Division of Agronomy

64th Meeting of the Society of Agronomy in Göttingen

06 October 2023: In the first week of October 2023, the 64th meeting of the Society of Agronomy took place at University of Göttingen. For the 240 participants there were many opportunities for scientific exchange and networking during these intensive three days. The general topic of this year's conference was "DIGITAL TOOLS, BIG DATA, MODELING AND SENSING METHODS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND CLIMATE SMART CROP AND GRASSLAND SYSTEMS". The program focused on the important role that digitization plays regarding the development of a sustainable crop production, which is caught between food production, climate change and nature conservation. The plenary lectures addressed, for example, indoor farming or the use of artificial intelligence in crop production.

A total of 60 talks were contributed, which were integrated into 12 parallel sessions on the following topics: Grassland, Nitrogen Cycle, Nutrient Management / Carbon Cycle, Modeling, Soil management / Roots, Remote Sensing, Irrigation / Drought, Controlled and field experimentation - G×E×M, Adaptation to heat and drought, Crop protection / Biotic stress, Biodiversity and Precision farming. In the auditorium of the ZHG, it was in addition possible to discuss about more than 130 presented posters from all topics.

One of the highlights of the meeting was the conference dinner, which took place in the new research greenhouse of the Faculty of Agriculture. The greenhouse is nearing completion and will soon be ready with modern technologies for experiments on issues related to plant production. The conference concluded with an excursion to the experimental farm Reinshof of the University of Göttingen and to the experimental field of the Institute for Sugar Beet Research in Harste. During this excursion to Reinshof, there was the opportunity to present the field trials TRUESOIL and INFLUX which are conducted by the Division of Agronomy.

To promote young scientists, the Ernst Klapp Future Prize for the best presentation by a young scientist is awarded at each meeting of the Society of Crop Science. Among the 5 applicants, Martin Mittermayer from the Technical University of Munich (Chair of Organic Farming and Crop Production Systems) was chosen as this year's winner with his presentation "Sensor- and satellite-based analysis of spatial variability of soil and plant parameters and consequences for crop production".
In addition, a jury from the working group Young Crop Science selected the best of the 132 posters. The Poster Award was given to Paulina Englert (University of Göttingen, Department of Crop Sciences, Division Agronomy) for her contribution titled "Spatial and Temporal Variability of Nitrous Oxide Fluxes in a German Crop Rotation".

A big thank you goes to the whole team of the Division of Agronomy for the great organization of the meeting and the strong effort during the conference week! The conference will be held every two years now and the venue for the 65th meeting of the German Society of Crop Science in 2025 will be Halle (Saale).

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The participants of the conference in the lecture building at the central campus.