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January 20, 2020
This blog is a submission to the Community of Practice on Data-Driven Agronomy’s blog competition on digital extension—an opportunity for those working in the digital extension in agriculture field to share their experiences with their technologies, business models, key challenges, and major bottlenecks, as well as how they solved such challenges, when creating and implementing innovative solutions.
January 17, 2020
In the “Let it rain” challenge, farmers can take to their mobile phones to predict what day the rainy season will start
January 17, 2020
The pumps’ sensors record real-time data such as energy usage and pump speed in each location, which is then used to calculate groundwater extraction rates and levels
January 16, 2020
A new digital early warning system for wheat blast disease integrates mathematical models that, when combined with weather forecasts, can simulate disease growth and risks to forewarn against potential outbreaks.
January 10, 2020
The Crop Modelling Community of Practice provided a mini-grant to Peter Jones of Waen Associates in order to solve MarkSim data dilemmas. Read about the journey to the solution: MetGrid files.