The University of Illinois will ramp up new fertilizer management research thanks to a $2.398 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

 

This grant was part of $16.5 million awarded through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

 

David Bullock, agricultural and consumer economics professor, is the lead investigator for the research that focuses on using precision technology in on-farm field trials to enable data-intensive fertilizer management.

 

“There is a critical need to generate reliable, site-specific estimates of optimal fertilizer application rates and timing that will be readily adopted by farmers. To generate high-quality data, we will use precision agriculture technology and develop CyberGIS-based software to run low-cost, large-scale, on-farm agronomic field trials conducted by farmers during normal operations,” U of I’s grant application stated.

 

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