A method for targeting trait phenotyping of a plant breeding experimentincludes collecting soil data for at leastone location, applying the soil data to a crop model, performing environmentalmonitoring at the at least one location to generateenvironmental data, updating the crop model with the environmental data, andusing the crop model to provide predicted cropconditions. The method further includes determining environmental conditionsfor each of the plant breeding experiments,determining a likelihood of trait phenotype variations for each experimentusing the environmental conditions and the predicted cropconditions, selecting a subset of the plant breeding experiments forcollecting trait phenotype measurements based on the likelihoodof trait phenotypic variation, and collecting trait phenotype measurementsfrom the subset of the plant breeding experiments.
