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item The Bushland, Texas, alfalfa, soybean, sunflower, and winter wheat evapotranspiration, growth, and yield dataset collections (Dec 2025)
item Microbial community responses to alternative management regulate soil organic carbon storage in agroecosystems experiencing irrigation retirement (Nov 2025)
item Directional Climatology and Precipitation on the Southern High Plains of North America (Nov 2025)
item Precision irrigation management (Nov 2025)
item Reducing nitrate leaching and runoff through crop rotations in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (Sep 2025)
item Algorithms to process weighing lysimeter data (Aug 2025)
item Analysis and quality control of weighing lysimeter water storage data (Jul 2025)
item Quantifying temporal distortions of artificial UAV crop canopy temperature measurements (Jun 2025)
item Increased irrigation could mitigate future warming-induced maize yield losses in the Ogallala Aquifer (Jun 2025)
item Advancing sustainable water use across the agricultural lifecycle in the United States (Jun 2025)
item Impacts of change in multiple cropping index of rice on hydrological components and grain production in the Zishui River Basin, Southern China (May 2025)
item Simulating vertical soil nitrate migration induced by freeze-thaw cycles (May 2025)
item Wheat crop water use in semi-arid and Mediterranean environments (Version V1) [Data set] (Apr 2025)
item Organic matter characteristics and mineralization in ironstone gravel from two Plinthic soils in the Coastal Plain of Georgia (Apr 2025)
item On the differential effects of salinity and sodicity on aeolian erosion dynamics and particulate emissions (Mar 2025)
item Waveform analysis for short time domain reflectometry (TDR) probes to obtain calibrated moisture measurements from partial vertical sensor insertions (Mar 2025)
item Effect of early and late post emergence herbicides on weed suppression, crop injury, and biomass yield of industrial hemp in semiarid conditions (Mar 2025)
item Effect of planting dates and seeding densities on growth, physiology, and yield of industrial hemp (Mar 2025)
item Comparing evapotranspiration estimations using crop model-data fusion and satellite data-based models with lysimetric observations: Implications for irrigation scheduling (Feb 2025)
item Assessing the impacts of extreme precipitation projections on Haihe Basin hydrology using an enhanced SWAT model (Feb 2025)
item The Bushland, Texas, maize evapotranspiration, growth, and yield dataset collection (Feb 2025)
item The economic costs of wind erosion in the United States (Jan 2025)
item Texas - Ogallala Summit Whitepaper (Jan 2025)
item Unraveling edaphic, environmental, and management drivers of soil microbial communities via ester-linked fatty acid methyl esters using a multilocation agroecosystem study (Jan 2025)
item Impacts of land use changes on water conservation in the Songhuajiang River basin in Northeast China using the SWAT model (Nov 2024)
item Comparison of infrared thermometry and soil water derived stress indices and crop ET in cotton (Oct 2024)
item Spreadsheet for lysimeter data analysis (Sep 2024)
item Enhanced freeze-thaw cycle altered the simulations of groundwater dynamics in a heavily irrigated basin in the temporate region of China (Aug 2024)
item Infrared thermometer data at the weighing lysimeters at Bushland, Texas (Aug 2024)
item Improving hydrological modeling to close the gap between elevated CO2 concentration and crop response: implications for water resources (Aug 2024)
item Weighing lysimeter data for the Bushland, Texas, sorghum datasets (Aug 2024)
item Conservative management practices and climatic variability interactions on soil biological health in semiarid regions (Aug 2024)
item Evaluation of three irrigation application systems for watermelon production in the Texas High Plains (Aug 2024)
item Ester-linked fatty acid methyl esters respond to soil conservation management in a multi-regional study across the United States (Aug 2024)
item Assessing the impacts of long-term climate change on hydrology and yields of diversified crops in the Texas High Plains (Aug 2024)
item Building databases to calibrate alfalfa crop models: Paving the way for an advanced yield forecasting tool (Jul 2024)
item Assessing the response mechanisms of elevated CO2 concentration on various forms of nitrogen losses in the Golden Corn Belt (Jul 2024)
item Aquifer health and irrigation prospects in the Southern High Plains, Southeast, and Mid Atlantic (Jul 2024)
item Cover crop grazing effects on soil properties in no-tillage dryland cropping systems in the central Great Plains (Jul 2024)
item Climate-informed management of irrigated cotton in Western Kansas to reduce groundwater withdrawals (Jun 2024)
item Soil hydraulic properties - Martin County (Jun 2024)
item Irrigation response, water use, and lint yield of upland cotton cultivars (Apr 2024)
item Utilization of cotton gin waste biochars for agronomic benefits in soils (Apr 2024)
item Weighing lysimeter data for the Bushland, Texas, cotton datasets (Apr 2024)
item Three decades of evapotranspiration (ET) measurement - the Bushland large weighing lysimeters (Mar 2024)
item A comparison on soil conservation management effects on biological soil fertility across a climate gradient in the Great Plains (Mar 2024)
item Identifying the best tillage system to maintain soil properties and crop yields after Conservation Reserve Program grassland conversion (Mar 2024)
