Agreement Number
NR233A750011G013
Awardee Name
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Grant Type
On-Farm Trials
Project Title
Advancing precision variable rate irrigation technology to optimize crop water productivity and environmental sustainability
Awardee State/Territory
Florida
Involved States/territories
Florida
Georgia
Minnesota
Award Year
2022
Start Date
End Date
Award Amount
$1,658,031.00
Production/Use
Farmland Agricultural
Resource Concern (Broad)
Water
Resource Concern (Specific)
Water Quantity
Conservation Practice(s)
Irrigation Water Management
Project Background
This project brings together three different production rotations (corn/cotton; corn/peanut and corn/bean) and tests a novel suite of existing technology solutions. The University of Florida will compare variable rate irrigation (VRI) with soil electrical conductivity (EC) mapping and VRI with high resolution remote sensing with uniform rate irrigation to evaluate the environmental and associated economic benefits of adopting the VRI. The project will design a physical model- based predictive control system for adaptive VRI and develop a zone-delineation tool to assess the field variability at a regional scale.
Project Scale
Regional
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No