The Virtual Testing Ag Performance Solutions (VTAPS) program has been modeled around the highly successful UNL-TAPS (
http://taps.unl.edu) program. The VTAPS program allows high school ag students to have a similar TAPS experience. VTAPS participants will select the hybrid and seeding rate they wish to plant, apply nitrogen fertilizer and irrigation water. All the decisions and generated weather information are fed into a crop simulation model (DSSAT) and results are included in a weekly summary. At the end of the simulation participants will see how they rank in their final yield, cost of production and nitrogen and irrigation efficiency.
