Progress 05/01/18 to 04/30/23
Outputs
Target Audience:The project seeks to connect high school students with interest in urban agriculture to opportunities in agricultural engineering and business by inviting them to participate in a five-day residence camp that exposes them to production agriculture, farm management and economics, and mechanization. Additionally, the upgrading and redesign of old combines is intended to assist the farming industry to bring older equipment to today safety standards. The designs for the upgrades are posted on the web under "grab cad". This farmers can get the designs, send them to a fabrication company and have the parts and sheilding made for thier older equipement Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?• Three undergraduate Agricultural Engineering students were mentored by the co-PIs to obtain internal grant funding and to develop the curriculum for the summer agricultural sciences camp. • Two interns from Century College were mentored to assist with the summer camp. • Eight undergraduate Agricultural Engineering Technology students were mentored to develop safety shielding for the 1938 pull-type combine. • Two undergraduate Agricultural Engineering student was mentored to conduct market research, safety review and to develop safety shielding and warning decals for the pull-type combine. • Three undergraduate students in Agricultural Economics have worked on evaluating the profitability of small grain enterprises • Two undergraduate students: one Agricultural Engineering Technology (ATE) and one from Agricultural Economics (AEc) was mentored by PI Howry. The ATE student worked on the design of for implinations of the stripper header for the combine. The AEc student helped with the implinations of the design. Also help test the combine in the field and gathered data from the frield. • The AEc student resigned the material for the AgCamp to for a virtual dissemination. • One undergraduate student in Agricultural Economics wrote a paper on the profitability of small grain enterprise. Also worked up update the case study used in the classroom, mentored by PI Howry • One undergraduate in Agricultural Engineering Technology worked to implement the designs for correcting the grain lose from the combine, mentored by PI Howy and assistant professor Zeng. • Two undergraduates in Agricultural Engineering Technology worked to identify where the grain is the combing from and design additionally modifications • One publication by professor Zeng along with his undergraduate research student has published a paper. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Fifty- six high school students underrepresented in agricultural sciences and engineering participated in a one-week camp, exposing them to plant development, agricultural economics and engineering. There has been five poster presentation at a national conference on the implication of the resign for the combine, on the week long camp, and on the case studies used in the collage classes. Also, the design of safety housings has be posted on the web in GrabCad. GrabCad is a place that anyone can access the design and then send to a fabrication shop to be made. The farmer and then easily put the safety housing on their old combines. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Goal 1 of this project was to "provide undergraduate research opportunities in the design and evaluation of agricultural machines." Goal 1 of the project has provided research opportunities for eight undergraduate students in the areas of Agricultural Engineering (AEn), Agricultural Engineering Technology (ATE), and Agricultural Economics (AEc). Two students developed curricula for a pilot of the week-long summer camp (goal 3) and two were involved with procuring, refurbishing and improving the safety aspects of the pull-type combine. Six undergraduate Agricultural Engineering Technology students have been engaged in fabricating and installing safety shields on the combine per the design established by the summer intern supported by this project in consultation with the industry safety consultant, Larry Johnson, P.E. A second safety instruction of the Allis-Chalmers All-Crop was completed by Larry Johnson, P.E. With respect to safety the All-Crop has met the safety standards that were outlined in the first report. The following accomplishments were made with respect to goal (1a): "Determine the requirements of a pull-type combine for small-grains." Co-PI Digman and the summer intern developed a survey to determine the functional requirements of a modern, pull-type combine. The survey included cost, power and feature requirements. The survey was delivered to a list of one-row sweet corn harvesters; the list was provided by Oxbo International Corporation, Clear Lake, WI. These data will inform next year's harvester design. In addition to the survey work, a 1939 Allis-Chalmers All-Crop combine was purchased. This machine is widely used by today's small farms producing small grains. The Allis has provided the basis for the safety review and shielding design effort and will be operated in the field next season to provide baseline performance and power information. In addition to the safety review, the combine has been refurbished with new draper and drive belts. All modifications will be documented and disseminated so that producers employing this technology can adapt our safety improvements to their machines. 