The objectives for this funding request are to provide technical support for soybean research programs so that time sensitive and important information such as flowering date, disease and lodging scores, height, maturity date, yield and test weight can be collected in a timely manner. Other tasks may include planting of plots, tissue sampling, hand harvesting, machine harvesting, and sample data collection after harvest and to provide an opportunity for an undergraduate college student to gain firsthand agronomic experience working in crop research programs in the coastal plain of Virginia.