“…Process-based crop models simulate plant growth, development, and yield, according to the genotype, weather, soil, and crop management (Jones et al, 2003(Jones et al, , 2017. These models have been widely applied to understand the impacts of climate variability and change in agricultural production (Karthikeyan et al, 2020;Liang et al, 2020;Sachin et al, 2019), to rationalize resources in precision agriculture (Thorp et al, 2008) and to support improvements in sustainable agricultural practices (Miao et al, 2006;Sentelhas et al, 2015). They are usually employed in site-specific evaluations (i.e., simulations considering only a pair of geographic coordinates) at a field-scale.…”