The design demonstrates why variety and farm identity must remain traceable for causal comparison. This excerpt records design, not experimental outcome. Subsequent laboratory processing replicates must not be counted as independent field replicates.
Arnold moves from provenance concerns to an experimental variety-by-farm design.
Arnold describes three modern yellow-dent hybrids crossed with three Texas sites, plus one of those hybrids grown at a fourth site: ten grain lots in total. The site treatment bundles soil, weather and farm management. This passage describes the design, not the experimental outcome.
PDF sheet 108; printed page 100
PDF sheet 108; printed page 100
A Road Map to Terroir
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Arnold describes three modern yellow-dent hybrids crossed with three Texas sites, plus one of those hybrids grown at a fourth site: ten grain lots in total. The site treatment bundles soil, weather and farm management. This passage describes the design, not the experimental outcome.
Interpretation
The design demonstrates why variety and farm identity must remain traceable for causal comparison. This excerpt records design, not experimental outcome. Subsequent laboratory processing replicates must not be counted as independent field replicates.
Verification
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