Special Report

Precision planter is one piece of FieldScripts platform

Gregg Sauder knows corn planters. He founded Precision Planting and has developed and retrofitted machines to increase their accuracy in putting seeds in the ground. That precision is now part of Monsanto’s Integrated Farm Systems and FieldScripts. That, says Sauder, is the science of genetics coupled with a planter that has the ability to react to signals from an iPad collecting cloud-based data about specific fields. A new planter is not necessary, Sauder tells Brownfield Ag News, but retrofitting an existing planter involves an investment of about $1,000 per row. That, says Sauder, results in a difference in yields. “This is ten bushel plus, right out of the gate,” he says. “These are the types of things we’re excited about.”

AUDIO: Gregg Sauder (4 min. MP3)