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SNEAK PEEK: BMPs for variable rate seeding

September 1, 2017
By Top Crop Manager

To stay viable and competitive despite steadily increasing input costs, farmers need to optimize every input. In the future, most farmers will likely use variable rate input application as one of the key tools to achieve that optimization.


However, farmers interested in being early adopters of variable rate seeding (VRS) should know the technology is not as simple as applying it and immediately reaping the rewards.

For example, an even bigger issue than the lack of historical data available is the quality of that data….

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