The IEM participates with a crop systems modelling effort within the ISU Department of Agronomy along with ISU Extension known as "Forecast and Assessment of Cropping sysTemS" (FACTS). The project takes intensive field measurements during the growing season and uses the data along with weather forecasts to produce forecasts and hindcasts of important variables like yield, soil moisture, and nitrogen usage. The IEM's role is to collect weather observations and produce growing season forecasts generated by NOAA models. The project website has a number of interesting diagnostics of the current crop condition over Iowa.

Visit the FACTS Website

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