Nov 20 2024 32 mins 2
Hosts Brian Shrader and Ben Jacob talk about the 2024 harvest during this episode of the Pioneer Indiana podcast offering some advice for determining whether products used during the 2024 growing season made a difference.
Their most important takeaways:
- It's important to understand how most yield monitors work. Most are just a mass flow sensor, and what they are actually measuring is an impact against a plate. So, a denser sample if going to have more of an impact at the same weight. They are an excellent tool when used properly, but it's still best to have scales on your grain cart.
- If you're testing new agronomic products - go perpendicular to the rows.
- One year of data is pretty challenging to make a decision from. Try to use at least a three-year data set from 30 locations or more.
- As salespeople are knocking on your door for products to use in 2025, if they can't talk to you about the data, don't buy.
