Below you will find a list of the 2015 Cooperators.  Before that though we would like to tell you a bit about this year.

Trial results authorized for publication will come out after harvest, beginning as early as October and as late as March of the following year.  This page is just a friendly update of  who the current Cooperators are for 2015.

You will find the Cooperator’s contact information for your inquiries when you click on the Cooperator’s name, as well as any other trials completed at the IRF.

Strip-Till began on March 23, 2015 and was completed on
April 6th, 2015.
Planting began on April 23rd, 2015 and was completed on
June 9, 2015.
Harvest began on September 22, 2015 and was completed on November 10, 2015. 

  
March 2, 2015                 March 16, 2015                  March 23, 2015

The season was a challenging one with heavy rainfall early in the season, hail storms, wind, and little to no rain to finish out the season.

Some highlights of the challenges we faced:
May 10th we received 1.08 inches of rain along with temperatures that fell below freezing for the two days to follow.

April 3, 2015

April 29, 2015

May 22, 2015
June 1st we received 2.66 inches of rain, followed closely with 2. 58 inches of rain on June 5th.  This storm included some golf ball sized hail.  These two storms in the first week of June accounted for 5.24 inches of the 5.95 inches of rain for the entire month.
We joked that we would change the name of the Farm to
‘Lake IRF’.
     
June 2, 2015

June 5, 2015
  
June 6, 2015
  
June 9, 2015
July 30th brought us 1.99 inches of rain with some marble sized hail which was a little rough and caused some damage to some of the crops.
August 20th we saw another hail storm with heavy rain.  Due to a malfunction in the weather station, we are unsure of the total rainfall for that day, but we were back to ‘Lake IRF’ with standing water all over the Farm.  This storm lasted no more than 30 minutes, so it came with a bang!

August 20, 2015
September rainfall for the entire month was only .23 inches!  Very dry!

CROPS INCLUDED:

IRRIGATED CORN

Strip Till completed – March 23, 2015
Planting completed – June 9, 2015
Harvest completed – November 10, 2015
Average Yield – 176 Bushels per Acre

IRRIGATED SUGAR BEETS

Strip Till completed – March 26, 2015
Planting completed – April 22, 2015
Harvest completed – September 25, 2015
Average Yield – 29 Tons & 15% Sugar

IRRIGATED SOYBEANS

Strip Till completed – March 24, 2015
Planting completed – May 28, 2015
Harvest completed – September 23, 2015
Average Yield – 36 Bushels per Acre

DRY LAND CORN

Strip Till completed – March 24, 2015
Planting completed – April 23, 2015
Harvest completed – September 22, 2015
Average Yield – 76 Bushels per Acre

RESEARCH COOPERATORS INCLUDE:
AgroLiquid
Ag Concepts
AgriGro * * * Published Results
Amway * * * Published Results
Aurora Cooperative
BASF Corporation
Bayer CropScience
Centennial Ag Supply CO. * * * Published Results
Cytozyme Laboratories
Dakota Peat * * * Published Results
Dow AgroSciences
Grower’s Source, LLC. * * * Published Results
Humalfa * * * Published Results
 LG Seeds * * * Published Results
Max Systems, LLC.
Monsanto
Nachurs * * * Published Results
Nutra-Flo
Rosen’s Inc.
SoilBiotics * * * Published Results
Stoller USA * * * Published Results
Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC. * * * Published Results
Talc USA * * * Published Results
Verdesian Life Sciences
West Central, Inc.

Click on an image below to find out more details about some of the products named in the research at the Irrigation Research Foundation.

  

   

 

               
      

Click here to view some weather details of the season at www.coagmet.com.  Go to ‘monthly summaries’, select ‘year’, ‘month’, ‘Yuma’ station and ‘submit’.

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