After decades of recording detailed information about different varieties of crops, their traits and the DNA sequences they hold, plant breeders...
Digital technologies are rapidly developing to solve the world’s most pressing problems, and middle and high school students are eager to try...
A dynamic team of student leaders from diverse agricultural fields, under the leadership of the Institute for Digital and Advanced Agricultural...
Rajiv Ranjan is a PhD scholar at Plaksha University (Mohali, India), specializing in Computer Vision and Geospatial Intelligence, with a focus on...
Herd records (breeding, pregnancy checks, births, weaning, treatments, etc.) have value from several perspectives including performance evaluation...
A team co-led by a Purdue University researcher has found that groups of fungi influence global tree species in distinct ways, depending on...
Purdue University’s College of Agriculture recently welcomed Ignacio Ciampitti, an internationally renowned expert in quantitative agronomy,...
The Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future (ISF) is beginning 2025 with new leadership. Margaret Gitau, professor of agricultural and biological...
Researchers are using AI to change agricultural research, and the results may reach your plate. Bedrich Benes, professor and associate head of...
Fire, metal, water, earth and wood. In South Korean tradition, these five elements explain personalities, relationships and even material...
Hold a leaf up to the light, and the branching network of veins stands out against the thinner, brighter background. Like blood circulating through...
Indiana ranks third in the nation for tomato production. Lori Hoagland, a professor in Purdue University’s Department of Horticulture and...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzz phrase of 2024. Though far from that cultural spotlight, scientists from agricultural, biological and...
Purdue Extension is revolutionizing agricultural education with its innovative Digital Ag Van
The few inches of soil you pick up on the tip of your shovel are part of a much bigger picture. Made from rocks weathered by winds and water over...
The Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture Center (IoT4Ag), now entering its fifth year, is paving the way for affordable technological...
Purdue College of Agriculture presents a seminar series featuring experts in data science, digital agriculture and digital forestry.
Thumping hind legs. Two pointed ears. White, fluffy cottontails. The markers of an enemy to gardeners and farmers worldwide. When Jeanine Arana,...
The Society of American Foresters (SAF) annually recognizes individuals for their outstanding achievements and significant contributions to...
Walking into Purdue’s Mechanisms And Robotic Systems (MARS) Lab feels like falling into a child’s imagination of what a lab could be....
In the spirit of building a community to manage and protect the world’s forests, Liang and his colleagues in Science-i created the Global Big...
Climate change, extreme weather events, unprecedented records in temperatures and higher, acidic oceans make it difficult to predict the long-term...
The February 2024 Farm Foundation® Forum, Seeds of Change: Exploring AI Solutions for Agriculture Today and Tomorrow, explores the...
Private databases have many applications in agriculture and beyond, such as home life and organizations.
AI2 partnered with the Bezos Earth Fund on a landmark event focused on AI & Climate with Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) as our honorary...
Keeping records of events, transactions, and important activities can be simplified using digital formats such as Airtable. This post is a recorded...
Field records (who, what, where, how) are those elements of records and data that are often missing when we try to analyze data. They have value...
Purdue College of Agriculture presents a seminar series featuring experts in data science, digital agriculture and digital forestry during the...
Purdue College of Agriculture presents a seminar series featuring experts in data science, digital agriculture and digital forestry during the Fall...
Digital Marketing and Grain Delivery Records
The Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, aka drones) Initiative started in 2017 with Specialists...
Farming has forever and will always require efficiency and vigilance. Producers have long looked for ways to keep one eye on their fields at all...
Field records (who, what, where, how) are those elements of records and data that are often missing when we try to analyze data. They have value...
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) necessitates improved records of monitoring, cleaning, trainings and inspections around your operations....
Spreadsheets come an many sizes and shapes and are a computational tool used for an unbelievable number of quantitative decisions. We have compiled...
The Purdue Extension/WHIN On-Farm Demonstrations 2021 Report provides summaries of projects conducted during the 2021 growing season throughout the...
Spring 2022's Data-Driven Agriculture seminar series highlighted the diversity of uses of data and automation in food and agricultural systems.
The Understanding Risks & Vulnerabilities via Food Systems Dashboards webinar presented by Jayson Lusk, Purdue University, focused on the...
The Tri-State Fertilizer recommendations are a collaborative effort among agronomists and like-minded experts from Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan....
NIST and its partners, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NIST), NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, Joint...
The CropLife Purdue survey is the most complete, longest running survey of precision agriculture adoption, focusing on agricultural retail products...
During the Spring 2021 semester, Purdue Agriculture hosted a weekly webinar series featuring experts in data science and digital agriculture at...
Purdue researchers gave an overview of the sensors and the IoT networks being used in ag and manufacturing deployments in the 10 counties around...
Public availability of data has helped U.S. agriculturalists engage in the worldwide marketplace in ways that would not have been possible...
Purdue University researchers discuss the new NSF Engineering Research Center on the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag) and work...
Bovine respiratory disease is prevalent and costly, leading to losses of almost $1 billion in the U.S. annually. Purdue researchers share how we...
For many producers the most practical application for unmanned aerial vehicles – UAVs – is to scout fields and while that is an...
The seminar provides information on how big data can be used to improve and track food safety information from the farm to food processors. In...
A lot has been said about “big data” in agriculture but less is known about how farmers actually value the data they collect. We cover...
