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One significant factor is locations' market potential, approximated by the proportion of planting acreage, which inversely affects the likelihood of a location being selected before the entrance of FIRST in 2008."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Company participation in soybean variety testing programs in Illinois"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Hutchins, Jared P.","Michelson, Hope","Irwin, Scott"],"dc:creator":["Li, Zhe"],"dc:date":["2022-08","2022-07-05"],"dc:description":["This Thesis was approved for publication on 2022-07-05 at 13:57.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #18131 on 2022-11-15 at 19:16:55","Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01","The student, Zhe Li, accepted the attached license on 2022-07-01 at 13:44.","The student, Zhe Li, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2022-07-01 at 13:57.","This thesis analyzes location characteristics that affect companies' selection of testing regions in variety trials in Illinois. 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