Please find all previous county level and applicable statewide research below. If you have any questions, please contact Mikayla Berryhill at mikayla_berryhill@ncsu.edu.
2024
Tobacco
- The 2024 Tobacco Official Variety Trial (OVT) results can be found below:
- Person County Tobacco Greenhouse Trial - Treatments included different tray types (black plastic and white Styrofoam ) and fertility timing (7 days after seeding and 14 days after seeding)
Corn
- The 2024 Corn Official Variety Trial Data can be found on the OVT Website or the Variety Selection Tool. If you have questions about the variety selection tool or corn variety data, please contact Mikayla Berryhill (mikayla_berryhill@ncsu.edu)
- Northern Piedmont Regional Agent Variety Trial - The extension agents of Person, Granville, Caswell, and Alamance Counties worked together to put out a replicated corn variety trial.
- 2024 Water Resiliency Corn Hybrid Trials - Trials are designed to test different corn hybrids in drowned, optimum and drought situations.
Soybeans
- The 2024 Soybean Official Variety Trial Data can be found on the OVT Website or the Variety Selection Tool. If you have questions about the variety selection tool or soybean variety data, please contact Mikayla Berryhill (mikayla_berryhill@ncsu.edu)
- 2024 Soybean On-Farm Trial Program - Growth Habits - the On-Farm Trial program is a cooperation between the NC Soybean Producers Association and Cooperative Extension that leverages the local touchpoints of extension agents for large-scale, on-farm trials that supplement small plot data from NC State University. This year, agents across the state tested both indeterminate and determinate soybeans in the same maturity group and of similar yield potential to see if there is a yield benefit. This is the local Person County Data.
- 2024 Water Resiliency Soybean Variety Trials - Trials are designed to test different soybean varieties in drowned, optimum and drought situations.
Wheat
- The 2023-2024 Wheat Official Variety Trial Data can be found on the OVT Website or the Variety Selection Tool. If you have questions about the variety selection tool or wheat variety data, please contact Mikayla Berryhill (mikayla_berryhill@ncsu.edu)
- Granville County Wheat Nitrogen Trial - This trial was designed to test the difference in winter tiller counts as a result of different at-plant nitrogen rates.
2023
Tobacco
- The 2023 Tobacco OVT results can be found here: 2023 OVT Data (combined files)
- 2023 Flue-Cured Tobacco Disease Ratings
Corn
- The 2023 Corn OVT results can be found on the Grains OVT website, or by going to the NC Variety Selection Tool.
- Corn Water Resiliency Trial Data
- An article written by Dominic Reisig about the Corn Bt Trials
- Upper Piedmont Regional Corn Variety Trial
- Person County Corn Intensive Management Trial Summary
Soybeans
- The 2023 Soybean OVT results can be found on the Grains OVT website, or by going to the NC Variety Selection Tool.
- Soybean Water Resiliency Trial Data
- Person County Soybean In-Furrow Starter Fertilizer Trial
Wheat
- The 2022-2023 Wheat OVT results can be found on the Grains OVT website, or by going to the NC Variety Selection Tool.
- Person and Halifax Wheat Fungicide Trial
