March 11, 2020

Plan your on-farm research trials

Farms can run their own strip trials to test how a particular practice or product performs in a local environment – and this is a good time to make a plan. A strip trial could test, for example, the difference between 60 pounds and 120 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre, or between acres treated or untreated with fungicide. A strip trial could also be used for preliminary evaluation of a novel product.

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