Cover photo credit-Lindy Tucker; above-Taylor Clarke
Instead of our usual narrative, this month we are sharing a video documenting our on-farm soybean test plots and explaining how we use these plots to generate decision-making tools for crop farmers in Virginia. As you will learn, developing test plots requires careful pre-planning and calculations, good management throughout the season, and special data collection at harvest time. This crop performance data becomes available to farmers each year, fueling agricultural progress and profitability. In the video, we explain the whole process from start to finish while tracking one of our plots which was planted in Southside Virginia in 2014. Click the play button to begin watching.
Want to learn more? Read our previous story here about Extension agent Taylor Clarke and his on-farm soybean plot.
Photo credit (here and images below)-Lindy Tucker
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