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View article: Can gridded real‐time weather data match direct ground observations for irrigation decision‐support?
Can gridded real‐time weather data match direct ground observations for irrigation decision‐support? Open
Agricultural decision‐support systems are commonplace in extension and outreach. These systems typically rely on either historical or direct ground observations to make grower recommendations. Sensor data create many challenges for applica…
View article: A tool for integrating agrometeorological observation data for digital agriculture: A Minnesota case study
A tool for integrating agrometeorological observation data for digital agriculture: A Minnesota case study Open
Agrometeorological data are essential for understanding production using digital agriculture techniques. However, integrating agrometerological observations from multiple sources remains a challenge. Often, digital agriculture scientists d…
View article: Cultivating connections: Framing turfgrass as a thriving social–ecological–technological system
Cultivating connections: Framing turfgrass as a thriving social–ecological–technological system Open
Turfgrass systems are some of the most ubiquitous forms of perennial agricultural systems. People interact with them on a daily basis, and they provide a wide variety of social and environmental benefits. Over the past two decades, turfgra…
View article: RGB‐based indices for estimating cover crop biomass, nitrogen content, and carbon:nitrogen ratio
RGB‐based indices for estimating cover crop biomass, nitrogen content, and carbon:nitrogen ratio Open
Plant cover and biochemical composition are essential parameters for evaluating cover crop management. Destructive sampling or estimates with aerial imagery require substantial labor, time, expertise, or instrumentation cost. Using low‐cos…
View article: A Hardened CO$_2$ Sensor for In-Ground Continuous Measurement in a Perennial Grass System
A Hardened CO$_2$ Sensor for In-Ground Continuous Measurement in a Perennial Grass System Open
Carbon dioxide levels below the soil surface are an important measurement relating to plant health, especially for plants such as perennial grasses in northern climates where ice encasement can occur over winter. In such cases, the CO$_2$ …
View article: Climate resilience conserved in global germplasm repositories: Picking the most promising parents for agile plant breeding
Climate resilience conserved in global germplasm repositories: Picking the most promising parents for agile plant breeding Open
Crop diversity is an essential resource for national and international breeding programs aimed at preparing global agriculture for a changing climate to ensure global food security. To do this there are related risks that need to be evalua…
View article: Real-time Geoinformation Systems to Improve the Quality, Scalability, and Cost of Internet of Things for Agri-environment Research
Real-time Geoinformation Systems to Improve the Quality, Scalability, and Cost of Internet of Things for Agri-environment Research Open
With the increasing emphasis on machine learning and artificial intelligence to drive knowledge discovery in the agricultural sciences, spatial internet of things (IoT) technologies have become increasingly important for collecting real-ti…
View article: Estimates of woody biomass and mixed effects improve isoscape predictions across a northern mixed forest
Estimates of woody biomass and mixed effects improve isoscape predictions across a northern mixed forest Open
Contemporary methods used to predict isotopic variation at regional scales have yet to include underlying distributions of the abundance of isotopic substrates. Additionally, traditional kriging methods fail to account for the potential in…
View article: Adapting perennial grain and oilseed crops for climate resiliency
Adapting perennial grain and oilseed crops for climate resiliency Open
Climate change is threatening the status quo of agricultural production globally. Perennial cropping systems could be a useful strategy to adapt agriculture to a changing climate. Current and future perennial row crop systems have many and…
View article: State spaces for agriculture: A meta-systematic design automation framework
State spaces for agriculture: A meta-systematic design automation framework Open
Agriculture is a designed system with the largest areal footprint of any human activity. In some cases, the designs within agriculture emerged over thousands of years, such as the use of rows for the spatial organization of crops. In other…
View article: Smallholder farms have and can store more carbon than previously estimated
Smallholder farms have and can store more carbon than previously estimated Open
Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is increasingly targeted as a key strategy in climate change mitigation and improved ecosystem resiliency. Agricultural land, a dominant global land use, provides substantial challenges and oppor…
View article: Local to continental‐scale variation in fitness and heritability in common bean
Local to continental‐scale variation in fitness and heritability in common bean Open
