Session: Predictive Agriculture Foundations I: Forecasting Crop Adaptation for International Agriculture Oral

Division: ASA Section: Climatology and Modeling

Title: Predictive Agriculture Foundations I: Forecasting Crop Adaptation for International Agriculture Oral

Lead Community Sponsor: Agroclimatology and Agronomic Modeling Community
Cosponsor: ASA Section: Climatology and Modeling, C01 Crop Breeding and Genetics, C02 Crop Physiology and Metabolism, C03 Crop Ecology, Management and Quality
Community Cosponsor:
Format: Oral Topical Session
Keywords: crop model, international agriculture and predictive agriculture

Session Description: Crop models are instruments of translational plant biology. These enable decision makers utilize foundational concepts in crop science to improve realized genetic gain and the sustainability of agro-ecosystems. Advances in information and sensing technologies made large datasets and prediction algorithms available to practitioners, which application resulted in the development of useful solutions. It is opportune to ask how this encapsulated knowledge will contribute to the advancement of agricultural science and technology. This session seeks to initiate an integrated effort to define “Predictive Agriculture” and improve quantitative forecasting of consequences of the manipulation of crops at scales from plants to globe.