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Trevisan Presents at ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting

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   The American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America hosted the 2019 International Annual Meeting, “Embracing the Digital Environment,” on November 10-13, 2019, in San Antonio, Texas.

   Rodrigo Trevisan, graduate student in Crop Sciences, gave two presentations titled, Understanding the Spatial Variability of Optimum Nitrogen Rates Using Remote Sensing and on-Farm Precision Experimentation and Using Deep Learning to Predict Optimum Crop Management Decisions.

View the presentation materials below:

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A Visit to the Field

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It was a chilly harvest day in Illinois, but that didn’t phase University of Illinois Ph.D. student, Aolin Gong. Gong visited one of the DIFM fields to gain some firsthand experience of what harvest is like behind the scenes.

Pictured above is graduate student, Aolin Gong, standing in front of the CASE IH combine. Pictures taken by DIFM Coordinator, Carli Miller. 

 

Development of a new method for cotton yield monitoring: Think big or go home!

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Check out this story from Dr. Tony Grift regarding Brendan Kuhns, a graduate student working with the DIFM Project:

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New Grad Student at UNL

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One of our new DIFM project members, Zhengzheng Gao, is pursuing a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Gao is from Beijing, China, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is particularly interested in monetary and fiscal policy, environmental economics, and development economics in China.