March 2017

InSiteCDM By The Numbers:

Yield Trends The USDA recently released the 2016 yield comparisons by county for both corn and soybeans. That yield data is reported by county in the two tables below. The first table shows the InSite CDM average combination of 1st year corn yields and corn on corn yields were 15 bushels/acre better (195 bu/ac) than the county average corn yields (183 bu/ac) for 2016. The second table shows the InSite CDM average soybean yields were 4.1 bushels/acre better (58 bu/ac) than the county average soybean yields (53 bu/ac) for 2016.

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The 2016 and 2015 growing seasons were high yielding years for almost everyone. What is great to see is that even when other growers raise large yields due in part to ideal weather conditions, our InSiteCDM growers continue to achieve even higher yields! The extra tools we utilize through InSiteCDM continue to bring you higher yields than that of your neighbors.

How does your farm’s average yield compare to your county’s average yield? If your farm’s aver-age yield is not increasing over the average yield of the counties you farm in, have a frank discussion with your Ag Partners Sales Agronomist to explore the reasons why. Here are a few questions to con-sider during your discussion:

- What changes have you adopted since you joined the InSiteCDM program?

- What have you seen in the data that justifies/war-rants other changes that need to be made?

- What kind of environment do you farm in? Obviously, the environment you are in is going to impact your yield potential. If you are farming very unforgiving soils, increasing efficiency will be just as important as yield increases.

More and more, we are seeing “Me Too!” companies entering the space currently occupied by InSiteCDM. Naturally, these companies have a lot of money behind them and their marketing machines are running in high gear. One thing we don’t do very well is toot our own horn. We have the best tool in the market for creating your management zones, and we need to make sure you know it. Essentially, anyone can create a management zone, but that doesn’t mean they’re all created equal.

If you’re utilizing the InSiteCDM management zone tool to its fullest potential, you understand. You know we use more than just soil types and yield data to define your zones. You’ve talked with your Sales Agronomist about overlaying aerial images and soil test data with proven yield history to define and further refine your zones. You’ve sorted your acres by pH and bumped soybean population in those high pH testing environments to increase yield. You’ve done this while cutting soybean populations in high production areas in order to save significant costs on soybean seed while maintaining yields. You’ve done this while some seed companies try to get you to increase soybean seeding rates in these areas. You’ve brought in Soil EC data/maps and your “As Applied” Nitrogen maps as overlays while working with your SA to develop and refine your zones because you recognize the need to match the corn seeding rate to your ground’s potential AND your N management practices. You know how powerful it is because you’ve had conversations with your SA about the row spacing you intend to utilize and the tillage practices you perform and how these variables affect your seeding rate and variety selection decisions. You have fully bought in to what we’re doing because you have started applying your P and K by the zones you had initially established for seeding rates. You have recognized the need to feed your highest producing areas with the most fertility, while understanding that there is no need to over fertilize areas of the field that will never produce as much as the best areas of your field.

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InSiteCDM Tools:Management Zone Development

We’re accounting for so many things that some of our competitors have either missed, or don’t have the capability to use, but these things matter. Your acres cannot be farmed from a distant city. Whether you have an Ag Leader, John Deere, Case IH or Precision Planting monitor in your cab, it does not record everything that you do in your operation. Before you entrust your zone creating to anyone else, ask yourself if they are accounting for the manure history on each of your fields, your tillage practices, or whether or not you are on a narrow row spacing. Do they know what influenced yield on a particular field that you are sending in for zone creation? Was that low yielding area a typical response or was it influenced by extra rain, not enough rain or hail? For a lot of these programs, if the data doesn’t come from your monitor, then they are not accounting for it in their zone creation.

We’re not attempting to predict or “model” weather with InSiteCDM. We know you can’t analyze the past enough to predict what Mother Nature is going to do in the future. What we can do is use your data to improve recommendations we provide. With the greeN Rx nitrogen recommendation, we are going to be more efficient with your nitrogen use than we ever have be-fore. We are going to account for the things that are not recorded in your monitor – these include features like your soils’ OM, the time of year you intend to complete your application of nitrogen, whether or not you are using a nitrogen stabilizer, what you applied for P and K fertility and what your soils’ current level of P & K is, and finally, your fields’ production potential by zone based on past yields.

The bottom line is this: A lot of these other companies have some pretty “zoomy” features in their programs. Some are even useful if you are looking for quick and easy ways to share data to the cloud or link machines together in real time in the field. All we ask of you is that you figure out what you are really looking for and what you really need. Pay for the features that will bring value to your operation. At a minimum, please make sure you understand all of the benefits and features InSiteCDM can bring to you with our management zone development tool before you spend money on some other program that promises “cheaper” management zone development. If you don’t understand all of the CDM benefits today, ask your SA to explain them. The most important thing that sets our zone development apart from the competition is knowledge of your field! You have that knowledge and your SA has that knowledge. We start with this knowledge and we build on that with the InSiteCDM Manage-ment Zone Tool. Refer to the enclosed insert: “Management Zone Creation Comparison” to see all of the tools available to us vs. the competition. Please contact your Ag Partners Sales Agronomist to get started on your 2017 zone creation, if you haven’t already started this process!

Ag Partners Climate Pioneer Winfield GoogleManagement Zone Creation Tools InSiteCDM Fieldview Encirca R7 FBNGrower Involvment in Set Up/Refinement √ √ √ √ No

Local Agronomist/Trusted Advisor Refinement √ √ √ √ NoSingle Year Yield Data Integration √ √ √ √ No

Multiple Years of SELECTABLE Yield Data √ No √ No NoGrid Soil Sample Results (OM, pH, P, K, CEC) Overlays √ No No No No

Create Zones based on defined ranges of fertility (i.e. pH) √ No No No NoCurrent Year Fertilizer Application Files (N, P and K) Overlays √ No No No NoMultiple Years of Past Fertilizer (P and K) Removal Overlays √ No No No No

High Resolution Aerial Imagery √ No No No NoLow Resolution Sattellite Imagery √ √ No √ No

Multiple Years of Past Chemical Applications (i.e. fungicide) √ No No No NoMultiple Years of Past Variety Splits √ No No No No

Soil EC Data/Mapping √ No No No NoSoil Types √ √ √ √ No

Soil Sub‐Order √ No √ No No

*Disclaimer: Competitor's programs are listed to the best of our knowledge and are current at the time of creation.  Updates will be made as needed.

*Not all Management Zones are created equally!  

The GROWER and HIS TRUSTED ADVISOR!**Two of the most important factors in creating an EFFECTIVE management zone are:

Management Zone Creation Comparison

Don't settle for quick and easy ‐ USE ALL of the tools you have available!

For More Information contact your

Ag Partners Sales Agronomist

Being a part of InSite CDM this year we are allowing

you access to in-season imagery at no additional

cost through Winfield’s R7 Tool.

You’ll be able to access your fields and imagery

through their website - all you need to do is sign up

for a username and password.

Also, if you have fields that you do not have yield

history on we can build VR planting maps based off

imagery

You have the opportunity to:

See season-long crop development variability in

each field

Scout parts of your field to diagnose issues to

defend each fields yield potential

Use current imagery to create a plan to zone

tissue sample for plant nutrition deficiencies

Apply crop protection products to defend against

diseases and insects

Evaluate performance of in-season management

decisions at the end of the season

Compare split field trials to evaluate plant nutri-

tion or crop protection strategies

In-season imagery program is supported by

multiple constellations of satellites

Imagery enables in-season NDVI maps and

management down to 5m