Crop Treatment Decisions Made Easy

By Farm Futures

This year’s high grain prices make your bottom line even more sensitive to yield losses due to insects, disease or weeds. Yet, making that decision to treat can be difficult. Kevin Dhuyvetter and Doug Jardine of Kansas State University developed a spreadsheet to make your decision easier. It considers the cost of the product, expected yield response, cost of treatment and price of the grain being produced. It even includes sensitivity tables to show you how the anticipated return would change if any of those factors change.