Climate forecasts for corn producer decision making

Earth Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1-8

  Takle, Eugene S ^a   Anderson, Christopher J ^a   Andresen, Jeffrey ^b   Angel, James ^c   Elmore, Roger W ^a   Gramig, Benjamin M ^d   Guinan, Patrick ^e   Hilberg, Steven ^f   Kluck, Doug ^g   Massey, Raymond ^e   Niyogi, Dev ^h   Schneider, Jeanne M ⁱ   Shulski, Martha D ^j   Todey, Dennis ^k   Widhalm, Melissa ^d  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g National Weather Service Central Region   (United States)

^h PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ USDA ARS GRAZINGLANDS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^k South Dakota State University   (United States)

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Author keywords

Agriculture forecast; Agriculture systems; Climate forecast; Decision calendar; Forecasting; Seasonal forecast

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DECISION MAKING;

AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS; ANNUAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATE INFORMATION; DECISION CALENDAR; IMPROVED FORECAST; INFORMED DECISION; SEASONAL FORECASTS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROFITABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84898911384     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2013EI000541.1     Document Type: Article

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