Mar 23, 2012 by Jeff Horwich - 0 comments

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.

Tags: Agricultural Pests, Agroecology, Cereals, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Communication, Crop Diseases, Crops, Mapping, Pest Management, Pest Mapping, Pest Modeling, Risk, Rusts, Stem Rust, UG99, Videos, Wheat, Risk, Land Cover , Pests and Diseases, Wheat, Farming, Special Topics

Mar 23, 2012 by Jeff Horwich - 0 comments

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.

Tags: Agricultural Pests, Agroecology, Cereals, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Communication, Crop Diseases, Mapping, Pest Management, Pest Mapping, Pest Modeling, Risk, Rusts, Stem Rust, UG99, Videos, Wheat, Risk, Land Cover , Pests and Diseases, Farming, Special Topics

Aug 16, 2010 by Joe (Zhe) Guo - 0 comments

AgMarketFinder v2.0

AgMarketFinder v2.0

HarvestChoice AgMarketFinder is a web-based geoprocessing GIS application that provides a quick-and-easy access to the spatially-explicit agricultural statistics databases, including crop, livestock, and rural/urban human population. No GIS skill necessary!

Tags: Crop Area, Crop Production, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Infrastructure and Transportation, Livestock Production, Market Access, Markets, Population, Population, Time of Travel, Market Access, Production, Demographics, Farming, Markets

Aug 15, 2010 by Melanie Bacou - 0 comments

Household Attributes (Credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dadakim/1346547512/)

Farm Household Attributes

HarvestChoice relies heavily on large sets of household survey data to evaluate the economic impact of biophysical productivity responses at the farm level and on target populations.

Tags: Consumption, Farm Characteristics, Food Consumption, Gender, Household Surveys, Households, Nutrition, Rural Areas, Urban Areas, Households, Consumption and Nutrition, Demographics

Aug 15, 2010 by Jawoo Koo - 0 comments

YIELD RESPONSES TO NITROGEN

Yield Responses

Conceptually, in its simplest form, one may liken the cultivation of a crop in the field to a mathematical function.

Tags: Africa, Crop Models, Crop Yields, East & Central Africa, Ethiopia, Farm Inputs, Fertilizers, Models, Nitrogen, Soils, Urea, Soil and Water Stresses, Yield Analysis, Input Use, Production, Farming, Productivity
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