Harvest is where an entire season of decisions comes together. Hybrid selection, population, fertility, weather, and management all play a role in the final result. But once the combine leaves the field, the value of that information shouldn’t stop there.
With tools like SeedIQ™ in FARMserver®, your harvest data can help turn what happened this season into better-informed decisions for the next one.
Good Data In, Better Decisions Out
The quality of any analysis starts with the quality of the data. Accurate hybrid information, crop setup, and a properly calibrated yield monitor can make a big difference in how useful your harvest data is later.
Keep those scale tickets handy. FARMserver allows you to post-calibrate your yield data after harvest, giving you another opportunity to make sure it accurately reflects what came out of the field.
Once that information is in FARMserver, you can start digging deeper than a whole-field average:
- Which hybrids performed best and where?
- How did different populations perform?
- Did certain products perform better on specific soil types?
- Where are the consistently high- and low-performing areas?
- Did a management decision provide the response you expected?
Better Yield Data Builds a Better Foundation for SeedIQ
Accurate harvest data also gives SeedIQ a clearer picture of how your fields have actually performed. While SeedIQ can utilize soil map data when yield history isn’t available, quality yield data adds another layer of information from your own acres.
As you build multiple years of yield history in FARMserver, that information can help SeedIQ better account for differences in productivity across a field and refine product recommendations for your operation.
In other words, you aren’t just saving yield maps. You’re building a useful history of your farm that can help turn past performance into future decisions.
Don’t Just Collect It. Use It.
As an industry, we don’t have a data collection problem. The bigger challenge is putting that data to work in real-world applications. There is a lot of valuable information coming out of the combine this fall. Don’t let it sit on a monitor, thumb drive, or computer and never get looked at again. Get it into FARMserver and start putting it to work.
Thank you for using Beck’s FARMserver.
Beck’s FARMserver Team