1. Establishing (and Differentiating) On-farm Research and Demonstration Trials

As the 1990s begin, funding agencies are looking beyond the traditional definition of who does "research." While university, USDA and private industry have traditionally conducted research in the past, grassroot organizations, local agency personnel and individual farmers are now proposing and implementing research of various types. An overall trend seems to be for research experiments to be evaluated on farmersf fields. Some of this movement may be a political statement against traditional methods...