1b. Design and fabrication of the safety shielding has been completed. The resign of the combine header to a stripper header for the Allis-Chalmers All-Crop did not prove useful in field study. Therefore helped to inform that the next combine did not need to be an All-Crop, so an Oliver combine was purchased and is currently being brought up to safety standards. The problem with the All-Crop was the head could not be adjusted to the right height to all optimal grain separation. 1c Initial performance has be started for the first combine, but more data is needed. 1d. Most of the safety shield designed have been made available to open source CAD design website. Goal 2 of this project was to "providing undergraduate research experience in evaluating the profitability of small grain enterprises". Goal 2 two undergraduate students in Agricultural Economics have worked on evaluating the profitability of small grain enterprises. 2a. and 2b, one AEc student worked on collecting economic data, analyzing, and evaluating the data. A paper has been written and we will be presenting the paper at a conference in summer 2021. Additionally, a case study has been written as been used in the classroom to help student gain a deeper understanding of how to utilize enterprise budgets for small grain farming. Goal 3 of the project was to "introduce high-school students to (3a) career opportunities in agricultural sciences" does not received funding from the project until year 3; however, the co-PIs have engaged the TRIO program to pilot the one-week summer camp during this reporting period. The curriculum developed by undergraduate PIs and two summer interns from Century College, Lake Elmo, MN, was used to instruct 36 high school students from Washington Technology Magnet High School, St. Paul, MN. The pilot camp provided a chance to refine the curriculum as well as the opportunity to study outcomes. Comparing our pre and post surveys, we found that students were more likely to consider careers in agriculture after their experience. Summer of 2020 was the third year for running the Ag camp at UWRF. Since we were in the middle of a pandemic, the camp was delivered in a virtual format. The AEc student revised the week long curriculum to make the summer camp available as an online camp. While the change was unexpected, the outcome made for some interesting findings. We learned a lot about how to deliver information to high school students. 3c, the biggest challenge was teaching high school students how the design process. Since they did not have access to the software, this goal was accomplished through videos and simple hands on designing. While we might not do this again, the students stated they learned from the experience. 3a, during the camp we exposed the students to different fields of agriculture. 3b, the entire camp was based on an example of managing a small-scale farm and how decisions made even a year out and affect the outcome of the farm. We discovered that hosting this type of camp virtually was very difficult for the students, because many of them did not have access to the software needed or the ability to download any software. Since we are still in the middle of a pandemic and our university did not allow for any on-campus camps, there was not an Ag Camp offered for summer 2021. However, the material is ready to use whenever our school start having on campus high school camps.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2023
Citation:
Tian, Y.; Leis, K.; Zeng, Z. Retrofitting and Testing of a Pull-Type Small-Grain Combine Harvester. Agronomy 2023, 13, 1057.
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Progress 05/01/21 to 04/30/22
Outputs
Target Audience:The project seeks to connect high school students with interest in urban agriculture to opportunities in agricultural engineering and business by inviting them to participate in a five-day residence camp that exposes them to production agriculture, farm management and economics, and mechanization. Additionally, the upgrading and redesign of old combines is intended to assist the farming industry to bring older equipment to today safety standards. The designs for the upgrades are posted on the web under "grab cad". This farmers can get the designs, send them to a fabrication company and have the parts and sheilding made for thier older equipement. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?One undergraduate student in Agricultural Economics wrote a paper on the profitability of small grain enterprise. Also worked up update the case study used in the classroom, mentored by PI Howry One undergraduate in Agricultural Engineering Technology worked to implement the designs for correcting the grain lose from the combine, mentored by PI Howy and assistant professor Zeng. Two undergraduates in Agricultural Engineering Technology worked to identify where the grain is the combing from and design additionally modifications. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?There has been one poster presentation at a national conference on the implication of the resign for the combine. Also, the design of safety housings has be posted on the web in GrabCad. GrabCad is a place that anyone can access the design and then send to a fabrication shop to be made. The farmer and then easily put the safety housing on their old combines. . What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Continue to modify the Oliver combine to make the sure the seeds gathered from the stripper header will be taken into the combine for refining. Currently there is substantial seed loss. Plan to track down were the seed loss is coming from and how to correct the problem.