How to Unlock Your Field’s Secrets by Studying Data Layers

By: Adrienne Held

With low grain prices and tight margins, farmers may need to find new ways to stay in the black. The solution could be in their data, says Ryan Stien, go-to-market manager at John Deere.

Looking at harvest yield data and layering on additional information can help unlock a lot of insights, Stien says. “When you have that full dataset,” he notes, “you can really put that to use in making decisions versus just having a binder full of field data from every year.”