warksfarmer
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@Clive not read the whole thread, but to surmise how these tramline farmer trials work.
1. There is usually enough in field variability between tramlines to be statistically significant.
2. Get a few farmers to do the 'trial', hope your magic potion is lucky and is on a 'good tramline'.
3. Hey presto Farmer 'CB' sees a 0.5t/ha yield increase from magic potion, its statistically significant, farmer CB backs this up with his anecdotal evidence.
4. Magic potion company disregards the other ten farmers who saw no yield increase or even a decrease (all due to in field variability as magic potion is in fact rubbish).
5. Magic potion company uses CB as their poster child, farmer CB buys IBC's of the stuff!
Seen it all before, this sort of thing has been tried for years, probably since the dawn of agriculture.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong.
Yep