It is a common practice to grow winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) as a dual-purpose crop in the U.S. Southern Great Plains to decrease production risk and to increase profit margin through cattle (Bos taurus) production. Crop management of the dual-purpose wheat is complex because of the tradeoffs between beef production and wheat grain yield. A wheat grazing model helps in making optimal dec...

Cropping systems models have evolved over the last four decades in response to the demand for modeling to address more complex questions, including issues on sustainable production, climate change, and environmental impacts. Early models, which were used primarily for yield gap analysis, have increased in complexity to include not only nutrient and water deficiencies, but also pest and disease ...

J. Kihara et al. (eds.), Improving Soil Fertility Recommendations in Africa using the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT), DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2960-5_3, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012 Abstract Africa is the continent with the lowest fertilizer use per hectare notwithstanding the fact it possesses geologically old, infertile and degraded soils. This c...

Insurance agents often provide crop hail damage estimates based on their personal experience and field samples, which are not always representative of the investigated field’s spatial variability. For these reasons, farmers insurance market ask for a reliable, objective, less labor-intensive method to determine losses. Integrating remote sensing modeling provides unique opportunity estimate dam...

The field experiment was conducted at the Farm of College Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Godhra, Gujarat during year 2018-19 2019-20 to simulate phenology yield rabi maize (Zea mays L.) in sandy loam soil central Gujarat. design split plot with 36 treatment combinations 3 replications including three irrigation regimes (1.0IW/CPE, 0.8IW/CPE 0.6IW/CPE), four mulch conditions (control, ...