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
• 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.
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 ToolThe 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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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.
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.
The next edition of the International Crop Modelling Symposium (iCROPM2026) will be held in Florence, Italy, from February 2 to 4, 2026. Six years after the last symposium in Montpellier, France (iCROPM2020), international experts, researchers, agronomists, and policymakers will meet again to discuss the latest innovations and identify new challenges and opportunities in crop modelling […]
We recently published a manuscript entitled “Enhancing crop model parameter estimation across computing environments: Utilizing the GLUE method and parallel computing for determining genetic coefficients” in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. The study describes improvements in the Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) program, introducing a new parallel computing system for calibrating genetic parameters within the crop […]
The DSSAT Foundation will be sponsoring the 27th Annual Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems during this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA 2024 International Annual Meeting. The forum is scheduled for Monday night, November 11, 2024, from 7:30 – 9:00 pm in Room La Reina on the second floor of the Hilton Palacio del Rio Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. The forum […]
Between September 9-13, 2024, the DSSAT team from the University of Florida (UF) participated in the 15th 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 Agricultural Model Exchange Initiative (AMEI; see […]
During the second week of June, the 21st “Hybrid” DSSAT Development Sprint was held, hosted by Dr. Upendra Singh at the International Fertilizer Development Center in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In-person participants included representatives from the University of Florida, IFDC, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, while there were numerous online participants from various countries, […]
The Center of Regional Climate Change and Renewable Energy (RU-CORE) at Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand, in collaboration with Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand and the DSSAT Foundation, is planning to organize a DSSAT International Training Program from August 5 – 10, 2024 in Bangkok. The overall goal of the workshop is to familiarize the […]
The book entitled “Cropping Systems Modeling under Changing Climate” aims at bringing out comprehensive information on cropping systems modelling in the world. The major focus of the book is to address the integration of soil, plant, and environmental interactions for climate smart agriculture. The book covers aspects of the application of Decision Support System for […]
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