A Web Platform for Forecast and Assessment of Cropping sysTemS (FACTS)

June 24, 2016

See the full article: https://crops.extension.iastate.edu/cropnews/2016/06/web-platform-forecast-and-…

Crops are growing rapidly and questions regarding expected end-of-season yields and soil water and nitrogen (N) status in the fields become very timely. A group of faculty, researchers, farm managers, and students from Iowa State University have developed a free, publicly available online platform (/home) to provide answers to these questions.

map showing locations of experimental sites

Fig. 1. Locations of the experimental sites where 20 site-crop-management replicated treatments are monitored. Three of the six sites have tile drainage. Blue circles are locations with tile drainage and red circles are locations without tile drainage.

FACTS is an ongoing project developed to forecast and evaluate in real-time soil-crop dynamics at specific ISU research fields (field scale) and at regional scale. Predictions will be frequently updated as new information becomes available. The project investigators and Iowa State University are not responsible for extrapolations made by individuals to other fields. Information from this website can be used for presentations without further permission if used in its entirety and credit is given to the Iowa State University FACTS project. Information from this website cannot be used in publications or other model improvement activities without prior permission of the project investigators.