Selection during plant domestication and improvement often decreases genetic variation, including variation that confers adaptation to local conditions. We report spatial and temporal variation in fitness (seed yield), local adaptation, an…
View article: The hidden land use cost of upscaling cover crops
The hidden land use cost of upscaling cover crops Open
Cover cropping is considered a cornerstone practice in sustainable agriculture; however, little attention has been paid to the cover crop production supply chain. In this Perspective, we estimate land use requirements to supply the United …
View article: Methodological Issues of Spatial Agent-Based Models
Methodological Issues of Spatial Agent-Based Models Open
Agent based modeling (ABM) is a standard tool that is useful across many disciplines. Despite widespread and mounting interest in ABM, even broader adoption has been hindered by a set of methodological challenges that run from issues aroun…
View article: Methodological Issues of Spatial Agent-Based Models
Methodological Issues of Spatial Agent-Based Models Open
Agent based modeling (ABM) is a standard tool that is useful across many disciplines. Despite widespread and mounting interest in ABM, even broader adoption has been hindered by a set of methodological challenges that run from issues aroun…
View article: The home field advantage of modern plant breeding
The home field advantage of modern plant breeding Open
Since the mid-20th century, crop breeding has driven unprecedented yield gains. Breeders generally select for broadly- and reliably-performing varieties that display little genotype-by-environment interaction (GxE). In contrast, ecological…
View article: Using word embeddings to generate data-driven human agent decision-making from natural language
Using word embeddings to generate data-driven human agent decision-making from natural language Open
Generating replicable and empirically valid models of human decision-making is crucial for the scientific accuracy and reproducibility of agent-based models. A two-fold challenge in developing models of decision-making is a lack of high re…
View article: The many‐faced Janus of plant breeding
The many‐faced Janus of plant breeding Open
Societal Impact Statement Plant breeding is crucial for improving agricultural crops for human use. However, an urgent rethink is needed to ensure the next generation of plant breeders have the necessary breadth of skills to provide ever m…
View article: GeoComputational Approaches to Evaluate the Impacts of Communication on Decision-making in Agriculture
GeoComputational Approaches to Evaluate the Impacts of Communication on Decision-making in Agriculture Open
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. 2018. Major: Geography. Advisors: Steven Manson, Nicholas Jordan. 1 computer file (PDF); 249 pages.
View article: Collaborative Geodesign and Spatial Optimization for Fragmentation-Free Land Allocation
Collaborative Geodesign and Spatial Optimization for Fragmentation-Free Land Allocation Open
Demand for agricultural food production is projected to increase dramatically in the coming decades, putting at risk our clean water supply and prospects for sustainable development. Fragmentation-free land allocation (FF-LA) aims to impro…
View article: Perennial Grain and Oilseed Crops
Perennial Grain and Oilseed Crops Open
Historically, agroecosystems have been designed to produce food. Modern societies now demand more from food systems—not only food, fuel, and fiber, but also a variety of ecosystem services. And although today's farming practices are produc…
View article: Sustainable commercialization of new crops for the agricultural bioeconomy
Sustainable commercialization of new crops for the agricultural bioeconomy Open
Diversification of agroecological systems to enhance agrobiodiversity is likely to be critical to advancing environmental, economic, and social sustainability of agriculture. Temperate-zone agroecological systems that are currently organiz…
View article: Agroecology Education by Bicycle on Two Continents: Student Perceptions and Instructor Reflections
Agroecology Education by Bicycle on Two Continents: Student Perceptions and Instructor Reflections Open
Given that much of the learning about international agroecology would ideally occur outside the classroom, adventure learning (AL) and systems action education (SAE) can offer synergistic approaches that synthesize these methodologies into…
View article: The Extended Classroom Framework for Teaching Systems Analysis of Food Systems
The Extended Classroom Framework for Teaching Systems Analysis of Food Systems Open
To further synthesize Systems Action Education (SAE) and adventure learning (AL), a new education framework is presented called the Extended Classroom Framework (ECF) for teaching systems analysis of food systems. Extended Classroom Framew…
View article: Optimizing nitrogen rates in the midwestern United States for maximum ecosystem value
Optimizing nitrogen rates in the midwestern United States for maximum ecosystem value Open
The importance of corn production to the midwestern United States cannot be overestimated. However, high production requires high nitrogen fertilization, which carries costs to environmental services such as water quality. Therefore, a tra…