275-5 The Solar Corridor - A Call for Peer Review.

See more from this Division: A08 Integrated Agricultural Systems
See more from this Session: General Integrated Agricultural Systems: II
Wednesday, November 3, 2010: 9:20 AM
Long Beach Convention Center, Room 101A, First Floor
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Charles LeRoy Deichman, Deichman Consulting, Shelbyville, MO
The Solar Corridor has over multiple years and locations increased corn yields beyond what reasonable minds, might expect. (Our results show that the properly developed Solar Corridor System has consistently produced as much or more corn on 1 twin row of corn as we produced on 2 conventional 30 or 36 inch rows at yield levels of 200-225 bu.).

Herman Warsaw & I presented our hypothesis & preliminary parameters in Agronomy Abstracts of the '88 Annual Meetings. Since completing our initial studies, Deichman or Deichman,(R)Nelson & Glanzer et al. have presented our results to several assembled bodies of ASA members at international meetings. One was joint with GSA, another was joint with the American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers, Australian & European Societies of Agronomy & the International Environmental Modeling & Software Society(iemss).

One of you reviewed my design & analyzed the data of our base study, another hosted a component of the ongoing study with another class of hybrids, but no one that I know of has ever peer reviewed our results by field testing the proposed proptocol. Accordingly, I'm calling on an entity or research scientist with credentials & or resources that I no longer have, to field test the protocol I presented(beginning on line 2, The Solar Corridor Hypothesis, at the '07 Annual Meetings). This concept or paradigm shift and the magnitude of its potential to increase yields and in light of above described situation; prompts me to make this request to see if the results we've obtained may be replicated by others. At that time we may have a peer validated basis to discuss the results.   

  

See more from this Division: A08 Integrated Agricultural Systems
See more from this Session: General Integrated Agricultural Systems: II