scientists from Ankara […]
02
Oct
12th AMEI Development Sprint
During the week of September 25-29, 2023, the DSSAT Team the from University of Florida (UF/IFAS) participated in the AMEI Development Sprint in Montpellier, France, hosted by the Laboratory of Ecophysiology of Plants under Environmental Stress (LEPSE) of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (INRAE). The vision of Agricultural Model […]
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Sep
Global Expert Agrees to Edit New Volume on Current Crop Model
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is delighted to announce that Professor Gerrit Hoogenboom has agreed to edit our forthcoming collection: Current crop models: State-of-the-art and future developments. Dr Hoogenboom is Professor and Preeminent Scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida, USA. With over 30 years’ experience and over 500 […]
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Sep
26th Annual Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems
The DSSAT Foundation will be sponsoring the 26th Annual Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems during this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA 2023 International Annual Meeting. The forum is scheduled for Monday night, October 30, 2023, from 7:30 – 9:00 pm in Room 100 of America’s Center Convention Complex. The forum is an informal discussion about crop modeling and decision support […]
