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Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu

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Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu




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Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025


Success StoryNDVI Can Be Wrong



NDVI Can Be Wrong

Author: John Grove

Planning Unit: Plant and Soil Sciences

Major Program: Grains

Outcome: Initial Outcome

In 2022 I gave a presentation where I showed that sensor Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI) values could result in an erroneous diagnosis of the causal nutrient deficiency. In early September of 2023 I was contacted by Darrin Malone, certified crop advisor/marketing specialist with AMVAC Corp. Mr. Malone had received a photo of one of my slides and was interested in a succinct explanation of the point. When I explained that the NDVI sensor sensed canopy color and extent, but could not distinguish amongst any nutrient deficiency (nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur) that could cause either color or extent to be insufficient without ground-truthing, he immediately understood the agronomy behind my position. He no longer recommends NDVI sensing for nutrient deficiency diagnosis/fertilizer recommendation without independent corroboration by plant tissue analysis.






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