When a producer evaluates what is necessary to grow a good crop, there are very few inputs that can be forgone.  At that point, our objective is to make sure every necessary input is applied at a proper rate at the proper time.  Our focus needs to be on efficiency. A producer’s currency is bushels and pounds.  Without enough ‘currency’, bills cannot be paid.  Typically, when someone cuts back inputs, yield suffers more than the cost of the input.  That can be a hard concept to accept, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any opportunities to save money.

Savings can also be made by going back to the fundamentals. When the prices are higher, it becomes easier to add a little more of something, or try an unproven or marginal product, because our mindset at that time is that ‘it won’t cost me that much more’.  We can help reinforce when it is proper to play offense or defense when it comes to applying inputs.

More often than not, delaying decisions lead to both poor performance and loss of yield. In these situations, we have lost twice first from wasting the money spent on the input, and second, the loss of production.

Weeds are one of the biggest robbers of yield that we have. Even getting 90-95% control of weeds can still cause up to 15% reduction, especially if weeds are present in the early developmental stages of the crop. That starts with utilizing spring burn down herbicides, followed by a robust pre emerge herbicide program just the foundation to season-long control.

AI emerges as a critical catalyst for revolutionizing traditional customer interaction paradigms. Lastly, attention is drawn to ethical considerations and privacy concerns inherent in AI-driven customer underscoring the importance of responsible AI implementation.