Current crop models

State-of-the-art and future developments

Contributions by Emeritus Professor Ken Boote, Dr David Fleisher, Professor Armen Kemanian, Dr Jaehak Jeong, Professor Tom Sinclair, Dr Kaiyu Guan, Professor Bruno Basso, Dr Bill Salas, Dr Jim Kiniry, Professor Benjamin Dumont, Dr Pierre Martre, Dr Myriam Adam, Dr Xinyou Yin, Dr Allard de Wit, Dr Tom Schut, Dr Iwan Supit, Professor Frank Ewert, Professor Claas Nendel, Emeritus Professor Dirk Raes, Dr Kiril Manevski, Professor Soora Naresh Kumar, Professor Yan Zhu Edited by Professor Gerrit Hoogenboom

Publication date:

Q3 2025

Length of book:

600 pages

Publisher

Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing

Dimensions:

229x152mm
6x9"

Whilst crop models have made significant progress in recent years, different models still diverge and struggle to predict the complex effects of genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables in optimising crop production in the face of climate change.

Current crop models: State-of-the-art and future developments provides a comprehensive overview of the major crop models and the ways they address these challenges. The book explores the development of major crop models such as DSSAT, how variables such as crop variety and genetic differences are being addressed, recent model improvements and future model enhancements, as well as examples of current applications to improve crop production.

The book builds on a successful earlier volume published by Burleigh Dodds Science: Advances in crop modelling for a more sustainable agriculture (2019).

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;