Dr James (Jess) Lowenberg-DeBoer

Jess is Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director of the Site Specific Management Center (SSMC) at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. His work focuses on the economics of new technology in agriculture. His current research concentrates on precision agriculture and ranges from the farm level profitability of site specific management to the long run implications of precision farming for the structure of agriculture and for agricultural policy.

His current research includes development of statistical techniques for making better use of yield monitor data in on-farm trials, methods for estimation of crop response curves from spatial data and, in collaboration with Institute for Agricultural Technology (INTA) of Argentina, determining the potential returns to variable rate nitrogen on corn.