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2016
NCIS Agronomic
Research Results

By Drs. Mark Zarnstorff and James Houx, NCIS

For more than 90 years, National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) and its predecessor organizations, have conducted loss adjustment research
on growing crops. Updates to, or new loss adjustment procedures have originated from the NCIS
Agriculture Research program, under the direction of the NCIS Board of Directors. Projects are
conducted at university experiment stations and
agricultural colleges across the United States, as
well as some locations in Canada. All projects are
examined over the course of at least three years;
however, if for some reason the results are not obtained for one or more years, the research project
may be extended.
To know which crops need to be addressed,
NCIS relies on company field adjusters, claims
supervisors and university researchers for advice.
The NCIS research program then focuses on designing experiments that will result in data used
to create up-to-date, consistent, and timely loss
adjustment procedures. NCIS currently has 17
research projects across 13 states from Washington to South Carolina, and from Saskatchewan,
Canada, to New Mexico.
In 2016, NCIS performed research on canola,
chickpeas, chile peppers, corn, cotton, soybeans,
potatoes, and wheat, and the results are summarized in this article. It is important that these results are not used exclusively, but combined with
results from previous years' research, and any
subsequent research, to provide the best loss adjustment procedures for NCIS members.
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Chickpea research in Washington.

CANOLASaskatchewan

Research on Saskatchewan canola was done to
reexamine the influence of stem breakage during
the flowering stages of hybrid spring canola
growth and development. Original research was

done in the early 1980s on open pollinated varieties that have very different growth rates and plant
vigor compared to the hybrid varieties grown
currently. This trial was done at two locations just
outside of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, during the

Table 1 CANOLA Saskatchewan
	
Nodes Cut-Off
	 Weeks After 	
Control	25%	 50%	 75%	 100%
	 Flowering			 Lbs/A		

	
	
	
	
	

1 Week	2300	
2 Week	2300	
3 Week	2300	
4 Week	2300	
5 Week	2300	

2143	
2034	
2099	
1848	
1869	

1996	
1978	
1930	
1183	
1166	

1971	 2028
1945	 1592
1637	 1279
906	 774
780	 680


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