We have concluded our series of nine webinars in the Virtual ICPA Webinar Series. The recorded webinars are available to ISPA members in good standing. You will need to login to view the recordings. 

On-Farm experimentation is a promising way to explore the local suitability of best practice recommendations with farmers. In a digital world of data abundance, however, the risks of drawing wrong conclusions are also more considerable than what they were. The on-farm experimentation community (OFE-C) of the ISPA intends to list, organize and make best on-farm experimentation practises (social, data, analytics, value creation) available to users. Signup using the OFE-C expression-of-interest form to be in the loop of very near future developments.

Michael Kremer got a share of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work on experimental approaches to alleviating global poverty. He notably showed innovative uses of randomized control trials to answer key development questions related to agriculture. Kremer recently gave a lecture at the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) to show how mobile technologies and digital agriculture can create innovations reaching out to smallholders as well. Kremer also addressed the role of higher-resolution weather information, customized pest-control advice and the opportunities to improve supply chains and extension services. His recently published work shows how information sharing through mobile telephony can improve yields and adoption of recommended inputs across sub-Saharan Africa and India. 

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The collection of translations of the definition of precision agriculture now includes Ukrainian. The collection includes now 14 translations. See more on the ispag.org website. 

 

 

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• University of Kentucky - Research Analyst - Computational Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
• Postdoctoral Fellow – Precision Livestock Farming, University of Missouri
• Open Rank Faculty - Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture - Director, University of Georgia
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Extension Instructor or Open Rank Extension Educator - Water & Cropping Systems NOFRN (Statewide)
• Assistant Professor, Precision Agronomy - University of Saskatchewan (USask)
• University of Georgia - Assistant Professor - Extension Specialist Precision Agriculture Systems

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