Coupling field monitoring with crop growth modelling provides detailed insights on yield gaps at field level : A case study on ware potato production in the Netherlands

Context: Yield gap analyses are useful to assess and benchmark the productivity of cropping systems. Often such analyses are performed at higher aggregation levels. As a result, these studies lack the detail to explain yield gaps at field level and hence make it difficult to translate findings into precise recommendations to farmers and extensionists. Objective: This study provides a detailed approach for yield gap assessments at field level through coupling frequent field monitoring in farmers’ fields with crop growth modelling. We used ware potato production in the Netherlands as a case to s... Mehr ...