Publications
Greater overall productivity in continuous winter wheat cropping system when forage crops are included in the crop sequence
April 2024
Ignacio Massigoge, Rudra Baral, Sofía Cominelli, Ethan Denson, Paula García Helguera, Cesar Guareschi, Luana M. Simão, Joaquín Peraza Rud, Carlos B. Pires, J. Anita Dille, Romulo P. Lollato, Doohong Min, Andres Patrignani, Dorivar A. Ruiz Diaz, Trevor Hefley, Sara Lira, P.V. Vara Prasad, Charles W. Rice, Jerry Hatfield, Ignacio A. Ciampitti. Exploring alternative crop rotations to continuous winter wheat for agricultural intensification in the US central Great Plains. Agricultural Systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2024.103879.
Potential green sources of N for winter wheat in the US Southern Great Plain
March, 2024
Hardeep Singh, Brian K. Northup, Prasanna H. Gowda, Peter Omara, Gurjinder S. Baath, P.V. Vara Prasad. Moth bean and tepary bean as green nitrogen sources in intensive winter wheat cropping systems. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. Volume 15, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2023.100938.
Environment tailored management strategies for maize crop to improve and sustain yields over time
September, 2023
Ignacio Massigoge, Ana Carcedo, Jane Lingenfelser, Trevor Hefley, P.V. Vara Prasad, Dan Berning, Sara Lira, Carlos D. Messina, Charles W. Rice, Ignacio Ciampitti. Maize planting date and maturity in the US central Great Plains: Exploring windows for maximizing yields,
European Journal of Agronomy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2023.126905
Impacts of tillage systems and green manures on water storage efficiency (WSE) during summer, water use efficiency (WUE), and grain yield of winter wheat
March 10, 2023
Singh H., Northup B.K., Vara Prasad P.V. Water storage and use efficiencies of rainfed winter wheat-summer green
manure systems of the US Southern Great Plains. European Journal of Agronomy 146 (2023) 126818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2023.126818
Improving soil quality through conservation tillage systems and diversified crop rotation
February 07, 2023
Lin, J.S., Sarto, M.V.M., Carter, T.L. et al. Soil organic carbon, aggregation and fungi community after 44 years of no-till and cropping systems in the Central Great Plains, USA. Arch Microbiol 205, 84 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-023-03421-2
Implications of the choice of parameterization on the WUE estimations and partitioning outcomes
January 15, 2023
Wagle P., Raghav P., Kumar M., Gunter S.A. (2023). Influence of water use efficiency parameterizations on flux variance similarity-based partitioning of evapotranspiration; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168192322004415
Developing spatial-scale approaches to model and monitor agricultural vegetation
October 23, 2022
Nandan, R., Bandaru, V., He, J., Daughtry, C., Gowda, P., & Suyker, A. E. (2022). Evaluating Optical Remote Sensing Methods for Estimating Leaf Area Index for Corn and Soybean. Remote Sens. 2022, 14(21), 5301; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14215301
Assessing the effectiveness of Vegetation Index based Evapotranspiration partitioning approach in disturbed (i.e., grazed) ecosystems
August 09, 2022
Raghav, P., Wagle, P., Kumar, M., Banerjee, T., & Neel, J. P. S. (2022). Vegetation index-based partitioning of evapotranspiration is deficient in grazed systems. Water Resources Research, 58, e2022WR032067. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022WR032067
Evaluation of Tepary Beans to Withstand Short Flooding Events
April 7, 2022
Witt T, Flynn KC, Villavicencio C, Northup BK (2022). "Flood tolerance and flood loss predictions for tepary bean across the U.S. Southern Great Plains" Agronomy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.21084
Improve predictions of crop yield and evapotranspiration
November 11, 2021
Varaprasad Bandaru, Raghu Yaramasu, Curtis Jones, R. César Izaurralde, Ashwan Reddy, Fernando Sedano, Craig S.T. Daughtry, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Chris Justice. 2022. "Geo-CropSim: A Geo-spatial crop simulation modeling framework for regional scale crop yield and water use assessment". ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 183: 34-53 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.10.024.
Evaluation of a novel lower cost CRNP based on moderated ultra-thin lithium-6 foil (Li foil system) technology
July 07, 2021
Andres Patrignani; Tyson E Ochsner; Benjamin Montag; Steven Bellinger. (2021). A Novel Lithium Foil Cosmic-Ray Neutron Detector for Measuring Field-Scale Soil Moisture. Frontiers in Water. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2021.673185
Incorporating a fast Richards Equation solution into EPIC and APEX models
May 17, 2021
C.D. Jones, A.D. Reddy, J. Jeong, J.R. Williams, S.K. Hamilton, M.Z. Hussain, V. Bandaru, R.C. Izaurralde. (2021). Improved hydrological modeling with APEX and EPIC: Model description, testing, and assessment of bioenergy producing landscape scenarios. Environmental Modelling & Software. Volume 143, 105111,
ISSN 1364-8152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105111
Applying Flux Variance Similarity (FVS) partitioning to a range of biomes and climate conditions.
April 27, 2021
Evaluation of water use efficiency algorithms for Flux Variance similarity-based evapotranspiration partitioning in C3 and C4 grain crops. Pradeep Wagle, Todd H. Skaggs, Prasanna H. Gowda, Brian K. Northup, James P. S. Neel, and Ray G. Anderson. Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR028866. https:// doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028866
Modeling study utilizing DSSAT-CSM
March 2, 2021
Baath GS, Northup BK, Rao SC, and Kakani VG. (2021). Productivity and water use in intensified forage soybean-wheat cropping systems of the US southern Great Plains. Field Crops Research, Volume 265,108086, ISSN 0378-4290, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108086
Comparing nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from residues of grass pea and oat grown as green nitrogen (N) crops
February 2021
N2O Emissions From Residues of Oat and Grass Pea Cover Crops Cultivated in the US Southern Great Plains. Hardeep Singh, Tanka P Kandel, Prasanna H Gowda, Brian K Northup, and Vijaya G Kakani. Front. Sustain. Food Syst., 10 February 2021| https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.604934
Partitioned canola evapotranspiration (ET) using Flux Variance Similarity method
February 26, 2021
Wagle P, Gowda PH, Northup BK, and Neel JPS. (2021). Ecosystem-level water use efficiency and evapotranspiration partitioning in conventional till and no-till rainfed canola. Agricultural Water Management, Volume 250, 2021, 106825, ISSN 0378-3774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106825
Distinguishing Evaporation from Transpiration
Total Factor Productivity Growth and Weather
May 5, 2020
Chambers, Robert G., and Simone Pieralli. 2020. “The Sources of Measured US Agricultural Productivity Growth: Weather, Technological Change, and Adaptation.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 102 (4): 1198–1226. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajae.12090
May 15, 2020
Wagle, Pradeep, Todd H. Skaggs, Prasanna H. Gowda, Brian K. Northup, and James P. S. Neel. 2020. “Flux Variance Similarity-Based Partitioning of Evapotranspiration over a Rainfed Alfalfa Field Using High Frequency Eddy Covariance Data.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 285–286 (May): 107907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107907