Kristin Persson

If we know how different environmental factors vary in time and space, and how our crops respond to this variation, we can better adapt management practices to the plants' needs —we can harvest more where conditions are good, while avoiding spreading nutrients and chemicals where they are not needed. This is called precision agriculture.

My research is about developing data, knowledge and tools for a more resource-efficient crop production.

MV0214 Soil management in crop production

Some ongoing projects:

Tools for the agronomic detective

Is a quarter of the arable land fertilized blindly?

Associate Professor in Soil Science with a focus on Precision Agriculture and Pedometrics (SLU; 2015)

Ph.D. in Environmental Science with a specialization in Plant Physiology (University of Gothenburg; 2006)

B. Sc. in Biology (University of Gothenburg; 1998)

Main supervisor for Karl Adler, SLU (dissertation 2022).  Thesis: Digital soil mapping and portable X-ray fluorescence prediction of cadmium, copper and zinc concentrations as decision support for crop production

Co-supervisor for Sanna Bergqvist, SLU. PhD project: Using sensor technologies to assess forage crops in both research and farm settings. 

 Publikationer i Google Scholar

Here is published open R code for internal functionality in decision support systems for precision agriculture:

https://github.com/lads-slu