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Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission announces priorities and a call for proposals
Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission Call for Proposals
Priorities
- Weed Control
- Research focusing on the identification of new genetic sources for resistance to available grass control herbicides.
- Management research addressing herbicide treatment and farm based weed control.
- Yield
- Genetic and breeding research targeted towards increased yields in both high yielding and limited resource environments.
- Research focusing on best farm management practices for top yields. This priority can include but is not limited to: farm trials, extension meetings and on-farm management case studies.
- Identify best management practices for both full and limited irrigation practices.
- Standability
- Researching the key components attributed to standability.
- Proposal directed toward ensuring genetics in producers’ fields have strong standability.
- Sorghum Economics and Profitability
- Production economics focusing on farm profitability and sorghum return relative to other crops.
- Water economics to include but not limited: water response curves and limited irrigation returns.
- Basis drivers evaluating the impact of ethanol, feed markets, exports and other market drivers on interior Kansas basis markets.
- Disease Control
- Evaluate how plant health and disease resistance are influenced by management including but not limited to fertilizer, seed treatment, and seeding rates.
- Genetic research targeted toward plant health and disease resistance.
- Insect Control
- Evaluation of economic threshold for treatment and insect control related to profitability.
- Chinch bug management and control.
Research proposals outside of these priorities will be considered. Strong proposals will provide a linkage and vision for commercialization of project outcomes. For further clarification or questions regarding your proposal please contact the commission at (785) 477-9474 or [email protected].
Proposals are due by April 30, 2015.