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Goal 1 of the project was to "provide undergraduate research opportunities in the design and evaluation of agricultural machines." The undergraduate students, two from Agricultural Engineering Technology (AEE) and one from Agricultural Economics (AEc), were engaged in this research. A 1950s Oliver combine was purchased least year. Summer of 20 tests showed that additional modifications needed to be completed on the Oliver to decrease grain lose. One of the ATE student worked on design modifications for the Oliver (1a). One of the AET students worked on new modification design for the Oliver combine over the summer. Which allowed for a second test of the Oliver (1b). 1c, the second test of the combine showed that more modifications need to be made because there was still substantial grain loss. Over the fall 2021, two AET worked on a new design for the combine and this spring (2022), will start making the modifications to the combine. 1d, since there needed to be more modifications to the combine, the design has yet to be disseminated. The design will be disseminated once we get a more efficient working machine. Goal 2 of the project "providing undergraduate research experience in evaluating the profitability of small grain enterprises" was mostly accomplished over this reporting period. 2a and 2b, one AEc student worked on collecting economic data, analyzing, and evaluating the data. A paper was written and was presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) annual conference. Additionally, a case study was written and has been used in the classroom for three semesters to help student gain a deeper understanding of how to utilize enterprise budgets for small grain farming. Goal 3 of the project "introduce high-school school agriculture". Ag Camp was ran for three summers, 2018, 2019, and virtually 2020. We discovered last year that hosting this type of camp virtually was very difficult for the students, because many of them did not have access to the software needed or the ability to download any software. Since we are still in the middle of a pandemic and our university did not allow for any on-campus camps, there was not an Ag Camp offered for summer 2021. However, the material is ready to use whenever our school start having on campus high school camps.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Howry, S., E. Ratliff. 2021. Teaching Enterprise Budgets: Case Using Small Pull Behind Harvester for Small Scale Farming . Annual Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Meetings, Austin, TX.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Jungbluth, A., S. Howry, E. Ratliff. 2021. Evaluating the Profitability of a Small Grain Enterprise and a Novel Pull Behind Combine for Small Scale Farming in Western Wisconsin . Annual Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Meetings, Austin, TX.
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Progress 05/01/20 to 04/30/21
Outputs
Target Audience:The project seeks to connect high school students with interest in urban agriculture to opportunities in agricultural engineering and business by inviting them to participate in a five-day online camp that exposes them to production agriculture, farm management and economics, and mechanization. While in original proposal it was planning to have the students on campus, due to the pandemic the camp was taught on-line and this was very successful. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Two undergraduate students: one Agricultural Engineering Technology (ATE) and one from Agricultural Economics (AEc) was mentored by PI Howry. The ATE student worked on the design of for implinations of the stripper header for the combine. The AEc student helped with the implinations of the design. Also help test the combine in the field and gathered data from the frield. The AEc student resigned the material for the AgCamp to for a virtual dissemination. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Twenty high school students underrepresented in agricultural sciences and engineering participated in a one-week camp, exposing them to plant development, agricultural economics and engineering. There has been one poster presentation at a national conference on the implication of the resign for the combine. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Continue to modify the Oliver combine to make the sure the seeds gathered from the stripper header will be taken into the combine for refining. Currently there is substantial seed loss. Plan to track down were the seed loss is coming from and how to correct the problem.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Goal 1 of the project was to "provide undergraduate research opportunities in the design and evaluation of agricultural machines." Two undergraduate students, one from Agricultural Engineering Technology (ATE) and one from Agricultural Economics (AEc), were engaged in this research. A 1950s Oliver combine was purchased in the last part of last year reporting. The ATE student worked on design modifications for the Oliver (1a). Due to the pandemic the ATE student was only able to work a small amount of time on the actual combine before graduating. However, he did consult with the AEc student about how to finish out the modifications that were designed for the Oliver combine over the summer. Which allowed for the first test of the Oliver (1b). 