Central Advantage: Data-Driven Decisions Ashley Boehnke, Precision Agronomy Lead
With harvest underway and yield data starting to come in, the Central Advantage team is focusing on ensuring that all our growers’ data is entered correctly and completely. We are beginning to plan for Data Insights from 2024, a year markedly different from the previous one. We are preparing for reports, grower books, learning centers, and grower meetings that will take place over the coming months. While the final results from this year's management decisions, combined with the weather we experienced, are not fully in yet, we have an idea of what we have to work with and look forward to analyzing it with all our Central Advantage growers.
We end the 2024 crop year with 310,000 total acres in the Central Advantage program, 304,000 of which were planted to corn, corn on corn, or soybeans. This extensive data pool allows us to conduct queries ranging from all CFS territories to local areas within just miles of your bin site. The Central Advantage team also placed a total of 1,324 Enhanced Learning Blocks (ELBs) in 2024. We covered the usual metrics: seed population in corn and soybeans, and nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium rates. This year, we also conducted 61 sulfur rate ELBs and 10 fungicide application ELBs. The fungicide ELBs included on/off blocks, demonstrating how well the technology works to implement these trials. Pictured to the left. Additionally, there are numerous other trials and side-by-side comparisons in the Central Advantage database this year. Our team will collect results from all these trials and share them this winter with our Central Advantage growers to help them make informed management decisions for 2025.
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