Department Seminar - Dr. Laila Puntel, Department of Agronomy & Horticulture
From Plot to On-Farm Scale: Application of Digital Ag Technologies to Improve Crop Management
3:00 pm –
4:00 pm
Online Room: Email Alison for Zoom link
Contact:
Alison Reckeway, areckewey2@unl.edu
Abstract
Due to the diversity in soils, weather and cropping systems, Nebraska provides great opportunities for testing and advancing digital agriculture technologies to improve agriculture input use efficiency. Dr. Puntel will discuss her on-going research focused on the use of digital agriculture technologies including the use of cropping systems modeling, crop and soil sensing, and precision ag technologies at the plot and field scale. She will discuss challenges and opportunities associated with the analysis of big-data from agriculture fields and present some of the techniques she has been using to translate the use of big-data into practical decision support tools.
Dr. Puntel joined the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture in July 2019 as an assistant professor in soil fertility and a precision ag specialist. She has a research, extension and teaching appointment. Originally from Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Puntel grew up in a productive corn, soybean, wheat and barley region. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in agriculture engineering from the National University of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Master of Science degree and doctoral degree in crop production and physiology from Iowa State University. Before joining UNL, Puntel co-funded and worked in a Precision Ag and Soil Testing Lab consulting business for six years (Clarion, Nueve de Julio, Bs As, Argentina) and worked for almost a year at an Ag Tech Company (CiBo Technologies, Cambridge, MA) as a Crop Scientist and Modeler.
Puntel is currently working on crop modeling and sensor-based technologies to guide crop nutrient management using precision ag technologies. She collaborates with Project SENSE team and Digital Ag Extension at UNL.
Due to the diversity in soils, weather and cropping systems, Nebraska provides great opportunities for testing and advancing digital agriculture technologies to improve agriculture input use efficiency. Dr. Puntel will discuss her on-going research focused on the use of digital agriculture technologies including the use of cropping systems modeling, crop and soil sensing, and precision ag technologies at the plot and field scale. She will discuss challenges and opportunities associated with the analysis of big-data from agriculture fields and present some of the techniques she has been using to translate the use of big-data into practical decision support tools.
Dr. Puntel joined the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture in July 2019 as an assistant professor in soil fertility and a precision ag specialist. She has a research, extension and teaching appointment. Originally from Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Puntel grew up in a productive corn, soybean, wheat and barley region. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in agriculture engineering from the National University of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Master of Science degree and doctoral degree in crop production and physiology from Iowa State University. Before joining UNL, Puntel co-funded and worked in a Precision Ag and Soil Testing Lab consulting business for six years (Clarion, Nueve de Julio, Bs As, Argentina) and worked for almost a year at an Ag Tech Company (CiBo Technologies, Cambridge, MA) as a Crop Scientist and Modeler.
Puntel is currently working on crop modeling and sensor-based technologies to guide crop nutrient management using precision ag technologies. She collaborates with Project SENSE team and Digital Ag Extension at UNL.