1c, the first test of the combine showed that more modifications need to be made because there was substantial grain loss. 1d, since there needed to be more modifications to the combine, the design has yet to be disseminated. The design will be disseminated once we get a more efficient working machine. Goal 2 of the project "providing undergraduate research experience in evaluating the profitability of small grain enterprises" was mostly accomplished over this reporting period. 2a and 2b, one AEc student worked on collecting economic data, analyzing, and evaluating the data. A paper has been written and we will be presenting the paper at a conference in summer 2021. Additionally, a case study has been written as been used in the classroom to help student gain a deeper understanding of how to utilize enterprise budgets for small grain farming. Goal 3 of the project "introduce high-school school agriculture". Summer of 2020 was the third year for running the Ag camp at UWRF. Since we were in the middle of a pandemic, the camp was delivered in a virtual format. The AEc student revised the week long curriculum to make the summer camp available as an online camp. While the change was unexpected, the outcome made for some interesting findings. We learned a lot about how to deliver information to high school students. 3c, the biggest challenge was teaching high school students how the design process. Since they did not have access to the software, this goal was accomplished through videos and simple hands on designing. While we might not do this again, the students stated they learned from the experience. 3a, during the camp we exposed the students to different fields of agriculture. 3b, the entire camp was based on an example of managing a small-scale farm and how decisions made even a year out and affect the outcome of the farm.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Legare, A. N. Hovel, D. Foerster, S. Howry, M. Digman. 2020. "Economic Impact of Novel Pull-Type Combines have on Production of Small Grains for Small Farms." Annual Southern Agricultural Economics Association Meetings, Louisville, KY.
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Progress 05/01/19 to 04/30/20
Outputs
Target Audience:The project seeks to connect high school students with interest in urban agriculture to opportunities in agriculturalengineering and business by inviting them to participate in a five-day residence camp that exposes them to productionagriculture, farm management and economics, and mechanization Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? • Two undergraduate Agricultural Engineering students were mentored by the co-PIs to obtain to revise the curriculum for the summer agricultural sciences camp. * Three undergraduate Agricultural Engineering and Agricultural Engineering Technology there involved in improving the safety aspects of the pull-type combine. • Two interns from Century College were mentored by co-PI Digman to assist with the summer camp. • Two undergraduate students in Agricultural Economics have worked on evaluating the profitability of small grain enterprises How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?There has been two poster presentations at national conferences. At one conference the information about the week long camp was presented and was very well recieved. At the other conference the overall objectives of the grant were presented and may questions were asked about how combine would be utlizied at the end of this project. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Finish bring the combines up to current safty standards. Continue the research on the profiability of small grain enterprises. Convert the material for the one-week camp to an online version.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Goal 1 of the project has provided additional research opportunities for five undergraduate students in the areas of Agricultural Engineering (AEn), Agricultural Engineering Technology (ATE), and Agricultural Economics. The three AEn and ATE students were engaged in this research during the second reporting period. Two of these student revised the week-long summer camp (goal 3) and all three there involved in improving the safety aspects of the pull-type combine. A second safety instruction of the Allis-Chalmers All-Crop was completed by Larry Johnson, P.E. With respect to safety the All-Crop has met the safety standards that were outlined in the first report. 1a. was accomplished in the first reporting period. 1b. Design and fabrication of the safety shielding has been completed. The resign of the combine header to a stripper header for the Allis-Chalmers All-Crop did not prove useful in field study. Therefore helped to inform that the next combine did not need to be an All-Crop, so an Oliver combine was purchased and is currently being brought up to safety standards. The problem with the All-Crop was the head could not be adjusted to the right height to all optimal grain separation. 1c Initial performance has be started for the first combine, but more data is needed. 1d. Most of the safety shield designed have been made available to open source CAD design website. Goal 2 of the project is now underway: two undergraduate students in Agricultural Economics have worked on evaluating the profitability of small grain enterprises. 