Projects initiated in 2019
José Chávez, Colorado State University; Daran Rudnick, University of Nebraska Lincoln; Juan Enciso, Texas A&M University; Florence Cassel, Fresno State University
Partner: Lindsay Corporation
Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) and satellites have been recognized as excellent platforms to provide near real-time feedback of temporal and spatial conditions found in agricultural fields throughout the growing season…read more
Joshua Craver, Colorado State University
Industry Partners: Vertical Irrigation LLC
Abstract: Vertical indoor farming is capturing a larger market share of food production, yet problems in this nascent field remain…read more
Cathie Lavis, Dale Bremer, Jack Fry and Jared Hoyle, Kansas State University; Benjamin Wherley and Ambika Chandra, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Jay Ham, Tony Koski and Yaling Qian, Colorado State University
Industry Partner: The Toro Company
Abstract: Landscape irrigation strategies usually rely on calendar or evapotranspiration (ET) schedules that completely ignore soil moisture…read more
Christopher Neale, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska
Industry Partner: LICOR
Abstract: This project will expand the Parallel 41 network of eddy covariance flux being implemented in the Central Plains of the US…read more
Fayzul Pasha, Ph.D., P.E., California State University Fresno
Industry Partners: WiseConn, AgH2O, Dynamax, Jain Irrigation, and Irrometer
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) will be used to develop a model for estimating crop water demand…read more

Kaomine S. Vang, Center for Irrigation Technology-Fresno State
Industry partner: Perigo LLC
Abstract: Filters for sand media filtration are typically designed to operate at pressures too high for drip irrigation…read more

Next Generation Technology for Monitoring Edge-of-Field (EoF) Water Quality in Agriculture
Emmanuel Deleon, Erik Wardle, Jay Ham, Dylan Casey, and Christina Welch
Abstract: Irrigated agriculture has the potential to be a contributor to non-point source water quality issues…read more

Edson Costa-Filho, José L. Chávez, Allan A. Andales, and Ansley J. Brown
Abstract: We describe the implementation of a cost-effective ecosystem-monitoring network and subsequently use the observations to inform well-known evapotranspiration equations to test if a model can replicate processes that generate the data…read more