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New UF/IFAS professor to combine AI and plant breeding; teach tomorrow’s AI innovators

by Brad Buck
May 24, 2022

As a child in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Carlos “Charlie” Messina knew he wanted to help people produce food worldwide, while also preserving the environment. But learning about agriculture in a big city wasn’t easy. Fortunately, his ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: #aiatuf, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Buenos Aires, Charlie Messina, Crop Models, Drought, Flood, Genomics, Horticultural Sciences, Jim Jones, Meteorology, Plant Breeding

Scientists help UF/IFAS predict where to grow food worldwide

by Brad Buck
January 24, 2018

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Researchers from across the globe -- including some from the University of Florida -- are improving a UF/IFAS-designed software system developed to help feed the world. More than 30 scientists came to UF this month to ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Decision Support System For Agrotechnology Transfer, DSSAT, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Institute For Sustainable Food Systems, Jim Jones, News

Agricultural systems modeling group to hold meetings Feb. 23-28 at UF

by Tom Nordlie
February 18, 2015

Cutline below GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- In recent years, computer technology has begun to help agricultural producers solve dilemmas as old as farming itself -- predicting future crop yields, supplies and prices -- using sophisticated models ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops
Tags: AgMIP, Climate Change, Food Security, Jim Jones, Ken Boote, Model, Modeling

UF/IFAS study: Model may help growers mitigate costly droughts

by Brad Buck
June 18, 2014

Caption at bottom GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A University of Florida-created model may help growers plant at optimal times and avoid crop-destroying drought, which can cost millions of dollars in a given year, according to one of the tool’s ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS
Tags: Drought, Ingram, Jim Jones

UF researchers find wheat production models disagree under climate change scenarios

by BLOGS.IFAS
June 10, 2013

Click here for high-resolution version. Caption at bottom. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida researchers have found, for the first time, that crop models predicting yields for one of the world’s most important crops begin to disagree ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: AgMIP, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Agricultural Model Intercomparison And Improvement Project, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Frank Ewert, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Jim Jones, Ken Boote, Nature Climate Change, Senthold Asseng, University Of Florida, Wheat

Grants to Help UF Experts Build Carbon Sciences and Climate-Response Programs for Ag, Natural Resources Industries

by BLOGS.IFAS
September 16, 2008

By: Tom Nordlie - (352) 273-3567 Sources: Jim Jones - jimj@ufl.edu, (352) 392-1864 x289 Tim Martin - tamartin@ufl.edu, (352) 846-0866 Mark McLellan - mrm1@ufl.edu, (352) 392-1784 View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Two new grants will enable ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Invasive Species, UF/IFAS Research, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Climate Change, Jim Jones, Mark McLellan, Tim Martin

UF laboratory dedicated to a “super” friend

by BLOGS.IFAS
November 17, 2006

By: Stu Hutson 352-392-0400 Source: Jim Jones jimj@ufl.edu, 352-392-1864 ext. 289 View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The word “super” will forever be synonymous with Room 288 of the University of Florida’s Frazier Rogers Hall—now known ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Jim Jones

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