Project Summary
The Dashboard for Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management Project (DAWN) Extension team is developing a "forecasting and risk analysis system to provide farmers and water managers across the Corn Belt with the most relevant and reliable information for farm-level decision-making." The Extension team advises DAWN's data support, educational programs, and stakeholder engagement. MCAP is helping the project team to identify, categorize, and summarize stakeholder science needs for agriculture forecasts in a changing climate.
Through literature review and document analysis we helped to summarize stakeholder science needs with the goal of improving the usability of the DAWN dashboard while also working to identify stakeholder perspectives that have already been shared across the project region in an effort to reduce stakeholder fatigue.
Learn more in the our publication, Assessing stakeholder climate data needs for farm-level decision-making in the U.S. Corn Belt.
Project Team
Suzi Clark
Post-doctoral Associate
Heidi Roop
Director
Melissa Kenney
Director of Research & Knowledge Initiatives,
University of Minnesota
Institute on the Environment
Felix Wolfinger
Research Scientist
University of Minnesota
Core work areas
Support
This project is part of "Dashboard for Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management" (DAWN) and supported by the United States Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Grant number: 2020-68012-31674. Support also comes from the University of Minnesota AGREETT program.