Success StoryExpansion of On-Farm Research drives Evalution of Farm Inputs



Expansion of On-Farm Research drives Evalution of Farm Inputs

Author: Curtis Dame

Planning Unit: Hopkins County CES

Major Program: Farm Management

Plan of Work: Expanding Opportunities for Technology, Sustainability, and Environmental Stewardship

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

Since 2013 on-farm research in Hopkins County has been a well received program provided by extension personnel. With that said efforts have been made to answer producer questions related to products that been highly touted, but lack data to prove that claims of profit increases are actually tested and sound. Expansion of these efforts have been driven by producer committees that have selected which products would be tested. In the spring of 2018 data analysis showed significant results on a majority of the plots in the study regarding in-furrow products on soybeans with one participating producer actually setting a state double-crop soybean record for 2017. The producer has since been encouraged to expand such tests on his farm with input from county extension agents in Hopkins, Webster and McLean counties who helped to coordinate the Tri-County Grain Improvement Program.






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