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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The CCAFS Regional Agricultural Forecasting Toolbox (CRAFT) is a software platform designed for yield forecasting at 5 or 30 arc-minutes spatial resolutions using an ensemble modeling approach. Twenty-three important food and feed crops have been implemented using the DSSAT Cropping System Model as the main crop model engine.
CRAFT is an initiative of CCAFS and was developed in partnership with the University of Florida. It has been successfully applied to forecast the in-season yield of wheat and rice cropping systems in Nepal and Bangladesh. It has also been evaluated for yield forecasting and climate change applications in West Africa in collaboration with the WASCAL Project, Agrhymet, and the CASCAID Project of ICRISAT.
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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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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