Harvest [2013]

The farmers are harvesting their crops, which means that our team has been spending a lot of time out in the field moving and re-positioning sensors and observation wells as well as collecting yield data.

Below is a picture of a few of our team members, Dr. Xinhua Jia, Dr. Dongqing Lin, and Debjit Roy (doctoral student), walking in the soon to be harvested soybean field.  On this day the task was to lower our water table observation wells about a foot below ground so that they were not damaged during harvest.

Left to right Dr. Lin, Dr. Jia, Debjit Roy in the soybean field before harvest.

Burying of water table observation wells.

In addition to moving and re-positioning our equipment/sensors our team has also been collecting yield information by looking at the yield from various 10 ft. x two row wide sections at each plot.

Currently, we are waiting for the corn fields to be harvested, but in the meantime we are processing and analyzing this years data!