Read more about the prototype tool we published as part of our ongoing work to improve the use of environmental data in agricultural research.

Fertilizers are essential for boosting crop yields and increasing farm productivity. However, excessive use of fertilizers not only incurs high costs for farmers but also leads to harmful runoff that pollutes waterways.

One of the big frustrations in using computing to solve large, multidisciplinary challenges is managing data sets from different disciplines.

We are delighted to announce that we have just released the GEMS Grid code library, where the code is under the open source Apache 2.0 license.

I often have students come to me saying “I’m passionate about the agri-food sector and I want to do data science.

Others on the GEMS team will be blogging about all the great things being done with GEMS - in other words - how GEMS is being used and how it is making a difference.