Two for the Price of One: Training Crop Pest Modelers While Building New Maps

Chilo partellus larvae by J van den Berg

To improve our collective capacity to model and measure the economic costs of pests, weeds and diseases of the major food crops of the world, CSIRO and HarvestChoice-UMN are delivering a series of ecological modeling workshops.

How We're Pioneering the Mapping of Pests (Video)

Jason Beddow of HarvestChoice and the University of Minnesota, along with Darren Kriticos of CSIRO, explain how HarvestChoice is revolutionizing the science of tracking -- and predicting -- the paths of devastating crop pests and diseases such as UG99.

Potential Global Crop Pest Distributions Using CLIMEX: HarvestChoice Applications

Publishing Details

Publication Type: 
Report
Authored by:
Beddow, Jason M.; Kriticos, Darren; Pardey, Philip G.; Sutherst, Robert W.
Publisher: 
HarvestChoice
Publication Date: 
August, 2010
Pages: 
27

Abstract

HarvestChoice provides data, information and tools to support strategic investment decisions in agriculture.

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