Survey2021A

Survey of Farmer Interest in Measuring Agrichemicals

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Agriculture Interest Survey

1. How do you decide what agrichemicals (nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, borate, iron, sulfur, magnesium, ... ), and in what quantity, to put on your fields?

Rule of thumb/experience.

Farm service organization takes samples, measures them, and recommends.

Agronomist from Extension or in private practice takes samples, measures them, and recommends.

I do my own agronometric measurements and make my own decisions.

Seed provider recommends.

I go with what Mother Nature provides.

Other.

2. Every field has runoff at some time. How do you deal with such water?

I monitor runoff and adjust agrichemical application to compensate for what is lost.

I don't monitor runoff composition, but would like to.

I don't monitor runoff composition, and unless government mandates it, I won't.

I let Mother Nature handle it.

Other.

3. Many fields can have standing water. How do you deal with such water?

After standing water evaporates, I determine whether fresh agrichemicals are needed to maintain yield as I answered in Question 1.

After standing water evaporates, I determine whether fresh agrichemicals are needed to maintain yield differently than I answered in Question 1.

If there's standing water, the cost of restoring yield where there's damage exceeds any benefit from trying to remedy the situation.

I let Mother Nature handle it.

Other.

4. Precision agriculture, where fertilization, runoff, planting density, and biocide treatment are optimized foot by foot, is a much-discussed idea. What's your take on precision agriculture?

Great for yield optimization.

Sometimes worth the cost, sometimes not.

Optimizing field by field makes sense, but not foot by foot.

More trouble than it's worth.

Other.

5. Would you want to make own measurements to decide what agrichemicals to use, and in what quantity, without having anyone else know what was recommended?

Sounds intriguing -- tell me more!

I'd stick with rule of thumb/experience.

I'd rather have an expert do the work and tell me what I should do.

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Don't call.

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