SchnableField

An acct to document some of the maize field life of Schnable Lab at ISU
Collaborations, sensors, imaging & barcodes. All of the barcodes

Acct managed by Lisa

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Me to me: why can to find these seeds of mine from 2011?
….
Checks inventory….

Oh, they’re in agron hall (archive cold room)… guess I put some of my own stocks there once upon a once …

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One of our undergrads, Kara, got a chance to help machine plant today 😀

She did great!

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Know what’s great? These ratchet wrenches I picked up to adjust specific parts on the planter

It’s like a socket set and a wrench

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Me to me:
Let’s be a good tractor operator & map and drive pass 1 quick sans seed to make sure you fit in this new field, that has an unusual shape to it (when planting at heading of 90°)…

😬Oh…. Wait… juuuust barely fits

I’m sure I’ll get some eye roll from farm services😳

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Start of day…. Machine plant next to 1st planted emerging

End of day… jab plant the delays within footprint of 1st planted

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Aaaand, with the rumbles starting up in the sky, Gertie + Hank (tractor and planter) are put to bed for the night after 4 hours & 10 min planting time for 3 ish acre of one project to be planted before next round of rain

#PhotoFinish

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Dear Future Lisa:
Add to your maps how much space you meant to leave for turn radius….

You left too much on the start side and pushed a little deeper than you wanted into a potential low spot in the field :/

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Serenity now… insanity later….

Figuring out someone else’s print system so we can go from our envelopes to their clams….

There are patterns, but of course ‘jumps in patterns’….

Plus some extra clams ‘in case any are are missing… check here’…

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In other planting stories..

Past Lisa ‘coming in clutch’ with all her photos to document various ‘how to’ for tractor and planter …

Helps me out since I only use the tractor and planter for about 2-3 weeks each May… that’s a rough learning curve

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Had to call company planter service technician today between planting maps…

he gave a very valid explanation… but essentially….

And whadya know… it worked 🤣

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Scratched some dirt today

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Whoever said ‘no use crying over spilled seed’ hasn’t knocked over a box of maize genetics seed packet stocks of mutational events & BC series from early 2000’s (so sometimes min genotype written on the packet)

Luckily it’s just 1/4 of the box that fell out and I need to re-org

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Good news:
Current Lisa remembered she needed to watch a video about 2-row plot mapping before she made a map

Better news:
past Lisa kept the video to a ‘tight’ 3.5 min length 🎉🎉

Not surprising news:
Current Lisa was still slightly annoyed with minor prattle on 😆

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Driving home….

All of the thoughts about to do a ‘work around’ on the seed counter…

And then trying to dictate to Siri to have enough ‘same track of train of thought’…

The work around isn��t perfect, but it might be ‘ok enough’ to make some prep work easier next week🤔

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PSA
One video shows 2 blinking lights = tractors driving on the road

Other video is just 1 blinking light = the tractor is going to turn left
That is NOT the time to attempt to pass them

#FarmSafety
#RoadSafety

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Thanks, past Lisa from ‘25 (and team who operated equipment), I updated the equipment notes for how to best handle substitute seed lot

#HopefullyGettingBitBetterEachYear

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This is what I’d expect. I had added a column to the reference chart

Past Lisa had a note to not delete any columns, but present Lisa didn’t see it.
So a new note says don’t add or delete…. We’ll see if it helps future Lisa 🫠

But lucky enough this was a quick fix for a y tho?

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How do I know something went wrong with this formula based and autocolored chart?

That’s way too much of a pattern 🤣

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How do I know something went wrong with this formula based and autocolored chart?

That’s way too much of a pattern 🤣

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Good news, the note sitting on my desk since May of 2025 of ‘why can’t I find bulk packets of this 1 inbred across 3 different year increases?’ has now been resolved
😅

And **not** just by filing away the note in the ‘round filing cabinet’ ie 🗑️

🎉🎉🎉

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Tis the season…
A quick 2,300 printed off

#ResearchFarmer