Agricultural Nitrogen Use Efficiency Platform

AgNUE is an international research platform advancing the measurement, modelling and management of nitrogen in agricultural systems.

Supersite network

Twelve intensively monitored fields across Europe and the United States. Hover a marker for the site summary, then follow the link to its supersite page.

SmartField Supersite A — Foulum Aarhus University · Denmark An established SmartField site representing temperate Nordic agriculture. Learn more SmartField Supersite A — Foulum SmartField Supersite B — Hadsten Aarhus University · Denmark The second Danish SmartField site, on contrasting soil under the same cropping framework. Learn more SmartField Supersite B — Hadsten South-East Norway Norwegian University of Life Sciences · Norway Cereal systems on marine clay in a cool, humid Scandinavian climate. Learn more South-East Norway Helsinki University of Helsinki · Finland Boreal cropping with long winters and a short, intensive growing season. Learn more Helsinki Wageningen Wageningen University & Research · Netherlands Intensively managed lowland field representing high-input North Sea agriculture. Learn more Wageningen Munich–Fürstenfeldbruck Germany Pre-alpine arable systems on loamy soils in southern Germany. Learn more Munich–Fürstenfeldbruck Grignon / Estrées-Mons INRAE · France Long-term instrumented cropping sites in the Paris basin and Picardy. Learn more Grignon / Estrées-Mons Aranjuez Universidad Politécnica de Madrid · Spain Irrigated Mediterranean cropping under high evaporative demand. Learn more Aranjuez Matera Italy Rainfed durum wheat systems in a dry southern Mediterranean setting. Learn more Matera North Carolina Coastal Plain NC State University · United States Humid subtropical row-crop systems on coastal plain soils. Learn more North Carolina Coastal Plain North Carolina, Tidewater Tidewater Research Station · United States Poorly drained, artificially drained soils near the North Carolina coast. Learn more North Carolina, Tidewater Central Illinois University of Illinois · United States Maize–soybean rotation on deep Mollisols in the US Corn Belt. Learn more Central Illinois

Hover or tab to a marker to see its summary; click to open the supersite page.

Scope of project

The AgNUE project in numbers.

Partners engaged

Collaboration across leading institutions in Europe and the US driving forward nitrogen use improvements

Intensively monitored fields

Generating high-quality data across diverse agricultural systems

Research platform

Building the datasets and models needed to reduce uncertainty

Photo: SmartField

News

Explore articles, analyses and other communication related to the project.

What we do

Field-based data generation

Building the foundation through intensively monitored research sites that generate high-resolution nitrogen datasets across agricultural systems.

Mechanistic experimentation

Investigating the biological and chemical processes that drive nitrogen transformations, emissions and crop uptake.

Soil microbiology

Understanding how soil microorganisms influence nitrogen cycling, emissions and ecosystem processes at the microscopic level.

AI-powered
modelling

Combining datasets, advanced models and AI-driven approaches to reduce uncertainty and improve nitrogen predictions.

Partner institutions