Data Driven Agriculture Webinar Series

During the Spring 2021 semester, Purdue Agriculture hosted a weekly webinar series featuring experts in data science and digital agriculture at Purdue University. Each Thursday from February through May, the Data Driven Agriculture webinars explored ways digital agriculture and data science can impact agriculture today and into the future.

“Building on the momentum of last fall’s digital agriculture webinars, we wanted to highlight not only how data is being used today but also explore its future potential,” said Dennis Buckmaster, agricultural and biological engineering professor and Dean’s Fellow of Digital Agriculture at Purdue University. “In this series, researchers from across the College of Agriculture – and beyond – showcased how they are using data to improve crop, livestock and forest management decisions, increase produce safety, quickly identify disease outbreaks in livestock, and much more.”

To view the entire series, check out the Data Driven Agriculture playlist on Purdue Agriculture’s YouTube channel or click on a link below for more information about individual webinars.

Feb. 4 – Precision Soil Maps: Moving Beyond Soil Survey. Jason Ackerson, assistant professor of agronomy
Feb. 11 – The Cover Up: UAV Assessment of Soybean. Shaun Casteel, associate professor of agronomy and Extension soybean and small grains specialist
Feb. 18 – UAVs in Livestock Production. John Scott, Extension coordinator for digital agriculture
Feb. 25 – Partnering with Industry to Move from Reactive to Proactive: A Dairy Farm Example. Jackie Boerman, assistant professor of animal sciences, and Paul Ousterhout, iYOTAH
Mar. 4 – Digital Forestry: Key Developments in Terrestrial Remote Sensing. Brady Hardiman, assistant professor of forestry and natural resources; Guofan Shao, professor of forestry and natural resources; and Ayman Habib, professor of civil engineering
Mar. 11 – On Farm Experimentation, Robert Nielsen, professor of agronomy and Extension corn specialist
Mar. 18 – Digital Forestry: Key Developments in Aerial Remote Sensing. Songlin Fei, professor of forestry and natural resources and Dean’s Chair of Remote Sensing; Joe Hupy, associate professor of aviation technology; and Jinha Jung, assistant professor of civil engineering
Mar. 25 – Data in Produce Safety. Amanda Deering, clinical associate professor of food science, and Jennifer Crandall, CEO of Safe Food En Route, LLC
Apr. 1 – Putting a Price on Data. Nathan DeLay, assistant professor of agricultural economics
Apr. 8 – How Good is Deep-Learning for Weed Identification Using UAV-Imagery. Dharmendra Saraswat, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Varun Aggarwal, graduate student in agricultural and biological engineering
Apr. 15 – Smarter Treatment of Livestock Disease. Mohit Verma, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Aaron Ault, senior research engineer
Apr. 22 – Practical Applications for UAVs. John Scott, Extension coordinator for digital agriculture
Apr. 29 – IoT Networks: Sensors and Data Visualization. Nithin Raghunathan, research scientist, and Charilaos Mousoulis, senior research scientist
May 6 – Public Data for the Public Good. Nicole Widmar, professor and associate head of agricultural economics
May 13 – Machines and Robotics. John Evans, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and David Cappelleri, associate professor of mechanical engineering

To view the fall webinar series, visit https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVrv1vgCwEkngORY-wcIXKDeuVUJcp4ow.

This series is supported in part by the Wabash Heartland Innovation Network (WHIN).

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