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The task is to get an understanding of how to set up agricultural field research, how to reduce the number of variables and replicate trial plots in order to get more reliable results, and how to evaluate results from such trials.
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The modern farmer needs to be ready to change agricultural practices in order to grow new varieties and new crops, grow them in new ways in order to reduce losses of water and nutrients and in order to build up a living soil. The changes coming with a warmer world with less freshwater available for farming requires such changes. The farmer must therefore train herself to investigate systematically what practices are appropriate for the local areas and for the changes expected locally.<br /> This means that you must be able to guide farmers to do this. How to set up a field test plot? How large does it need to be? How to decide what the crucial factor or factors are that must be tested. How to ensure that any variations are due to this or that factor? How many plots should be made of the same kind to be more sure of the result? How to be sure that the result actually shows a difference and is not just the normal variations which can be expected?<br /> There are numerous questions to be asked and decided upon.<br /> You should make it into a habit to always set up experimental plots in your Garden Farm, in order to get used to this scientific method of investigating issues, but also because you also need to prepare for more difficult times.
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This task is scheduled for 4 hours.<br /> <ol> <li>Read the file about making on-farm research.</li> <li>Select an issue on which you, together with some of the farmers you are in contact with, want to make test plots to find out how to improve growth or yields in relation to this issue.</li> <li>Design the research you will make - including description of numbers of test plots, the variable(s) that are being investigated and how you will determine the outcome of the trials</li> <li>Discuss your set-up with some farmers, some colleagues or others with ideas about such issues, and make possible adjustments.</li> <li>Write a paper where you describe 1) the problem you will investigate, 2) the set-up of your field trials, 3) what you will measure to evaluate the result and how to determine what confidence you can have in your results, 4) and where and with whom you will actually set up these trials.</li> </ol> Send the paper to your tutor.<br /> <br /> Files:<br /> <br /> F1. R.L. Nielsen: <strong><u>A Practical Guide to On-Farm Research</u></strong>, <em>Purdue University Department of Agronomy, 2010. Accessed on: www.kingcorn.org/news/timeless/OnFarmResearch.pdf</em><br />
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