Welcome to the 22nd ISTRO International Conference, Dublin. ISTRO promotes engagement among scientists working with and researching soil tillage, field traffic and their relationship with soil, environment, land use and crop production. The conference is the opportunity for the community to meet each other, share their research, see its application in practice and to stimulate new ideas.
The theme of the 22nd ISTRO Interaction Conference is ‘Soil and tillage and the transition to digital agriculture.’ Superficially, agriculture is largely the same as it always has been with machines and energy used to till, sow, maintain and harvest crops for food. However, over the last few years there has been a rapid and significant introduction of digital data, computers, networks, connections sensors and models that are beginning to change how agriculture works, the skills needed by the farming industry and research required now and in the future. The conference will examine where we are, and the pathway forward for soil and tillage in the age of digital agriculture.
The conference will be held on the beautiful parkland campus of University College Dublin in Ireland’s capital city, Dublin. Ireland is a small yet vibrant country with a long history of research and education in agriculture. UCD is a global university with faculty and students from almost all countries in the world. This will be a wonderful opportunity to be part of life on campus for a few days, while enjoying the delights of the city.
Abstracts will be accepted under any theme associated with ISTRO. Please select one of the following themes, but if your work is not a good fit, you will still be able to submit and the organisers will assign it to a suitable theme. The themes are:
- Agro-ecosystems and biodiversity
- Impacts of agriculture
- Sensors
- Digital agriculture
- Agriculture 4.0
- Climate change
- Soil tillage
- Machinery systems
- Conservation agriculture
- Characterisation of soil structure
- Soil-plant-root systems
- Nutrient management
TRAVEL GRANTS
ISTRO will provide a number of travel grants to attend the conference in Dublin. Applicants must submit an abstract to be eligible for one of these grants. Full details can be found in the Abstract Submission Portal.