Dear DSSAT Netters : I would like to welcome you to our DSSAT Listserver. Since the list started about two weeks ago there have been more than 100 subscriptions. We have not had too much traffic yet, and I hope we can keep the traffic under control. For those on the list not familiar with the acronym DSSAT, it stands for Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer. In 1989 the IBSNAT Project released DSSAT V2.1 and recently DSSAT V3.0 has been released. The new DSSAT includes the generic grain cereal model CERES for wheat, maize, barley, millet, and sorghum, CERES-Rice, the generic grain legume model CROPGRO for soybean, peanut, and dry bean, the potato model SUBSTOR, and the cassava model CROPSIM. Models for other crops are currently under development. DSSAT V3 also includes several data management programs, such as Weatherman and Gencalc, both published recently in the Agronomy Journal. The old strategy analysis program of DSSAT V2.1 has been further developed into a Seasonal Analysis program to study different crop management scenarios for one season, and a Sequence Analysis program, to study crop rotations. Both programs were published recently in the Agronomy Journal. As the "format" IBSNAT group, we realize that there are many users of the stand-alone crop models and the DSSAT system. This listserver is setup for you as. Please share your questions, concerns, problems, applications, announcements, publications, or anthing appropriate with the group. You will find that some of the model developers like J. T. Ritchie, J. W. Jones, P.K. Thornton, W. T. Bowen, K. J. Boote, J. W. White, D. Imamura, G. Y. Tsuji and others are members of this list. We will try to share items related to problems, errors, upgrades etc. related to the crop models and DSSAT with you. I you have any questions related to this list specifically, please send me a personal note. My e-mail address is [log in to unmask] Please send messages for the DSSAT list to [log in to unmask] Thank you for your interest. Gerrit Dr. Gerrit Hoogenboom Assistant Professor Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering The University of Georgia Griffin, Georgia 30223-1797, USA Phone: 404-228-7216 FAX: 404-228-7218 E-Mail: [log in to unmask]