CropLife Interview

Preparing for spring planting will limit down time and increase the likelihood that your seeds will thrive. Properly calibrating your planter will improve seed spacing accuracy, which will reduce seed competition and ensure proper seeding depth. Adding talc or graphite in the planter hopper with seed can eliminate stickiness or clumping and can aid in better seed flow while planting.

Some of you may be in the heat of harvest while others are gearing up to begin shortly. Here are some considerations to think through as you plan to collect quality yield data that you can use for future management decisions.

Whether through composite, grid, and zone sampling, precision ag technologies are creating higher-yielding ground for farmers of all sizes.