Smart connected farms and networked farmers to improve crop production, sustainability and profitability

AK Singh, BJ Balabaygloo, B Bekee, SW Blair… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
To meet the grand challenges of agricultural production including climate change impacts
on crop production, a tight integration of social science, technology and agriculture experts …

Farmers employ diverse cover crop management strategies to meet soil health goals

M Bowman, K Poley… - … & Environmental Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cover crops (CCs) were used on only∼ 5% of harvested cropland in the United States in
2017. Lack of information about effective CC management and the costs and benefits of CCs …

Batch Bayesian optimization for replicable experimental design

Z Dai, QP Nguyen, S Tay, D Urano… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Many real-world experimental design problems (a) evaluate multiple experimental
conditions in parallel and (b) replicate each condition multiple times due to large and …

Successful approaches for on-farm experimentation

SE Roques, DR Kindred, P Berry, J Helliwell - Field Crops Research, 2022 - Elsevier
On-farm experiments are used increasingly in agronomic research because they are
commercially relevant, but they can carry greater risks of failure than traditional small plot …

Application of a Bayesian approach to quantify the impact of nitrogen fertilizer on upland rice yield in sub-Saharan Africa

H Asai, K Saito, K Kawamura - Field Crops Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Mineral fertilizer input is indispensable to offset yield stagnation in rainfed upland rice
production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The present study is the first attempt to perform a …

Relationships of on‐farm soil health scores with corn and soybean yield in the midwestern United States

B Crookston, M Yost, M Bowman… - Soil Science Society of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil health assessments are interpretive frameworks that estimate a soil's health by scoring
various soil biological, chemical, and physical attributes to guide soil and crop management …

An introduction to precision agriculture

D Kent Shannon, DE Clay… - Precision agriculture …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Precision agriculture is a technology that can be used to improve profitability while reducing
the impact of agriculture on the environment. The goal of this chapter is to summarize topics …

The economic performances of different trial designs in on-farm precision experimentation: a Monte Carlo evaluation

X Li, T Mieno, DS Bullock - Precision Agriculture, 2023 - Springer
On-farm precision experimentation (OFPE) has expanded rapidly over the past few years.
While the importance of OFPE trial design efficiency has been recognized, existing studies …

A framework for visualization and analysis of agronomic field trials from on‐farm research networks

A Laurent, P Kyveryga, D Makowski… - Agronomy Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
An on‐farm research network is an organization of farmers that conducts agronomic
experiments under local conditions. It is common that an elementary statistical analysis be …

Bird damage to sunflower: International situation and prospects

C Sausse, M Lévy - OCL, 2021 - ocl-journal.org
Bird damage to sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) degrades the profitability of this crop and
calls into question its place in rotations. Our international literature review shows that …