12.04.09 - Want Exceptional Yields... Don’t Plant Early…PLAN EARLY!
Today's farmers are smarter and better trained than ever before, and always eager to learn more. They are constantly looking for new and better ideas to combat their two biggest threats to profitability, input costs and market prices. Although agricultural suppliers are the ones who should be leading them in this battle, they're not. Instead, most seed suppliers are only offering to help growers lower their costs, and try to save them into prosperity. That strategy will eventually destroy farmers. It removes any opportunity to achieve exceptional yields, the ONLY solution to overcoming their two biggest threats.
"Exceptional yields do not BEGIN with helter skelter variety selection, upping plant populations or early planting. The number one factor to producing record breaking yields is EARLY PLANNING and many farmers don't plan often or early," says Wayne Dulaney, Lead Agronomist for AgVenture Mid-South, Clarksdale, Mississippi. Wayne has helped more farmers break corn and soybean yield records in the past 5 years than any agronomist in the state of Mississippi. According to Dulaney, most farmers believe that planning for next year's crop can begin anytime or only when market conditions warrant. "They couldn't be more mistaken," Wayne says. "The one thing that everyone of my "yield breaking" farmers have in common is that they ALL complete their cropping plans prior to the beginning of harvest each year. It's amazing how many farmers continue to struggle to achieve higher profits but ignore the very solution to all of their challenges, planning earlier. Farmers who complete their cropping plans by August 1st each year increase yields by approximately 15% to 20% per acre just from the advantages that the early planning process provides to their crop," concludes Dulaney.
Stephen Lary, High Yield Specialist from Madison, Mississippi agrees. According to Lary farmers can't continue to put their crop planning off like they have done in the past. "It's like playing hide and seek with input costs and market prices," says Lary. "You cannot expect to survive long-term doing that," Stephen says. "Farmers need the right information from their Yield Specialist and they need it early. Achieving higher corn and soybean yields through planning is the easiest way to make a return on your investment. However, most aren't getting the kind of help and information they need to make KEY decisions early and achieve much higher corn and soybean yields. Instead, they're getting offers to save comparatively small amounts of money or gifts, the last thing growers need in order to achieve their goals."
"The only goal I have as an Agronomist and High Yield Specialist is help farmers raise yields that they never thought were possible on their farms," says Dulaney. "This in turn allows those farmers to do what they really want to pay down debt, rent or buy more land, retire early, expand their operation or bring a family member into the business. My greatest reward is to see my customers being able to achieve one or more of those goals because they achieved record yields. EVERY farmer can take advantage, but they need to get those cropping plans done much earlier than they have in the past. The secret to high yields and farming success in the 21st century is not early planting, it is EARLY PLANNING." Don't wait another day.
Call your AgVenture High Yield Specialist and get your cropping plan in place now OR contact AgVenture at 877-974-7333. They will put you in touch with your local AgVenture High Yield Specialist. You will be glad you did.