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’.