List of Nebraska Farm Program Category
Nebraska Soybean and Feed Grains Profitability Project
The Nebraska Soybean and Feed Grains Profitability Project (NSFGPP) combines the efforts of University of Nebraska-Lincon (UNL) Extension faculty, Nebraska producers and agribusiness representatives to help producer members determine profitable production and management practices for localized areas.
Members' equipment is used to establish, manage, and harvest field-size research comparisons. Agribusiness representatives and members monitor the fields and record relevant data. UNL personnel analyze results and document profitability differences among treatments.
Producer interested in joining the NSFGPP should contact UNL Extension Educators Dave Varner or Keith Glewen to arrange an appointment to discuss your on-farm research interests further.
This initial meeting will only take an hour or two. Ideally, this meeting includes you, an agribusiness representative of your choice, and Dave and/or Keith. We will help you design an on-farm research experiment to address the specific questions that you have about improving your farm operation. When you leave this meeting you will have a an experimental plan in hand.
In the spring you and your agribusiness representative will establish your on-farm research site. Throughout the growing season both parties will monitor the field and record observations relevant to the study.
Dave or Keith will mail you a packet with the forms and procedures that you will need to harvest and document your research study properly. These forms will include the Harvest Checklist and Information Form and a Paired Comparison Form or Randomized Complete Block Form. Your agribusiness partner will generally assist with this task. Once acompleted you forward a copy of your results to Keith or Dave.
We will statistically analyze your data and then arrange for a winter consultation with you and your agribusiness representative. This consultation will focus on reviewing the results of your study, both statistically and economically. A confidential economic analysis of your study will be custom developed for your study. The remaining portion of this meeting will focus on refining your research study for the coming year. Enrollment in the NSFGPP requires a commitment of three-years toward the project to generate reliable results.
In early March all NSFGPP members are invited to the Annual NSFGPP Research Review where all member share the results of their respective studies. You not only learn from your own on-farm research, but from approximately forty other on-farm research studies too!
Quad County On-Farm Research Program
Quad County On-Farm Research Project
The Quad County On-Farm Research Project combines the efforts of producers and Extension Educators in Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York and surrounding counties to pool resources and take advantage of the research potential that exists on the farm.
The projects take advantage of technology such as yield monitors and weigh wagons to collect data from replicated research plots. By pooling data over many sites, the power of the research is amplified! The project also gives producers an opportunity to find answers to questions not currently under research in Nebraska and it allows for testing of University findings on local farms.
Each year research projects are selected by the group and particpating producers. The goal is to have one study that is conducted by all of the members.
Members' equipment is used to establish, manage, and harvest field-size research comparisons. Producers, consultants, and educators monitor the fields and record relevant data. University personnel analyze results and the information is shared in group meetings.
Educational tours, field days and planning sessions are conducted periodically.