How should I use this information when making decisions? This website presents both research and result demonstration trials. It is important to note that even though a particular trial may show some input or practice to be superior, it is not necessarily true that that superiority will be maintained in all locations over all years. This is because an experiment is only conducted in one time interval in one location. A treatment or practice that was superior in a given year in say, Hale County, may not be superior in Lubbock County the same year. It may not even be superior in Hale County the next year. Environmental factors change from year to year and location to location, and experiments must be repeated over many years and many locations before any practice can truly be said to be “superior”. It is important to keep this in mind when deciding whether to alter your management practices based on the results of these research and demonstration trials. We encourage you to contact your local Extension office for help in determining the relevance of these trials in your particular area. So what value are these research and demonstration trials? Well, research conducted by Texas Cooperative Extension is unbiased. We have no financial interest in the results. We want to determine which practices and inputs return the most benefit to the people in our State and community. Additionally, as discussed above, there is great value in local research because varieties, insecticides, and other inputs need to be tested locally in order to determine their local value. We hope you will find these reports to be of practical value in your operation. Please don’t hesitate to contact any author to ask questions about his or her research and result demonstration work. We are always happy to discuss our findings.