The Department of Agronomy at the UCO improves, together with the IAS - CSIC, the AquaCrop model by introducing the option ofsimulatingalfalfa yield with precision AquaCrop is the crop growth ...

A team has revamped the popular crop growth simulation software BioCro, making it a more user-friendly and efficient way to predict crop yield. The updated version, BioCro II, allows modelers to use ...

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 ...

Soilless growing systems inside greenhouses, known as controlled environment agriculture, promise to advance the year-round ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University research team has demonstrated how to optimize yield in corn fields equipped with solar power arrays that throughout the day cast dynamic shadows across ...

The Earth is heating up. The effects of human-caused global climate change are becoming more and more apparent as we see more record-breaking heat waves, intense droughts, shifts in rainfall patterns ...