Putting Variable-Rate Seeding to Work on Your Farm

Some corn growers are adopting variable-rate seeding strategies to optimize return from their annual seed investment. Newer and more convenient precision farming tools have made it is easier than ever to deploy a variable-rate input strategy. But growers still need a reliable method to both select variable seeding rates and evaluate whether their strategy ultimately worked.

This article discusses the agronomic basis for changing seeding rates across variable fields and then presents a simple process to determine if a variable-rate seeding strategy actually improved profitability.

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