**AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** REPLICATED SMALL PLOT RESEARCH HAS BEEN A MAINSTAY OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROGRAMS. HOWEVER, THESE HIGHLY CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS MAY NOT TRANSLATE WELL TO ON-FARM CONDITIONS WHERE VARIABILITY IS PRESENT. IN THIS PROJECT, WE PLAN TO WORK WITH PRODUCERS TO DESIGN FIELD EXPERIMENTS THAT CAN BE CONDUCTED ON THEIR FARMS, WITH THEIR RESOURCES, TO ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS. CO-CREATION IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT IMPROVES THE RELEVANCE OF THE SCIENCE, WHILE ALSO IMPROVING THE AUTONOMY OF PRODUCERS FOR INDEPENDENT EXPERIMENTATION. ADVANCEMENTS IN STATISTICAL PRACTICES WILL ALLOW UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS TO BETTER UTILIZE THESE INFORMAL DATA STREAMS FOR MORE SOPHISTICATED ANALYSES BEYOND WHAT A SINGLE PRODUCER OR RESEARCH CAN ACCOMPLISH WORKING ALONE. THEREFORE, AS WE ARE WORKING ALONGSIDE OUR PRODUCER PARTNERS, WE ARE DEVELOPING THE DATA PIPELINE THAT CAN TRANSMIT DATA VOLUMES NECESSARY FOR SYSTEMS MODELLING. WE SUPPORT THIS RESEARCH EFFORT WITH EXTENSION ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS TO FURTHER BUILD THE PRODUCER'S CAPACITY TO CONDUCT EXPERIMENTATION AND BETTER UNDERSTAND UNIVERSITY RESEARCH RESULTS. THESE INCLUDE HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES THAT TEACH SKILLS IN DATA COLLECTION WITH A RANGE OF INSTRUMENTATION AT HIGH AND LOW PRICES POINTS TO BE INCLUSIVE OF SMALL AND LARGE FARMS. BECAUSE THIS IS A NEW MODEL FOR EXTENSION AND RESEARCH IN OUR AREA, WE WILL CONDUCT A FULL EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM. WE HAVE ASSEMBLED AN ADVISORY BOARD OF KEY STAKEHOLDERS THAT TOGETHER, WITH THE PROGRAMMATIC EVALUATION, WILL REFINE THE BLUEPRINT WE ARE DEVELOPING TO ENHANCE PROGRAM SUSTAINABILITY.