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February 5, 2018

The Grower’s Guide to Conducting On-farm Variety Trials

On-farm variety trials help farmers manage risk by identifying optimal genetics for a grower’s unique environmental and market conditions. This guide provides farmers fundamental skills to conduct on-farm variety trials that reflect their particular goals and farming operations. Readers will find scientific principles presented in an accessible way, and will be walked though the process of planning, implementing, evaluating, and interpreting a variety trial. This tool is useful for farmers, as well as for research, extension, and non-profit programs looking to train farmers as co-researchers when conducting on-farm trials.

This publication is part of a larger project that includes webinars, on-farm workshops, and an online toolkit for managing on-farm trials.

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Crops: All grains, All vegetables, Flowers, Herbs

Publication Categories: How-to Guides, Worksheets & Record-keeping

Tags: On-farm research, Variety trials

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