2009
Salary for senior plot caretaker
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Industry outreachResearch Coordination
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Melvin Newman, USDA-ARS-Jackson, TN
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
University of Tennessee-Institute of Agriculture
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

The workload to plant, care for, evaluate and harvest all the necessary plant disease and nematode tests has increased significantly in the past three years. The workload has increased by 100% with new fungicides, soybean rust activities and tests and new races of the soybean cyst nematode. In the last three years they have harvested an average of 50 tests with about 3,100 plots per year in several locations. The workload will continue to increase in the coming years due to increased awareness and yield loss from Soybean Diseases and nematodes and the Asian Soybean Rust threat.

The funding will be used to hire a senior plot caretaker to assist in coordinating and supervising all the...

Unique Keywords:
#research coordination
Information And Results
Final Project Results

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