A major challenge for researchers is connecting with farmers who want to participate in on-farm experiments. In addition, the time constraints that researchers and farmers face can make collaborating difficult.
User Support at Every Step
Through AgConnect, researchers can:
- Reduce outreach fatigue by targeting farmers who have joined AgConnect, showing interest in on-farm research
- Use time-saving templates to explain protocols, describe experiment steps and procedures, and provide data entry logs.
- Enter or have farmers enter experiment data
- Store experiment data and conduct basic statistical analyses
- Create research reports and send them directly to participants
- Easily communicate with farmers and answer their questions
- Gain insights from farmers’ questions and suggestions to inform future work.
In the long term, AgConnect’s consistent experimental design will facilitate meta-analyses.