FRAMS Project - Provide technical expertise as subcontractor to Agrilogic, Inc to design and develop a Forage Risk Assessment and Management System (FRAMS), a decision support system to help private land owners deal with the uncertainty of buy, feed, or sell livestock trade-off management options. 2006-2010
PESTMAN Project – A USDA RMA Partnership project to design and develop a decision support system for selection of technically appropriate chemical and mechanical brush and weed management alternatives. The program is linked with an economic component that allows users to assess the net present value and internal rate of return of selected technologies applied in their specific environment. 2007 - 20010
PASTURE RANGE FORAGE Project – A USDA RMA project to develop an insurance program for forage-based producers (range, pasture and haylands). The project involves design and development of two methodologies, one utilizing long-term NOAA weather data and the other temperature constrained EROS NDVI data to index deviation from normal forage production as bases for indemnities. The project is now being piloted in ( ) states. 2005-2010.
REGION “L”, TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD Project – Provide an assessment of alternative brush management technologies that have potential to increase water yield and the expected costs and benefits of the application of these technologies in the Edwards aquifer above Canyon Lake, Texas. 2008 – 2009.