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U2U Decision Support Tool Educational Resources
The U2U Educational Resources page includes everything you need to quickly learn about and disseminate U2U decision support tools.
Using Useful to Usable (U2U) Tools for an Introductory Agronomy Course (Purdue University)
This lab assignment was constructed to provide introductory Agronomy students with a knowledge base of farming technology and available agricultural decision-making tools.
Videos & Presentations
2017 AMS Annual Meeting
January 2017
An Agro-hydro-climatic dataset for the U.S. Corn Belt: Development, Validations and Applications
Development and Evaluation of a Simple Crop Model for WRF Seasonal Forecast Improvement
AMS Conference on Applied Climatology
January 2016
Evaluating an Interdisciplinary Effort to Create and Promote Ag/Climate Decision Support Tools
Webinar: Lessons Learned about Selling Conservation
January 2015
Slides only (pdf) | View webinar
Dr. Linda Prokopy provides a review of research on farmer adoption of behavior and provides examples of how the U2U project is using social science to improve decision support tool design, uptake and evaluation.
Symposium: Improving Climate Information for Midwestern Crop Production
November 2015
The U2U team hosted a special session at the ASA-CSSA-SSSA annual meeting focused on the Useful to Usable project. In total there are 8 presentations available in this session.
Factsheets
U2U Press Releases
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March 7, 2017
U2U program wrapping up, brought useful climate tools to farmers -
Sept 2, 2016
Useful to Usable Launches Irrigation Investment DST -
October 16, 2015
Useful to Usable Corn SplitN Decision Support Tool Now Available in All 12 Corn Belt States -
August 26, 2015
Research: Existing crop models can forecast yield in uncertain climate conditions -
August 10, 2015
Newly Released Atlas Provides Insight into Corn Belt Farmers’ Climate Beliefs and Behaviors Based on Specific Watersheds -
March 23, 2015
New U2U tool helps farmers understand impact of global climate patterns -
Dec 4, 2014
Online tool helps farmers with nitrogen application decisions -
Dec 3, 2014
U2U tool helps farmers with nitrogen application decisions -
Dec 2, 2014
Free online tool helps growers with nitrogen application decisions -
Nov 11, 2014
Study: Farmers and scientists divided over climate change -
Feb 24, 2014
New Climate Tools Help Farmers and Advisors Make Informed Decisions -
Mar 18, 2013
Survey Examines Ag Advisors' Use of Climate Information -
Mar 5, 2013
National Initiatives Gauge Farmer Perceptions of Climate Change
In the News
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April 20, 2017
New climate data assessment tools for US grain farmers (Feed Navigator) -
April 3, 2017
The U2U Corn Growing Degree Day tool: Tracking Corn Growth Across the US Corn Belt (UNL Crop Watch) -
March 14, 2017
Provided new tools for farmers, six-year climate research program ends (Agri-News) -
March 11, 2017
Researchers help climate scientists, farmers connect (Pal-Item) -
March 10, 2017
U2U makes data more accessible to farmers (OCJ)
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Recent Publications
U2U Special Issue Published in Climate Risk Management
Ten new publications featuring the U2U project were published in the March 2017 issue of the journal Climate Risk Management. Papers in this U2U-focused issue are open access and highlight new social science analysis on farmers’ and advisors’ perceptions of climate risks, detailed information about our decision tools and project evaluation methods, and more. Read Special Issue
Selected Extension Publications
Church, S., Haigh, T., Widhalm, M., Prokopy, L., Arbuckle, J., Hobbs, J., Knoot, T., Knutson, C., Loy, A., Mase, A., Mcguire, J., Morton, L., Tyndall, J. (2015). Farmer Perspectives on Agricultural Practices, Information, and Weather Variability in the Corn Belt: A Statistical Atlas, Volume 2. Purdue University Research Repository. doi:10.4231/R79W0CFS (View Publication)
