1. Seeding and Planting Plots for Crop Performance Evaluation Using Gps-rtk Auto Steering

Crop performance evaluation plots are seeded both on and off the University of Nebraska West Central Research and Extension Center. Plots off the Center must match the producer’s rows for pesticide application, cultivation, ditching, irrigation, fertilization and any other operations performed in the fields. With row crops the producer blank-plants the plot area before we can follow up with planting the plots. This means that we have to wait for the producer to plant in the field. Blank-planting... R.N. Klein, J.A. Golus, A.S. Cox