Precision farming at the nexus of agricultural production and the environment

R Finger, SM Swinton, N El Benni… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Precision farming enables agricultural management decisions to be tailored spatially and
temporally. Site-specific sensing, sampling, and managing allow farmers to treat a field as a …

Addressing agricultural nitrogen losses in a changing climate

TM Bowles, SS Atallah, EE Campbell… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Losses of nitrogen from agriculture are a major threat to environmental and human health at
local, regional and global scales. Emerging evidence shows that climate change and …

Precision agriculture and sustainability

R Bongiovanni, J Lowenberg-DeBoer - Precision agriculture, 2004 - Springer
Precision Agriculture (PA) can help in managing crop production inputs in an
environmentally friendly way. By using site-specific knowledge, PA can target rates of …

Use of nitrogen-fixing bacteria as biofertiliser for non-legumes: prospects and challenges

RB Bhattacharjee, A Singh… - Applied microbiology and …, 2008 - Springer
The potential of nitrogen-fixing (NF) bacteria to form a symbiotic relationship with
leguminous plants and fix atmospheric nitrogen has been exploited in the field to meet the …

Organic nitrogen deposition on land and coastal environments: a review of methods and data

SE Cornell, TD Jickells, JN Cape, AP Rowland… - Atmospheric …, 2003 - Elsevier
Despite over a century of published reports of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in
precipitation, its implications are still being appraised. The number of studies focusing on …

Temporal and spatial relationships between within‐field yield variability in cotton and high‐spatial hyperspectral remote sensing imagery

PJ Zarco‐Tejada, SL Ustin, ML Whiting - Agronomy journal, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional remote sensing methods for yield estimation rely on broadband vegetation
indices, such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, NDVI. Despite demonstrated …

Digital transformation of the agricultural sector: pathways, drivers and policy implications

M Khanna - Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The digital transformation of agriculture is enabling the collection of vast amounts of geo‐
referenced information about growing conditions within the field and facilitating the …

Historical development and applications of the EPIC and APEX models

PW Gassman, JR Williams, VW Benson… - 2004 ASAE Annual …, 2004 - elibrary.asabe.org
The development of the field-scale Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator (EPIC) modelwas
initiated in 1981 to support assessments of soil erosion impacts on soil productivity for soil …

Evaluation of management alternatives for an agricultural watershed in a sub-humid subtropical region using a physical process based model

S Behera, RK Panda - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2006 - Elsevier
Assessments of potential environmental impacts of non-point source (NPS) pollutants at
local and regional scales are necessary as a basis for effective management strategies to …

[HTML][HTML] Financial comparison of seven nitrate reduction strategies for Midwestern agricultural drainage

L Christianson, J Tyndall, M Helmers - Water Resources and Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Much work has been invested in the development of practices and technologies that reduce
nitrate losses from agricultural drainage in the US Midwest. While each individual practice …