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DSSAT Surpasses 40,000 Downloads Worldwide

The DSSAT community has reached an important milestone: more than 40,000 downloads worldwide.

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AgMIP11 – Food System Solutions for a Fragile Planet

ILRI, Nairobi, Kenia| February 22-26, 2027

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25th DSSAT Development Sprint

Hybrid Meeting, IFDC, Muscle Shoals | Aug 10-14, 2026

DSSAT International Training 2026

May 18-23, 2026. University of Georgia, Griffin.

DSSAT 2026 European Training Program

DSSAT 2026 European Training Program

September 7-12, 2026

Technical University Munich, Germany

24th DSSAT Development Sprint

Hybrid Meeting, UF, Gainesville | January 5-9, 2026

20th AMEI Development Sprint

Advancing collaboration and interoperability in crop modeling, the DSSAT team hosted the 20th AMEI Development Sprint from January 20–23, 2026, at the Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering (ABE, UF/IFAS) in Gainesville, Florida.

 

23rd DSSAT Development Sprint

Hybrid Meeting, UK, Lexington | August 4-8, 2025

DSSAT International Training 2025

May 19-24, 2025. University of Georgia, Griffin.

22nd DSSAT Development Sprint

Hybrid Meeting, UF, Gainesville | January 6-10, 2025

CRAFT: A New Spatial Yield Forecasting Tool

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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Enhancing crop model parameter estimation using the GLUE method and parallel computing

Introducing a new parallel computing system for calibrating genetic parameters within the crop modules of the Cropping System Model (CSM) of DSSAT The Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation Parallelized (GLUEP)

Crop Modeling and Climate Change Postgraduate Course

Training the Next Generation of Crop Modelers for Crop Model Development and Improvement |

March 10-15, 2024

 

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 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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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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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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