Provantage

By: Chase Gingerich, ProVantage Specialist and Agronomy Sales

Every year the weather is one of the most challenging aspects of business that every farmer has to deal with. The 2019 growing season reminded us of this and how little control we have. Managing a farm is a balance of making a plan, executing a plan, and calling audibles for the elements that are beyond our control. To learn from the challenges that we faced, we need to ask ourselves how can we turn those challenges into actionable opportunities? What can we learn from our data to maximize the factors that are within our control and to make those audible calls easier to make? More

By: Chase Gingerich, ProVantage Specialist and Agronomy Sales

Now is the time for decision agriculture: to move to the next frontier of improving management decisions with spatially collected farm data. Although spatial data is already being collected with the latest GPS equipment, many growers are struggling to know what to do with their data. By layering and analyzing this data, decision agriculture gives farmers the opportunity to manage inputs by every foot and optimize each field’s performance, extending well beyond the obvious regions of drainage tile needs or the basic data used to evaluate seed varieties. Decision ag analytics gives growers the confidence to make the most effective plans based on their own data. With today’s thin margins in the ag economy, the need for employing and embracing a decision agriculture mindset is evident. More