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🌾 Farm Water Balance & Carbon Lab

A 3D field of crops responding live to irrigation, evapotranspiration demand, nitrogen fertilizer and tillage — watch yield, soil moisture and net farm carbon footprint update together.

Agronomy & Soil Physics3DModerate60 FPS💧 Water 🌍 Earth

A 3D crop field with a soil cutaway shows how irrigation, evapotranspiration demand, nitrogen fertilizer and tillage practice interact to set crop yield, root-zone moisture and a farm's net greenhouse-gas footprint.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Water deficit (ET minus irrigation) drives visible soil-moisture and crop-stress changes, while a nitrogen response curve, pumping energy and tillage-driven soil carbon combine into one net GHG number, animated as rising or sinking carbon motes.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the irrigation, evapotranspiration and nitrogen sliders and switch tillage practice. Watch the sprinkler, crop height/color, the moisture level in the soil cutaway, and the carbon-flow particles respond immediately.

💡 Did You Know?

No-till farming can keep 300–500 kg CO₂e/ha/year of carbon locked in the soil compared with conventional tillage, simply by leaving root channels and organic matter undisturbed.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D field of crops responding live to irrigation, evapotranspiration demand, nitrogen fertilizer and tillage — watch yield, soil moisture and net farm carbon footprint update together.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install