Building The Framework For Advancing Nitrogen Management

By: Tyler Harris

Nitrogen and water are two of the biggest line-item investments associated with corn production. As growers in Nebraska and Iowa strive to optimize efficiency and profitability for their investment in fertilizer and water, Central Valley Ag is bringing together a group of producers to help drive adoption of technology and management at the producer level to meet these goals.

The advisory group, organized by CVA’s Mike Zwingman, agronomy research and development manager, and Keith Byerly, Advanced Cropping Systems manager, held its first meeting in early February. “Keith and I kept coming back to the same thing: In our industry, product development usually occurs from the top down, and only at end of development do they factor in the user experience,” says Zwingman. “We thought, why not bring a group of our owners together and help guide us along the way, hopefully to develop and implement technologies that have a high amount of impact on the operation?”