item Comparing impacts of corn residue removal and amelioration practices on soil properties after 3, 6, and 10 years (Feb 2024)
item Evaluation of a wireless solar powered personal weather station (Jan 2024)
item Wind erodibility and particulate matter emissions of dry salt-affected soils under diverse atmospheric humidity conditions (Jan 2024)
item Reference evapotranspiration estimation using genetic algorithm-optimized machine learning models and standardized Penman-Monteith Equation in a highly advective environment (Dec 2023)
item Intercropping forage sorghum with sunnhemp at different seeding rates to improve forage production (Dec 2023)
item Field evaluation of conventional and downhole TDR soil water sensors for irrigation scheduling in a clay loam soil (Dec 2023)
item Soil water conservation for dryland farming (Nov 2023)
item A sensor-based decision support system for variable rate irrigation systems (Nov 2023)
item Mechanisms of cover crop-mediated soil carbon storage in a semi-arid irrigated cropping system (Nov 2023)
item Field evaluation of conventional and downhole TDR soil water sensors for irrigation scheduling in a clay loam soil (Nov 2023)
item Response of soil microbial communities to different cover crops options for semi-arid regions (Nov 2023)
item Tracing spatial and temporal dynamics of post-fire sediment transport and redistribution using multiple rare earth element tracers: Insights into grassland management (Nov 2023)
item Evaluation of mobile drip irrigation and irrigation technologies for watermelon production and water use efficiency in the Texas High Plains (Oct 2023)
item Microbial community composition response to soil management across climates (Oct 2023)
item Comparision of weighing lysimeter ET with a two-source energy balance model (Oct 2023)
item ET from water balance considering dewfall and frost in a semi-arid continental climate (Oct 2023)
item Lessons learned from two decades of eddy covariance and large weighing lysimeter comparisons (Oct 2023)
item Differences in crop coefficients for SDI and sprinkler irrigation (Oct 2023)
item 30+ years of ET, energy and water balance, weather, crop growth, and yield data in a semi-arid, continental climate (Oct 2023)
item Improving water productivity in cotton using mobile drip irrigation technology (Oct 2023)
item Irrigation technology for climate change adaptation (Oct 2023)
item Modeling streamflow response under changing environment using a modified SWAT model with enhanced representation of CO2 effects (Oct 2023)
item Spatiotemporal economic analysis of corn and wheat production in the Texas High Plains (Oct 2023)
item Data quality control for stationary infrared thermometers viewing crops (Oct 2023)
item Assessing the influence of strategic tillage on crop yields and soil properties in dryland no-tillage systems (Aug 2023)
item Simulation of root zone soil water dynamics under cotton-silverleaf nightshade interactions in drip-irrigated cotton (Aug 2023)
item Agronomic calendars for the Bushland, Texas sorghum datasets (Aug 2023)
item Growth and yield data for the Bushland, Texas cotton datasets (Aug 2023)
item Growth and yield data for the Bushland, Texas, sorghum datasets (Aug 2023)
item Soil health assessment to evaluate conservation practices in semi-arid cotton systems at producer sites scale (Aug 2023)
item Agronomic calendars for the Bushland, Texas cotton datasets (Aug 2023)
item Identifying soil health indicators linked to essential functions for water limited regions (Aug 2023)
item Soil water content data for The Bushland, Texas large weighing lysimeter experiments (Jul 2023)
item Assessment of the sustainability of groundwater utilization and crop production under optimized irrigation strategies in the North China Plain under future climate change (Jul 2023)
item Preliminary crop coefficients and management strategies for upland cotton in the northern Texas High Plains (Jul 2023)
item The importance of dewfall and frost in semi-arid water and energy balances (Jul 2023)
item Quality assurance procedures for stationary infrared thermometers viewing crops (Jul 2023)
item The importance of reduced evaporative losses with SDI in the Central and Southern High Plains (Jul 2023)
item Toward automated irrigation management with integrated crop water stress index and spatial soil water balance (Jul 2023)
item Center pivot water allocation strategies under limited irrigation (Jun 2023)
item Does increasing diversity of small grain cropping systems improve aggregate stability and soil hydraulic properties? (Jun 2023)
item Evaluating the effects of single and integrated extreme climate events on hydrology in the Liao River Basin, China using a modified SWAT-BSR model (Jun 2023)
item Predicting soil organic carbon from loss-on-ignition across four regions of Nebraska (May 2023)
item Optimized regulated deficit irrigation for limited volumes of irrigation water and simultaneous crops, the ORDILS methodology (Apr 2023)
item Towards improved TDR soil water sensing for optimizing irrigation water management (Apr 2023)
item The Bushland, Texas, soybean datasets (Apr 2023)
item Evaluation of growth-stage-based variable deficit irrigation strategies for cotton production in the Texas High Plains (Apr 2023)
item Characterizing evaporative losses from sprinkler irrigation using large weighing lysimeters (Mar 2023)
item Sensor feedback system enables automated deficit irrigation scheduling for cotton (Mar 2023)
