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Recall from the introduction that on-farm research provides a way of dealing with the problem of field and environmental variability. In comparing the effects of different practices (treatments), you need to know if the effects that you observe in the crop or in the field are simply a product of the natural variation that occurs in every ecological system, or whether those changes are truly a result of the new practices that you have implemented.