Current Crop Models

Dr Gerrit Hoogenboom is Professor and Preeminent Scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida, USA. With over 30 years’ experience and over 500 peer-reviewed publications, he is acknowledged as a global expert in crop modelling. He currently coordinates development of the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT), one of the leading crop modelling systems. Professor Hoogenboom also co-authored the chapter on DSSAT in Burleigh Dodds Science’s successful 2019 title: Advances in crop modelling for a sustainable agriculture (ed. Ken Boote). Professor Hoogenboom is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Agricultural Science. Dr Kenneth Boote is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Agronomy at the University of Florida, USA. He is widely regarded as a pioneer in crop modelling, helping to develop the DSSAT software application program that simulates growth for over 40 different crops. He is presently serving as Co-Lead for Crop Modeling in AgMIP, the global Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project. Amongst his many distinctions, Professor Boote is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Crop Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy. Dr. Bruno Basso is an agro-ecosystem scientist and University Foundation Professor in Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and W.K. Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University. He is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy, and 2016 recipient of the Innovation of the year award and 2019 Outstanding Faculty Award at Michigan State University and the recipient of the 2021 Morgan Stanley Sustainable Solutions Prize. He is ranked as top 2% scientist across all disciplines and 0.006% in the field of Agronomy, Agriculture, Meteorology. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Dr Claas Nendel heads the Research Group on Landscape Modelling at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany. He is also Professor of Landscape Systems Analysis at the University of Potsdam. Dr Nendel is the Past President of the European Society of Agronomy and hosted, among other events, the first International Crop Modelling Symposium in Berlin in 2016. He is principal developer of the MONICA model which simulates biophysical processes in agroecosystems to allow assessment of regional impacts of climate change, and is internationally known for his contribution to agroecosystem modelling. Professor Soora Naresh Kumar is Principal Scientist at the Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture (now Division of Environment Science), ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India with over 25 years of research experience. He is leading the InfoCrop (a process based dynamic simulation model) modelling group and is involved in AgMIP since its inception in 2011 as a member of AgMIP-wheat, rice, maize and potato pilot groups. He has published over 120 research papers in high impact journals and is recognized at the Global and National level.

Part 1 North America



1.The DSSAT crop model ecosystem: Ken Boote, Univeristy of Florida, USA;
2.The USDA-SIM crop model: David Fleisher, USDA-ARS, USA;
3.The Cycles crop model: Armen Kemanian, Penn State University, USA;
4.The EPIC and APEX crop models: Jaehak Jeong, Texas A&M University, USA;
5.The SSM-Crop model: Tom Sinclair, North Carolina State University, USA;
6.The Ecosys crop model: Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois, USA;
7.The SALUS crop model: Bruno Basso, Michigan State University, USA;
8.The DNDC crop model: Bill Salas, Regrow Ag, USA;
9.The ALMANAC crop model: Jim Kiniry, USDA-ARS, USA;

Part 2 Europe



10.The STICS crop model: Benjamin Dumont, University of Liege, Belgium;
11.The SiriusQuality crop model: Pierre Martre, INRAE, France;
12.The SARRA-H /SAMARA crop model: Myriam Adam, CIRAD, France;
13.The GECROS crop model: Xinyou Yin, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;
14.The WOFOST crop model: Allard de Wit, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;
15.The LINTUL crop model: Tom Schut, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;
16.The SWAP crop model: Iwan Supit, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;
17.The SIMPLACE crop and ecosystem management model: Frank Ewert, University of Bonn, Germany;
18.The MONICA and HERMES crop models: Claas Nendel, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany;
19.The AquaCrop model: Dirk Raes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;
20.The Daisy crop model: Kiril Manevski, Aarhus University, Denmark;

Part 3 Asia and the Pacific



21.The InfoCrop model: Soora Naresh Kumar, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India;
22.The CropGrow model: Yan Zhu, Nanjiang Agricultural University, China;