Aartappelvelddag word virtueel

Covid-19 het die manier waarop sake oor die hele wêreld gedoen word, verander, en dit is nie anders as dit by landbounavorsing kom nie. In 'n vorige pos, het ons uitgelig hoe Medius.Re kan help om samewerking op afstand te vergemaklik, spesifiek in verband met variëteitsontwikkelingspogings. Hierdie week laat Medius dit in die Noord-Amerikaanse aartappelbedryf plaas deur telers, telers en verwerkers vir 'n jaarlikse velddag te verbind om opkomende aartappels vir bevrore verwerking te evalueer.

The National Fry Processors Trial (NFPT) annually evaluates up to 70 varieties and compares them to the industry standards of Russet Burbank and Ranger Russet. This year, 314 variety samples representing 48 new clones and industry standards from six U.S. growing locations–Idaho, Maine, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin–are being evaluated in the NFPT program. In its 10th year, the NFPT is a collaboration between state potato grower organizations, processors, and breeders from across the country. The program is managed by Potatoes USA, die Amerikaanse aartappel-afleweringsorganisasie in Denver, Colorado. 

Since 2016 when Medius began partnering with Potatoes USA to manage the trial data generated in the NFPT program, significant strides have been made to bring the sample evaluations online from a paper format. Although we could have never known that the pandemic would make business as usual impossible this year, the work done in prior years has prepared us to seamlessly facilitate 100% remote participation in the 2020 NFPT Field Day. 

In previous years, NFPT Field Day attendees traveled to the USDA Agricultural Research Service Potato Research Worksite (PRW) in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, in mid-October. There they would physically evaluate trial samples that had been shipped from each of the trial locations. Not only would critical characteristics like yield and specific gravity be considered, but also individual clonal attributes like length, width, depth, and general appearance would be considered to create a subjective measure that would inform future decisions on whether varieties should advance within the program or be discontinued. With many organizations and companies advising against travel, this in-person evaluation was not possible this year. When Potatoes USA staff asked Medius about conducting the 2020 NFPT Field Day in a wholly remote way, the answer was an unequivocal yes.

In 2020 is monsters van elk van die proeflokale na die PRW gestuur soos in vorige jare. Maar in plaas daarvan om deelnemers aan te bied, het PRW-personeel gestandaardiseerde foto's van elke monster geneem, en die foto's is na die NFPT-gedeelte van potatousa.medius.re. Geregistreerde NFPT-velddagdeelnemers het die gegewens vir elke monster se opbrengs, afmetings en spesifieke gewig, sowel as toegang tot die foto's gegee wat gekorreleer was met die data van elke monster. Vir elke kloon kan daar tot ses monsters bestaan ​​- of een vanaf elke groeiplek. Elke monster het sy eie stel data en ooreenstemmende foto's gehad. As sy of haar gemak kan 'n individuele deelnemer elke steekproef evalueer, aantekeninge maak en dan die voltooide evaluasies stoor. Medius.Re het deelnemers ook die buigsaamheid gegee om 'n gedeeltelike evaluering uit te voer, die werk te stoor en later weer daarop terug te kom. Om soveel as moontlik evalueringsobjektiwiteit te behou, is kloonname gemasker totdat alle evaluasies van die deelnemers voltooi is. Brad Halladay, stigter van Medius, het 'n tutoriaalvideo geskep om deelnemers te help om deur die evalueringskoppelvlak te navigeer. Die video is hieronder beskikbaar. 

Ons is verheug dat ons 'n kritieke rol gespeel het om die 2020 NFPT Field Day in staat te stel om ondanks die pandemie voort te gaan en glo dat die verdere ontwikkelinge van die .Re-platform doeltreffender en akkurater evaluerings van variëteitsontwikkeling moontlik sal maak - sowel persoonlik as afgeleë - vir 'n wye verskeidenheid landboukommoditeite in die toekoms. Vir meer inligting of as u u kan help om u variëteitsontwikkelingsevaluasies te vergemaklik, kontak ons ​​gerus by info@mediusag.com.

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