Minnesota Association of Professional Soil Scientists

Good Morning, Gary,

Can you help us with generate webinar participation and feedback related to the following soil mapping technology?

The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development (NCRCRD) at Michigan State University is continuing our webinar series “Innovations in Agriculture and Rural Development.” Webinars feature technology that has been developed by the 12 North Central land-grants and all our webinars are free to anyone interested. Our primary goal is to help disseminate information regarding new innovations in agriculture. Our secondary goal is to help generate potential intermediate/end user feedback for technology developers. This is a great platform for industry to connect with university researchers.

Our last webinar this year is about efforts to improve soil information available to producers regarding precision agriculture.

Webinar Details

Title: Soil functional maps for crop management and planning

Date: Tuesday December 9, 2014

Time: 12:30 PM ET/11:30 AM CT

Webinar Description: The current available soil information from the USDA Soil Survey was not created with the detail necessary for precision management. Additionally, the soil maps were created based on how soils look different as opposed to how they function differently or the same. Research at Purdue University has created a soil mapping process that delivers soil properties on a continuous basis that predicts multiple soil properties across the field. The method creates maps of chemical properties which affect nutrition of crops, but also predicts physical properties which affect water availability. Both soil fertility and water availability are important for predicting crop performance. The resulting maps are flexible and can be combined to create different indices for specific outcomes. This method has been developed and streamlined to map large or small areas across the USA. Also, additional soil information can be added to the model to continuously improve the maps.

About Our Presenters:

Phillip R. Owens is an Associate Professor of Pedology/Soil Geomorphology in the Department of Agronomy at Purdue University. Dr. Owens research interests include soil and landscape processes, hydropedology and digital soil mapping.

To access the free webinar on Tuesday Dec. 9th, go to: https://connect.msu.edu/newtech/ and select “Enter as a Guest.” You will then be directed to the MSU Adobe Connect page. Currently, a flyer for the upcoming webinar is posted on the page. If you need technical assistance accessing the page, please contact MSU Adobe Connect at: (517) 355-2345 or 1-800-500-1554.

Also, if you have any questions about the webinar you can email me or call my office phone (517) 353-2129. Finally, I have included a link to my MSU and LinkedIn profiles at the end of this email.

Thank you for your interest!

John

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John Mann, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Center for Economic Analysis, and

North Central Regional Center for Rural Development

Michigan State University

446 W. Circle Drive, Room 207

East Lansing, MI, 48824-1039

Office Phone: (517) 353-2129

Email: mannjoh3@anr.msu.edu

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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/john-mann/20/868/a34/