Assistant Professor Gil DePaula published an interdisciplinary article in the most recent issue of Frontiers of Agronomy. DePaula co-authored "Smart connected farms and networked farmers to improve crop production, sustainability and profitability" with researchers from Iowa State University, the University of Vermont, Iowa Soybean Association, Missouri University of Science and Technology, the University of Kentucky, the University of Missouri, and the University of Delaware.

The article provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in smart connected farms, including the advances in engineering, computer sciences, data sciences, social sciences and economics including data privacy, sharing and technology adoption.

DePaula also had an article "Comparing Market Instruments for Forest Conservation in Brazil using Farm-level Census Data" accepted for publication at Environment and Development Economics.

Smart connected farms and networked farmers to improve crop production, sustainability and profitability
Asheesh K. Singh Behzad J. Balabaygloo, Barituka Bekee, Samuel W. Blair, Suzanne Fey, Fateme Fotouhi, Ashish Gupta, Amit Jha, Jorge C. Martinez-Palomares, Kevin Menke, Aaron Prestholt, Vishesh K. Tanwar, Xu Tao, Anusha Vangala, Matthew E. Carroll, Sajal K. Das, Guilherme DePaula, Peter Kyveryga, Soumik Sarkar, Michelle Segovia, Simone Silvestri, Corinne Valdivia
Frontier of Agronomy 6(2024)
doi: 10.3389/fagro.2024.1410829