Evaluate the suitability and limitations of typical production practices for implementing identity preservation.

Develop GIS and software tools for tracking and managing identity information for grain crops.

Demonstrate an IP production system on three commodities (corn, wheat and soybeans) in Kentucky.

Provide results, protocols, directions, and software to other producers and processors through Extension workshops, field days, and meetings.

To determine the net profit potential and profit variability (risk) farmers in Kentucky could realize from growing these IP grains: edible beans, food-grade corn, corn grown for poultry companies, and wheat grown for Seimer Grain.

To compare and contrast features of the various IP contracts such as price premiums, grain discounts, etc.

To publish an enterprise analysis of the IP grains listed in Objective 1.

To determine under what conditions the IP contracts prove most beneficial.