Several of Purdue's field crops Extension specialists share a strong interest in collaborating with Indiana growers to conduct on-farm research (OFR) trials on topics that include N fertilizer rates for corn, seeding rates for corn and soybean, fungicide efficacy on corn and soybean, and nematode management strategies for corn and soybean. These researchers include Jim Camberato (soil fertility), Shaun Casteel (soybean production), Kiersten Wise (plant diseases), Jamal Faghihi (nematodes), and Bob Nielsen (corn production). All have experience with conducting OFR trials and can effectively work with growers to minimize the logistics of conducting field-scale trials while maintaining statistical soundness of the experimental designs.

These Purdue Extension specialists are looking for growers to work with them in 2012 in conducting field-scale OFR projects. Protocols for the research projects are available online at the following Purdue Web site: http://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/ofr or can be sent upon request to growers by email or regular mail. Results from previous years are also available at the Purdue Web site.

Indiana CCA professionals are invited to participate with this collaborative effort by identifying farmers with an interest in these OFR trials and either simply referring the names of those individuals on to the respective Purdue specialist or actively collaborate in the OFR effort by taking part in the planning, establishment, data collection, and harvest of the field trials. Your level of participation is totally up to you as we realize everyone has a busy schedule and may not have time to become fully involved with one or more OFR trials. This is a great opportunity to help your clientele by helping Purdue develop independent fact-based cropping guidelines. Your involvement is a value-added opportunity for Indiana CCAs with your clientele and helps promote the Indiana CCA Program throughout the state.

Indiana CCA Conference Presentations

• Program with links to presentations
  
• Speaker List

The Indiana CCA Board is pleased to announce a new scholarship program for Indiana Certified Crop Advisers. Indiana CCA will be supporting three $1,500 scholarships for Indiana CCA members or children of Indiana CCAs who are enrolled as students in the Purdue University School of Agriculture.

Interested members or students of members need to apply online by February 1, 2012.

 

All students who submit a completed College of Agriculture online scholarship application before February 1, 2012 will be considered for all scholarships for which they are eligible. New students applying to the College of Agriculture cannot access the online scholarship application until they have been officially accepted into the college by the Office of Admissions. Current students must reapply each year for scholarship consideration.

 

The Indiana CCA program is about education and providing excellence in crop advising. We are excited about supporting agriculture and future Certified Crop Advisers!

Welcome to the Indiana CCA web site. We hope you find it informative and easy to use. It has been set up as a key source of information about the Indiana CCA program. You can use it to find meetings offering CEUs, download applications for CEUs, apply for CEUs online,  and, suggestions and ideas to Indiana Board members.