item Soil health assessment and management framework for water-limited environments: Examples from the Great Plains of the USA (Mar 2023)
item Forecasting of crop water stress indicators using machine learning algorithms (Feb 2023)
item Evaluating growth-stage-based variable deficit irrigation strategies for improving yield and irrigation water use efficiency of grain sorghum (Feb 2023)
item Moving from measurement to governance of shared groundwater resources (Jan 2023)
item Forage sorghum grown in a conventional wheat-grain sorghum-fallow rotation increased cropping system productivity and profitability (Jan 2023)
item Intake, growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality of feedlot lambs fed novel anthocyanin-rich corn cobs (Jan 2023)
item Stable carbon isotope discrimination of cotton burrs and seeds as a season-long integrator of crop water stress (Dec 2022)
item Texas Panhandle (Region A) regional water planning agricultural water outlook and conservation strategies (Dec 2022)
item Modeling management of continuous dryland cotton with an intervening winter wheat cover crop in a semiarid climate (Dec 2022)
item A support vector machine and image processing based approach for counting open cotton bolls and estimating lint yield from UAV imagery (Nov 2022)
item Influence of legume inclusion on greenhouse gas emissions from pasture systems in the Southern High Plains of Texas (Nov 2022)
item Conservation management practices influence soil microbial communities regardless of irrigation in Sandy loam cotton systems of the semi-arid Texas Southern High Plains (Nov 2022)
item Bushland crop growth, yield, ET, energy and water balance, and weather database: The Bushland weighing lysimeter datasets (Nov 2022)
item Soil health within transitions from irrigation to dryland management (Nov 2022)
item Methods for downhole soil water sensor calibration - complications of bulk density and water content variations (Nov 2022)
item Development and testing of a dynamic CO2 input method in SWAT for simulating long-term climate change impacts across various climatic locations (Oct 2022)
item Assessing impacts of global climate change on water and food security in the black soil region of Northeast China using an improved SWAT-CO2 model (Oct 2022)
item Effects of global climate change on the hydrological cycle and crop growth under heavily irrigated management - A comparison between CMIP5 and CMIP6 (Oct 2022)
item Applying wind erosion and air dispersion models to characterize dust hazard to highway safety at Lordsburg Playa, New Mexico, USA (Oct 2022)
item The Bushland, Texas, sunflower datasets (Oct 2022)
item Crop response to thermal stress without yield loss in irrigated maize and soybean in Nebraska (Sep 2022)
item Adaptation of MOPECO for water management decisions in the Texas High Plains (Sep 2022)
item The Bushland, Texas, winter wheat datasets (Aug 2022)
item Post-processing R tool for SWAT efficiently studying climate change impacts on hydrology, water quality, and crop growth (Aug 2022)
item Standard quality controlled research weather data - USDA-ARS, Bushland, Texas (May 2022)
item The Bushland, Texas, alfalfa datasets (Apr 2022)
item Influence of legume inclusion on greenhouse gas emissions from pasture systems in the southern high plains of Texas (Apr 2022)
item The Bushland, Texas maize for grain datasets (Apr 2022)
item Map of the llano estacado of north america (Apr 2022)
item Long-term cover crop management effects on soil properties in dryland cropping systems (Jan 2022)
item Potential genotype-based climate change adaption strategies for sustaining cotton production in the Texas High Plains: A simulation study (Aug 2021)
item Simulated efficient growth-stage-based deficit irrigation strategies for maximizing cotton yield, crop water productivity and net returns (May 2021)
item Strategic tillage effects on crop yields, soil properties, and weeds in dryland no-tillage systems (Mar 2021)
item An economic analysis on the transition to dryland production in deficit-irrigated cropping systems of the Texas High Plains (Mar 2021)
item Meta-Analysis of crop water use efficiency by irrigation system in the Texas High Plains (Sep 2020)
item Analyzing potential water conservation strategies in the Texas Panhandle (Jul 2020)
item A single tillage in a long-term no-till system on dryland crop performance (Jun 2020)
item Potential benefits of genotype-based adaptation strategies for grain sorghum production in the Texas High Plains under climate change (May 2020)
item Deep reinforcement learning-based irrigation scheduling (Mar 2020)
item Corn response to later than traditional planting dates in the Texas High Plains (Mar 2020)
item Economic feasibility of conversion to mobile drip irrigation in the Central Ogallala region (Mar 2020)
item Corn production under restricted irrigation in the Texas High Plains (Feb 2020)
item Do crop price expectations matter? An analysis of groundwater pumping decisions in Western Kansas (Jan 2020)
item Maximizing profits via irrigation timing for capacity-constrained cotton production (Dec 2019)
item Soil water extraction and use by winter wheat cultivars under limited irrigation in a semi-arid environment (Nov 2019)
item Assessing the climate change impacts on grain sorghum yield and irrigation water use under full and deficit irrigation strategies (Aug 2019)
item Productivity and profitability of four crop rotations under limited irrigation (Jul 2019)