Tag: Process Automation

The Purdue Student Farm faced challenges with inadequate plant transpiration within their year-round controlled environment growing containers. While the farm team had collected airflow data through their own measurements, they needed a clearer way to interpret these findings. To address...

Dr. Brock Harpur's lab in Purdue Entomology studies how honey bees evolve and adapt — questions that matter for the health of a pollinator agriculture depends on. To understand what a newly sequenced bee genome reveals, the lab first has...

Purdue Agricultural Centers (PACs) across the state of Indiana collect many different types of data every year at both field and smaller research trial scales. The amount of historic data generated from each of these PACs is substantial, especially with...

Purdue’s 7,300-square-foot phenotyping facility

Dr. Jackie Boerman and Dr. Luiz Britol wanted to analyze data produced at dairy farms. Dairy producers are utilizing multiple software programs and sensors on their farms to assist with the management of their farms. A challenge to fully utilizing...

Dr. Shalamar Armstrong's Soil Ecosystem and Nutrient Dynamics (SEND) Lab, in Purdue Agronomy, studies how cover crops protect farmland — the nutrients in the soil, the water that runs off it, and the yields that follow. The harder problem was...