Publications

Maxwell, B. D., & Duff, H. (2024). Increasing the scope and scale of agroecology in the Northern Great Plains [Commentary]. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2024.133.0XX

Loewen, S. and B.D. Maxwell. 2024. Optimizing cover crop seeding rates and following cash crops to maximize net return in organic grain farming. Field Crop Research 318, 109593.

Loewen, S. and B.D. Maxwell. 2024. Site Specific Weed Management on Organic Grain Farms using Variable Rate Seeding and Data Driven Simulation. Weed Research 64:1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/wre.12669

Duff, H., D. Debinski and B.D. Maxwell. 2024. Ecological Refugia Enhance Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Crop Production in Agroecosystems. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 359: 108751 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108751

Duff, H., D. Debinski and B.D. Maxwell. 2024. Landscape context affects patch habitat contributions to biodiversity in agroecosystems. Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4879

Hegedus, P.B., B.D. Maxwell, J. Sheppard, S. Loewen, H. Duff, G. Morales-Luna and A. Peerlinck. 2023. Towards a Low-Cost Comprehensive Process for On-Farm Precision Experimentation and Analysis. Agriculture, 13(524), 1–20. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13030524

Hegedus, P.B., S. Ewing, C. Jones and B.D. Maxwell. 2023. Using spatially variable nitrogen application and crop responses to evaluate crop nitrogen use efficiency. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-023-10263-3

Morales, G., J. Sheppard, P. Hegedus, B. Maxwell. 2023. Improved Yield Prediction of Winter Wheat Using a Novel Two-Dimensional Deep Regression Neural Network Trained via Remote Sensing. Sensors 23:489.

Hegedus, P.B. and B.D. Maxwell. 2022. Rationale for field-specific on-farm precision experimentation. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment. 338(2022) 108088

Hegedus, P.B., T. Mieno and B.D. Maxwell. 2022. Assessing performance of empirical models for forecasting crop responses to variable fertilizer rates using on-farm precision experimentation. Precision Agriculture. 23: (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-022-09968-2

Lauffenburger, Z.H., M. Maneta, K. Cobourn, K. Jencso, B. Chaffin, A. Crockett; B.D. Maxwell, J. Kimball, 2022. A hydro-economic analysis of end-of-century climate projections on agricultural land and water use, production, and revenues in the U.S. Northern Rockies and Great Plains. J Hydrology: Regional Studies 42:101127.

Morales, G., Sheppard, J., Peerlinck, A., Hegedus, P., & Maxwell, B. (2022). Generation of Site-specific Nitrogen Response Curves for Winter Wheat using Deep Learning. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Precision Agriculture. Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Duff, H., P. Hegedus, S. Loewen, T. Bass and B.D. Maxwell. 2022. Precision Agroecology. Sustainability

14(1), 106.

Lacoste M., S. Cook, M. McNee, D. Gale, J. Ingram, V. Bellon-Maurel, T. MacMillan, R. Sylvester-Bradley, D.l Kindred, R. Bramley, N. Tremblay, L. Longchamps, L. Thompson, J. Ruiz, F.O. García, B. Maxwell, T. Griffin, T. Oberthür, C. Huyghe, W. Zhang, J. McNamara and A. Hall. 2022. On-Farm Experimentation: transforming innovation pathways. Nature Food 3:11–18.

Morales, G., & Sheppard, J. (2021). Two-dimensional deep regression for early yield prediction of winter wheat. Proceedings of the SPIE Future Sensing Technologies Conference. 11914, 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2612209

Maneta, Marco P., K. Cobourn, John S. Kimball, M. He, N. L. Silverman, B. C. Chaffin, S. Ewing, X. Ji, and B. Maxwell. 2020. A satellite-driven hydro-economic model to support agricultural water resources management. Environmental Modelling & Software 134: 104836

Bullock, D.S., M. Boerngen, H. Tao, B. Maxwell, J.D. Luck, L. Shiratsuchi, L. Puntel, and N.F. Martin. 2019. The Data-Intensive Farm Management Project: Changing Agronomic Research through on-farm precision experimentation. Agronomy Journal 3(6) 2736-2746.

Wurster, P.M., M. Maneta, S. Begueria, K. Cobourn, B. Maxwell, N. Silverman, S. Ewing, K. Jensco, P. Gardner, J. Kimball, Z. Holden, J. Ji, S. M. Vicente-Serrano. 2020. Characterizing the impact of climatic and price anomalies on agrosystems in the northwest United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology  280: 107778

Tao, H., J. Boll, T.F. Morris, D.S. Bullock, and B.D. Maxwell. 2019. Farmers’ networks for farmer-centric collaborative research and extension. Crops and Soils, Sept.-Oct. 2019. doi:10.2134/cs2019.52.0503

He, M., J.S. Kimball, Y. Yi, S. Running, K. Guan, K. Jensco, B. Maxwell, M. Maneta. 2019. Impacts of 2017 flash drought in the US Northern Plains informed by satellite-based evapotranspiration and solar-induced fluorescence. Environmental Research Letters.  14(7), 074019.

Peerlinck, A., Sheppard, J., Pastorino, J., & Maxwell, B. (2019, June). Optimal Design of Experiments for Precision Agriculture Using a Genetic Algorithm. In 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (pp. 1838-1845). IEEE.

He, Mingzhu, J.S. Kimball, M. Maneta, B.D. Maxwell, A. Moreno, S. Begueria, X. Wu. 2019. Regional crop gross primary productivity and yield estimation using fused Landsat-MODIS data. Remote Sensing. 10(3), 372-393; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10030372

Maxwell, B.D., P. Hegedus, P. Davis, A. Bekkerman, R. Payn, J. Sheppard, N. Silverman, C. Izurieta. 2018. Can optimization associated with on-farm experimentation using site-specific technologies improve producer management decisions? Proc. Intr. Precision Ag. Congress, Montreal, CA. https://www.ispag.org/Proceedings

Lawrence, P. G., B. D. Maxwell, L. J. Rew, C. Ellis and A. Bekkerman. 2018. Vulnerability of dryland agricultural regimes to economic and climatic change. Ecology and Society 23 (1):34. [online] URL: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss1/art34/

Lawrence, P.G., L.J. Rew and B.D. Maxwell. 2015. A probabilistic Bayesian framework for progressively updating site-specific recommendations. J. Precision Ag. 15: 275-296.

Lawrence, P.G., L.J. Rew and B.D. Maxwell. 2014. A probabilistic framework for site-specific adaptive management under multiple uncertainties. Proceedings International Society of Precision Agriculture Conf., 12: Sacramento, California, July 20-23, 2014.

Maxwell, B.D. and L.C. Luschei. 2005. Justification for site-specific weed management based on ecology and economics. Weed Science 53:221-227.

Luschei, E.C., L.R. Van Wychen, B.D. Maxwell, A.J. Bussan, D. Buschena and D. Goodman. 2001. Implementing and conducting on-farm weed research with the use of GPS. Weed Sci. 49: 536-542.