Q & A with UGA Grad Student, Amrit Pokhrel
A master’s student of crop physiology and integrative precision agriculture, Amrit Pokhrel studied plant science in his native Nepal before enrolling at UGA-Tifton.
Precision Farming Technologies for Sustainable Egg Productions
Poultry production plays a critical role in feeding the increasing world’s population with affordable protein (i.e., chicken and eggs). The United States is currently the world’s largest broiler producer and 2nd largest egg producer due to continuous innovation in animal breeding, nutrition management, environmental control, and disease prevention, etc. However, US poultry and egg farms …
The Farm of Tomorrow, Imagined and Realized – from the Georgia Research Alliance
Even a trained eye can’t discern all that’s happening inside a poultry grow-out house, home to tens of thousands of broiler chickens. The birds bob-walk about, pecking food from dispensers and buck-buck-bucking in conversation. Everything looks as you’d expect.
UGA Ph.D. Student Uses Modeling to Quantify Flash Drought
Flash drought is the rapid onset or intensification of relatively short-term agricultural drought. Learn how Crop and Soil Sciences Ph.D. student, Jasia Jannat (advisor: Dr. Vellidis), is quantifying its effects in the Southeast.
Collaborative Equipment Grants Program – Call for Applications
The Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture (IIPA) is pleased to solicit applications for a new Collaborative Equipment grants program, which has a closing date of 1 March 2023. Proposal budgets are expected to range between $15,000 and $75,000 and are for equipment only, i.e., no other budget categories are allowable. All funds must be fully …
UGA Extension helps farmers improve efficiency, save 100 million gallons of water
Over the last few decades, water use-related disagreements between Georgia and its surrounding states have held the spotlight in the Southeast. Legal battles have been fought, and although Georgia won the most recent lawsuit, the court’s decision stressed that Georgia shares the responsibility to conserve that most precious, non-renewable resource on which we all depend …
IIPA awards first seed grants
By David Mitchell UGA’s Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture (IIPA) has awarded eight seed grants to fund initial research for projects at the convergence of agriculture, engineering, computing and other related areas of study. The grants, the first of their kind from IIPA, an interdisciplinary research unit launched in early 2022, follow a strategic push …
Take Five with Faculty: Simer Virk
Assistant Professor Simer Virk grew up on a small family farm that ran on manual labor. Now a precision agriculture specialist at UGA-Tifton, Virk is passionate about getting the right technology into growers’ hands. Tell us about your academic or career path. How did you get to your current position? I did my undergraduate …