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Contents 1 About the webinar 2 Panelists & Participants 3 Video recording 4 Polls 4.1 Do you conduct experiments on your farm or with your customers to test new products, genetics or equipment before making decisions? 4.2 Do you use precision farming technology? 4.3 How do you consider acquiring skills to use the data anlysis tools in Microsoft excel to analyze results of your on-farm experience?

About the webinar

This webinar is the third session in the course "Information Tools for Agriculture".

This lesson will provide a basic understanding of on-farm research, designed to test new management practices or products for possible adoption into the general farm management system. Emphasis is on making it easy to implement with field-scale equipment, easy to analyze with simple data management and analysis, and simple to interpret the results.

• Why do on-farm research

• Deciding what to study

• Laying out the plots
  • Importance of replication
  • Value of randomization

• Monitoring progress

• Managing the data
  • Collecting and cleaning the data
  • Analyzing the data
  • Interpreting the results

The lesson will include demonstrations and hands-on experience working with some simple research tools designed for on-farm research. These are stand-alone programs and Microsoft EXCEL spreadsheet tools designed to simplify data management for on-farm studies.

Panelists & Participants

Panelists included:

• Dr Harold Reetz, Reetz Agronomics, Monticello, IL
• Ed Di Pollina, GeoAgro Team Leader

Video recording

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Polls

The following polls were carried out during the webinar:

Do you conduct experiments on your farm or with your customers to test new products, genetics or equipment before making decisions?

Do you use precision farming technology?

How do you consider acquiring skills to use the data anlysis tools in Microsoft excel to analyze results of your on-farm experience?