2a. and 2b, data has been and is currently gathered to complete enterprise budgets that will help to determine the economic production and impact of small grains using a pull-type combine. Goal 3 of the project "introducing high-school students to 3a, 3b, and 3c..." through a week-long camp has now to run for two summers. This year there were 15 high school students from Washington Technology Magnet High School, St. Paul, MN. We plan to continue with the camp for this next summer as a virtual camp.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Hovel, N., S. Payne, S. Howry, M. Digman. 2019. High School Outreach Curriculum Development: Introducing High School Students to Various Aspects of Farming through an Agricultural Camp. Annual Southern Agricultural Economics Association Meetings, Birmingham, Alabama.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Legare, A., N. Hovel, D. Foerster, S. Howry, M. Digman. 2019. "Economic Impact of Novel Pull-Type Combine Have on Production of Small Grains for Small Farms." Annual NARRU Conference, San Angelo, TX
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Progress 05/01/18 to 04/30/19
Outputs
Target Audience:The project seeks to connect high school students with interest in urban agriculture to opportunities in agricultural engineering and business by inviting them to participate in a five-day residence camp that exposes them to production agriculture, farm management and economics, and mechanization. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Two undergraduate Agricultural Engineering students were mentored by the co-PIs to obtain internal grant funding and to develop the curriculum for the summer agricultural sciences camp. Two interns from Century College were mentored by co-PI Digman to assist with the summer camp. Six undergraduate Agricultural Engineering Technology students were mentored by co-PI Digman to develop safety shielding for the 1938 pull-type combine. One undergraduate Agricultural Engineering student was mentored by co-PI Digman to conduct market research, safety review and to develop safety shielding and warning decals for the pull-type combine. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Thirty-six high school students underrepresented in agricultural sciences and engineering participated in a one-week camp, exposing them to plant development, agricultural economics and engineering. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Goal 1 of this project was to "provide undergraduate research opportunities in the design and evaluation of agricultural machines." Four undergraduate Agricultural Engineering students were engaged in this research during the first reporting period. Two students developed curricula for a pilot of the week-long summer camp (goal 3) and two were involved with procuring, refurbishing and improving the safety aspects of the pull-type combine. Six undergraduate Agricultural Engineering Technology students have been engaged in fabricating and installing safety shields on the combine per the design established by the summer intern supported by this project in consultation with the industry safety consultant, Larry Johnson, P.E. The following accomplishments were made with respect to goal (1a): "Determine the requirements of a pull-type combine for small-grains." Co-PI Digman and the summer intern developed a survey to determine the functional requirements of a modern, pull-type combine. The survey included cost, power and feature requirements. The survey was delivered to a list of one-row sweet corn harvesters; the list was provided by Oxbo International Corporation, Clear Lake, WI. These data will inform next year's harvester design. In addition to the survey work, a 1939 Allis-Chalmers All-Crop combine was purchased. This machine is widely used by today's small farms producing small grains. The Allis has provided the basis for the safety review and shielding design effort and will be operated in the field next season to provide baseline performance and power information. In addition to the safety review, the combine has been refurbished with new draper and drive belts. All modifications will be documented and disseminated so that producers employing this technology can adapt our safety improvements to their machines. Progress on objectives 1b, 1c and 1d has not yet begun. Goal 2 involved "providing undergraduate research experience in evaluating the profitability of small grain enterprises." Funding for this goal does not begin until year 2; however, Co-PI Howry has collaborated with Co-PI Digman to mentor a team of students to provide a week-long summer camp. These students obtained an internal grant to fund their work. The third goal to "introduce high-school students to (3a) career opportunities in agricultural sciences" does not received funding from the project until year 3; however, the co-PIs have engaged the TRIO program to pilot the one-week summer camp during this reporting period. The curriculum developed by undergraduate PIs and two summer interns from Century College, Lake Elmo, MN, was used to instruct 36 high school students from Washington Technology Magnet High School, St. Paul, MN. The pilot camp provided a chance to refine the curriculum as well as the opportunity to study outcomes. Comparing our pre and post surveys, we found that students were more likely to consider careers in agriculture after their experience. We plan to pilot the camp again in year two.
Publications
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