Resources

Practical Guides and Handouts

Farmer-centric On-Farm Experimentation Enhanced by Digital Agronomy

One-page OFE Handout

Dr. Louis Longchamps | 2024 

Systems Research for Agriculture: Innovative solutions to complex challenges

SARE Outreach

Laurie E. Drinkwater, Diana Friedman, Louise Buck | 2016 

Designing your own on-farm experiments

GRDC Precision Agriculture Manual

Compiled by: Garry O’Leary, Victorian Department of Primary Industries (formerly CSIRO Land and Water) Edited by: Jo Peters, Farm Works | 2021 

A practical guide to conducting on-farm pasture research

SARE

Sidney Bosworth, University of Vermont | 2013

Guide to Farmers’ Crop Trials

ADAS

Sidney Bosworth, University of Vermont | 2013

Farmer-centred innovation: adapting evaluation approaches

24th European Seminar on Extension and Education

Berriet-Solliec, Marielle, Pierre Labarthe, and Catherine Laurent | 2014

Videos

Soil and Crop Sciences Seminars

Louis Longchamps

Farmers will lead the transition to sustainable agriculture...

Sebastien Angers

The importance of agronomic design for regenerative agriculture

Simon Cook

How do farmers benefit from agricultural research? Can we do it better?

Louis Longchamps

Supporting the transition to sustainable ag with digital agronomy

OFE Playlists

Articles and Books

Research Articles about OFE

Lacoste, M., Cook, S., McNee, M., Gale, D., Ingram, J., Bellon-Maurel, V., ... & Hall, A. (2022). On-farm experimentation to transform global agriculture. Nature Food, 3(1), 11-18. https://rdcu.be/dTMUz

Friedman, N., Tan, Z., Haskins, M. N., Ju, W., Bailey, D., & Longchamps, L. (2024). Understanding Farmers' Data Collection Practices on Small-to-Medium Farms for the Design of Future Farm Management Information Systems. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1), 1-28. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3637416


Books and eBooks

Véronique Bellon Maurel, Nicolas Tremblay, Simon Cook, Myrtille Lacoste, James Taylor, et al.. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Farmer-centric on-farm experimentation (OFE2021): Digital tools for a scalable transformative pathway. 1st International Conference farmer-centric on-farm experimentation (OFE2021), Oct 2021, Montpellier, France. 2022

Louis Longchamps, Simon Cook, Myrtille Lacoste, Ivan Adolwa, et al.. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Farmer-centric on-farm experimentation (OFE2023): Achieving shared value proposition. 2nd International Conference farmer-centric on-farm experimentation (OFE2023), Online Dec. 2023, broadcasted from Ithaca, NY, USA. 2023