Farmer-Led Research
Practical Farmers of Iowa’s Cooperators’ Program empowers curious farmers to conduct on-farm experiments that answer their questions and guide their decision making. Farmers are always at the helm – they are the ones brainstorming projects, setting research priorities and gathering data on their farms.
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Research Reports
Research reports are written by Practical Farmers staff to ensure consistency and quality, and are available to view or download for free.
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Master Researcher Award
The Master Researcher Award recognizes the efforts of those who have conducted extensive on-farm research and demonstration. The recognized farms have each conducted 20 or more on-farm research trials and spoken at or hosted at least five Practical Farmers events to share the knowledge gained over the years.
Latest Research Posts
Explore stories from farmers who have participated in research trials.
The annual summer forage trial was interesting because it is directly useful for the management of our farm operation and because this type of project has not been well researched yet.
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