7. Application Accuracy In Research. Part 1: Broadcast Dry Fertilizer
Crop research can be expensive in a number of ways. There is the cost of the researchers to establish an experiment (time, materials, data collections, etc). There is the time from experiment establishment to harvest (nervous time waiting). There is the cost of a lost experiment due to weather disaster (meaning you may have to repeat it next year making the results even farther away). And there is the loss of an experiment due to misapplication of the treatments. And this is often a hidden cost since it may not be known that this happened. It is often assumed that the researcher is able to accurately apply the treatments, so it is probably worth going over this in the early treatment discussions.
