Managing for Profit

Using Variable Rate Seeding to increase yield

Variable rate seeding with Pioneer’s Encirca services delivers prescriptions that are tailored to each field to help establish stands that maximize early-season yield potential.

On this Managing for Profit, a content partnership with Encirca Services, Chris Kluemke, Digital Services Manager with Encirca Services tells Brownfield to maximize variable-rate seeding Decision Zones must be defined. Decision Zones can include soil types, topography, irrigation, and long-term yield history. The more data, the better.

Determining the optimum seeding rates for your fields can have a major effect on the financial results of your growing season. Kluemke says it is well worth the time to review the possibilities of a variable rate seeding plan.

“If a farmer can make more yield, that’s more dollars to his bottom line, and that’s what it’s all about, whether they do variable rate seeding on their own, they do it with a seed agent, or they use the services of a CSA.”