FAQs

Viewing the harvest reports

Download the latest version of Acrobat Reader for free.
(If you've purchased the entire Adobe Acrobat program, you shouldn't need to upgrade.)
You need to have Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later to view the Harvest Reports.

Troubleshooting

If you're having trouble seeing the entire harvest report even after you've installed the latest version, your computer may still be using an older version of Acrobat Reader.

Open a report and click on Help in the toolbar menu at the top of the screen.
Click on the About option to see what version is in operation.

If it is an earlier version than what you just downloaded, close the program and go to your computer's Control Panel. Select Add/Remove Programs, highlight the old program and hit Remove.

Make sure you installed version 5.0 or later after it was downloaded and try opening the report again.

F.I.R.S.T. FAQ's

F.I.R.S.T. stands for Farmer's Independent Research of Seed Technologies. It is an association of farmers
organized to find newly developed and trait-added seed corn and soybean products that improve their
grain operations.

Farmer members assist in the selection of the test site, coordinate field operations in the spring and provide
all of the inputs except the seed.

Companies willing to sponsor the research decide which products to test and where to test them.
Only a select group of hybrids are tested. Hybrids are tested as a set at several sites and are
tested equally and in three replications at each site.

F.I.R.S.T. was started in 1997 by Kevin Coey. He planted 12 corn sites in Illinois, tested 64 hybrids and had 14 seed corn companies as sponsors. Since that time the program has expanded to include corn and soybean testing. Sites are planted in South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the DelMarva region in Delaware and Maryland.

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