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20th DSSAT Development Sprint

Hybrid Meeting, University of Florida, Gainesville | January 8-12, 2024

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. Click here to see more!

Special DSSAT Sessions during the 2023

Special DSSAT Oral and Poster Sessions during the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America-Soil Science Society of America

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.

19th DSSAT Development Sprint

Hybrid Meeting, IFDC, Muscle Shoals | July 24-28, 2023

DSSAT 2023

May 15-20, 2023. University of Georgia, Griffin.

18th DSSAT Development Sprint

Hybrid Meeting, University of Florida, Gainesville | January 17-20, 2023

DSSAT 2023 in Thailand

January 9-14, 2023. Century Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand.

Improvement and Application of Agroecosystem Models: The DSSAT experience

Presented by Gerrit Hoogenboom during the Symposium – “Improvement and Application of Crop Growth and Agroecosystem Models for Knowledge Advancement and Sustainable Development” as part of the 2021 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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The DSSAT crop modeling ecosystem

The DSSAT crop modeling ecosystem is one of the oldest and most widely used crop modeling platforms across the world. The success of DSSAT is based on the inclusiveness and participatory approach that has been used since the original development of the CERES and CROPGRO family of models and the emphasis on sharing data and model code. DSSAT is not just a software program, but an ecosystem of:

• Crop model users;
• Crop model trainers;
• Crop model developers;
• Models for the most important food, feed, fiber, and fuel crops;
• Tools and utilities for data preparation;
• Minimum data for model calibration and evaluation; and
• Application programs for assessing real-world problems.

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Advances in crop modelling for a sustainable agriculture

This collection summarises key advances in crop modelling, with a focus on developing the next generation of crop and whole-farm models to improve decision making and support for farmers.
Chapters in Part 1 review advances in modelling individual components of agricultural systems, such as plant responses to environmental conditions, crop growth stage prediction, nutrient and water cycling as well as pest/disease dynamics. Building on topics previously discussed in Part 1, Part 2 addresses the challenges of combining modular sub-systems into whole farm system, landscape and regional models. Chapters cover topics such as integration of rotations and livestock, as well as landscape models such as agroecological zone (AEZ) models. Chapters also review the performance of specific models such as APSIM and DSSAT and the challenges of developing decision support systems (DSS) linked with such models. The final part of the book reviews wider issues in improving model reliability such as data sharing and the supply of real-time data, as well as crop model inter-comparison.

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CRAFT: A New Spatial Yield Forecasting Tool

The CCAFS Regional Agricultural Forecasting Toolbox (CRAFT) is a software platform designed for yield forecasting at spatial resolutions of either 5 or 30 arc-minutes using an ensemble modeling approach. Currently the DSSAT, APSIM, and SARRA-H crop simulation models have been implemented for nine important food and feed crops using the AgMIP IT tools. CRAFT was an initiative of CCAFS and was developed in partnership with the Asia Risk Center, Washington State University, and the University of Florida.

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ICASA Data Standards Version 2.0

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Researchers increasingly seek to integrate results from multiple experiments. The ICASA V2.0 standards allow flexible description of field experiments. Major categories of data are management, soil, weather and crop responses. The standards may be implemented in diverse digital formats. Planned improvements emphasize data quality and appropriate usage.

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Improving Soil Fertility Recommendations in Africa

The new book gives a detailed description of the application of DSSAT in simulating crop and soil processes within various Agro-ecological zones in Africa. The book provides examples of the application of DSSAT models to simulate nitrogen applications, soil and water conservation practices including effects of zai technology, phosphorus and maize productivity, generation of genetic coefficients, long-term soil fertility management technologies in the drylands, microdosing, optimization of nitrogen x germplasms x water, spatial analysis of water and nutrient use efficiencies and, tradeoff analysis.

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29
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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29
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 […]

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28
Jul

19th Hybrid DSSAT Development Sprint, July 24-28, 2023

During last week of July the 19th “Hybrid” DSSAT Development Sprint was held, hosted by Dr. Upendra Singh and Dr. Willingthon Pavan at the International Fertilizer Development Center in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In-person participants included six representatives from the University of Florida and three representatives from IFDC, while there were around 18 on-line participants from […]

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01
Jul

Development and Evolution of the DSSAT Cropping System Model for Local to Global Applications

On Thursday, February 16, 2023, Professor Dr. Jim Jones and Professor Dr. Gerrit Hoogenboom gave a presentation entitled “Development and Evolution of the DSSAT Cropping System Model for Local to Global Applications. The seminar was part of the Centennial – 100 years Celebration of the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of […]

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19
May

DSSAT 2023 International Training Program at the University of Georgia

DSSAT Foundation – The University of Georgia – Griffin Campus, Griffin, Georgia USA Scientists from across the world met from May 15-20, 2023 on the University of Georgia Griffin Campus to learn about the latest version of the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) computer software program. The DSSAT crop modeling ecosystem helps researchers […]

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29
Apr

Special DSSAT Oral and Poster Sessions during the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America-Soil Science Society of America

The University of Florida and the DSSAT Foundation are sponsoring two special DSSAT sessions during the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America-Soil Science Society of America. The 2023 Annual Meeting is scheduled from October 29 through November 1, 2023 and will be held in St. Louis, MO. The […]

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15
Apr

[Q] How do you run DSSAT on Linux/Mac OS?

Unfortunately, for Linux/MacOS users, there is no installation for these platforms yet. Most of the tools we use in DSSAT were developed for Windows platform. In this case, you need to install a Virtual Machine in order to run Windows platform. If you are using a MacOS M1/M2 computer chip, please follow the second approach […]

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