Last Call for Soybean Information
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Last Call for Soybean Information
Emerson Nafziger, Extension Agronomist (retired) - University of Illinois
Farmers are always complaining university research, because it is done in small plot trials, doesn’t reflect real world conditions. Todd Gleason reports, now is the time for them to go all in on a best management practices study for soybeans.
Land Grant university agronomists across the whole…
2:23 radio
2:40 radio self-contained
Land Grant university agronomists across the whole of the corn belt have been asking producers for their production data. Emerson Nafziger is in charge for the state of Illinois. He says it’s not been easy to convince farmers to fill out a production practices survey.
Nafziger :41 …$50 gift card if they’ll fill out one of these forms.
Quote Summary - As our part of it here in Illinois we are supposed to collect data from about 500 soybean fields a year for each of those crop years. We have not gotten really very close to that, yet, so we are making one last push here in March of 2018 to get these forms in from anybody who is willing to provide them. So, we can go to the bulletin. I’ve just posted my last request for information. We are willing to send people a $50 gift card if they’ll fill out one of these forms.
You probably get the idea that this “ask” hasn’t gone over so well with farmers. That’s funny because it is exactly what they want. Farmers have asked for whole field research for years, and this research is paid for in part by the soybean checkoff. However, it won’t work if farmers aren’t willing to provide the data and Nafziger says it’s mostly stuff they should know off the top of their heads.
Nafziger :41 …other management things with the yield.
Quote Summary - We’d like four fields described and the information needed is not very complicated.
A lot of it is off the top of your head, actually. We’d like planting data, and seeding rate, and variety,
and then the yield for a field. We don’t need yield monitor data. We are not looking for anything like that. Just a number saying the yield in that field. We are still trying to gather some data for 2016 if we can, but our focus is on 2017 and trying to get this information. So, we need field location and then other management things with the yield.
Those farmers wanting to fill out the forms to participate in the Soybean Checkoff funded whole field best management practices data study can find them online. Look for a link in Emerson Nafziger’s article on the Bulletin web page. The address bulletin.ipm.illinois.edu.
Last Call for Soybean Information
Emerson Nafziger, Extension Agronomist (retired) - University of Illinois
Farmers are always complaining university research, because it is done in small plot trials, doesn’t reflect real world conditions. Todd Gleason reports, now is the time for them to go all in on a best management practices study for soybeans.
Land Grant university agronomists across the whole…
2:23 radio
2:40 radio self-contained
Land Grant university agronomists across the whole of the corn belt have been asking producers for their production data. Emerson Nafziger is in charge for the state of Illinois. He says it’s not been easy to convince farmers to fill out a production practices survey.
Nafziger :41 …$50 gift card if they’ll fill out one of these forms.
Quote Summary - As our part of it here in Illinois we are supposed to collect data from about 500 soybean fields a year for each of those crop years. We have not gotten really very close to that, yet, so we are making one last push here in March of 2018 to get these forms in from anybody who is willing to provide them. So, we can go to the bulletin. I’ve just posted my last request for information. We are willing to send people a $50 gift card if they’ll fill out one of these forms.
You probably get the idea that this “ask” hasn’t gone over so well with farmers. That’s funny because it is exactly what they want. Farmers have asked for whole field research for years, and this research is paid for in part by the soybean checkoff. However, it won’t work if farmers aren’t willing to provide the data and Nafziger says it’s mostly stuff they should know off the top of their heads.
Nafziger :41 …other management things with the yield.
Quote Summary - We’d like four fields described and the information needed is not very complicated.
A lot of it is off the top of your head, actually. We’d like planting data, and seeding rate, and variety,
and then the yield for a field. We don’t need yield monitor data. We are not looking for anything like that. Just a number saying the yield in that field. We are still trying to gather some data for 2016 if we can, but our focus is on 2017 and trying to get this information. So, we need field location and then other management things with the yield.
Those farmers wanting to fill out the forms to participate in the Soybean Checkoff funded whole field best management practices data study can find them online. Look for a link in Emerson Nafziger’s article on the Bulletin web page. The address bulletin.ipm.illinois.edu.