Purdue University researchers share about key developments and applications of aerial remote sensing in digital forestry such as the application of...
Deep-learning methods are showing a great promise for identifying objects of interest based on benchmark test datasets. This presentation discusses...
Purdue University researchers share how to use state-of-the-art terrestrial LiDAR, photogrammetry, and integrated systems to conduct...
There are many posts on a variety of topics related to digital agriculture on our Digital Agriculture website! Specifically as we head into the...
Mobile applications (apps) can be helpful in many different ways for your farm or agribusiness. From reporting markets to identifying pests, you...
Purdue and iYOTAH have been working with a commercial dairy farm to predict and influence how much cows eat based on data automatically collected...
John Scott, Purdue Extension coordinator for digital agriculture, discusses the benefits and challenges around using UAVs in livestock production,...
Shaun Casteel and Richard Smith, Purdue University, presented on the ability of sUAS to assess soybean stands as it relates to optimal plant...
The Precision Soil Maps: Moving Beyond Soil Survey webinar focuses on work being done at Purdue to move beyond the traditional soil surveys and the...
IoT is changing the requirements on wireless networks and LoRa (long range) can meet those needs – even on your farm. Learn how LoRa and...
Dennis Buckmaster, Purdue University, walks through different Excel features that can help you extend the power of your spreadsheets. Some of these...
Andrew Balmos, Purdue University, introduces a new web-based tool created by the team at the OATS Center that uses open source data to track...
The Purdue Ag Team prepared a series of video updates regarding testbeds (research), education, and extension (outreach) for a meeting with WHIN...
Even if you have been an Excel user for years, there are likely features or approaches that could make you excel at Excel even more. This workshop...
The by-field (or management zone) enterprise (crop) planner can facilitate a fuller budget analysis and includes inputs of land, seed, fertilizers,...
Dennis Buckmaster, Purdue University, takes a deeper dive into how to manipulate data within a spreadsheet, including using pivot tables, filters...
Dennis Buckmaster, professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering at Purdue University, demonstrates how to use logical spreadsheeting to...
Andrew Balmos, Purdue University, and Zach Mason, Wabash Heartland Innovation Network, explain how APIs are around every corner of the Digital Ag...
This user-friendly Excel spreadsheet allows easy calculation of the comparative cost of P2O5.
Andrew Balmos, data/software engineer, and John Scott, digital agriculture extension coordinator, discuss the importance of proper sensor...
Gaganpreet Singh Hundal, a PhD candidate in computer and information technology and graduate research assistant in digital agriculture at Purdue...
It is common to move materials such as grains from one place to another (on the farm or leaving the farm). While there may be official...
Purdue researchers review options around rural wireless communications in a three-part tutorial. Get a better understanding of radio frequency (RF)...
Learn how to use apps like Trello, Google Sheets, Google Maps and more to help manage your farm and agribusiness data. Dennis Buckmaster, professor...
In this YouTube video, Yaguang Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, addresses ”Large-scale...
In this YouTube video, Andrew Balmos, software/data engineer in Purdue Agriculture, gives a Python tutorial with an application heat units to lend...
In this YouTube video, Yang Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, gives a “Primer on rural...
In this YouTube video, Dr. Bruce Erickson, e-Learning director for Purdue Agronomy, covers “Lessons learned from technology adoption –...
"Digital agriculture and data science are important tools for our farmers in Indiana,” said Karen Plaut, the Glenn W. Sample Dean of the...
The WHIN Data Portal is live and licenses are available (FREE for education). The WHIN Living Laboratory spreads across a 10-county region, making...
Trello is a free web-based cross-platform tool that allows users to collaborate and can be useful on your farming operation.
What is digital agriculture? How is digital agriculture going to change the landscape of farming over the next decade?
Several faculty in the Purdue College of Agriculture are helping to move the technology front forward. These faculty have received some funding...
These are not “your father’s spreadsheets”. We find that many people are put off by computer programming because the leading...
Purdue researchers explain a variety of IoT devices in a series of videos that introduces the concept of IoT.
The Purdue Center for Regional Development has released a new resource as part of its Rural Indiana Stats (RIS) website that can prove valuable to...
AgGateway, a global, non-profit organization whose members develop standards and other resources so that companies can rapidly access information,...
PURR is the Purdue University Research Repository. PURR publishes and archives digital datasets from researchers across campus and welcomes all...
Drs. Gang Shao, Guofan Shao, & Songlin Fei of Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources recently published the article - Delineation of...
Many see digital agriculture and data science as the future of the industry. At Purdue University, the future is unfolding now, in different...
The growth of local food movements offers farmers economic opportunities to access attractive markets for fresh locally-grown crops, such as...
Purdue Agriculture researchers created the CONTxT application to help producers collect metadata from their fields.
The goals of the Agriculture/Rural SuperCluster are to develop projects, best practices and a blueprint to assist rural communities and...
There is a perception that adoption of precision agriculture (PA) has been slow. This study reviews the public data on farm level use of PA in crop...
The objective of this research was to evaluate producers’ perspectives of four key precision agriculture technologies (variable rate...
Have you thought that the postings on social media can help improve food quality and safety? Scientists can use Artificial Intelligence to analyze...
The Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture Crop Basis Tool is an open-access web-based tool that provides grain industry participants with access...
Driven by Purdue’s many digital agriculture innovations and contributions and serving a wide range of audiences, the website is a hub of...