Crop modeling is essential for understanding how to secure the food supply as the planet adapts to climate change. Many current crop models focus on simulating crop growth and yield at the field scale ...

The method, which uses synthetic datasets and transfer learning to overcome data scarcity and variability, significantly outperformed conventional techniques in multi-year field trials. Leaf area ...

Iowa State University and FluroSat, a leader in agronomic decision support and remote field sensing, have announced their collaboration through a research project to advance predictability of nitrogen ...

The map below was created a few days after spring termination of the cover crop. Treatments consisted of several different cover crop mixtures, as well as no cover. The field was then planted to corn ...

Sorghum plants from the Sorghum Association Panel growing in an Iowa State University research field near Ames in 2021. Photo by Jianming Yu/Iowa State University. A team led by an Iowa State ...

of various growth stages (left). It can then, based on a single initial photo of another field, model how the crop will develop (center; the images show how the variation of certain crop parameters ...

AMES, Iowa – A gardener hoping for a crop of the juiciest summer tomatoes might tend to each and every plant in a plot. But a farmer working to feed the world? Researchers believe that may be possible ...

A computer modeling study shows how the emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide have increased from soils over the last century. The newly published research found the expansion of land devoted ...

SiFly Aviation, Inc., a U.S.-based manufacturer of long-endurance autonomous VTOL drones, and Taranis, a U.S.-based leader in AI-powered, leaf-level crop intelligence, today announced the launch of a ...