Groundhog Day 2025

Punxsutawney Phil is the famous groundhog who has been determining whether farmers will be starting their season earlier or later for decades now! Phil determined on Sunday, February 2nd, 2025, that winter was projected to last another six weeks. With the extension of the winter season, this gives growers opportunities for additional operational enhancements.

The push to implement precision technologies leaves many hesitant without having a straightforward ROI on their operation. Examples of growers that have implemented precision boundaries via SF-RTK/RTK level of accuracy have regained 10% of their acres and profits in addition to other management tools.

Defined Acreage

                  By defining acres farmed you define acres being produced, taxed, and billed to your land. Which leads to inherent precision planting, spraying, and harvesting value shown through reduced inputs, labor, and missed timings.

“With greater precision comes greater profits”

Unplanted acres that are being managed with the current crop, cause many growers losses in income.

Fleet Distribution

                  Once the precision boundaries have been collected it’s important to get those shared across your equipment fleet so that all machines are running at peak performance & accuracy. This is a critical task to get done prior to the season, as to not loose time during spring seeding. Once the fleet is mirrored activation's such as Machine Sync can give operators visual of neighboring tractors in the field to increase planting & harvesting efficiencies.

Operation Center

                  Once the precision boundaries are collected it is then critical to clean up or start a new account on the Operation Center. That way once the data starts streaming its going into your cloud where you can use it for operational decisions. After the farm is fully digitized, machines become visible, and the snow disappears data will start flowing automatically without any additional headaches.

After data collection begins the opportunity to budget equipment passes, inputs, and future crop yields becomes seamless. In addition to standard reporting options that can be used for land leases or governmental programs.

Example of irrigated land that is costing the grower double in irrigation and other inputs due to the lack of precision boundaries.

Accuracy

                  With the added technology it’s important to recognize the need for setup and calibration to ensure you are receiving good data while the machines are working. Setup and calibration of tires/tracks, receivers, and monitors are critical processes to ensure you are producing good data that can be used for management decisions in the future.

Conclusion

                  The ROI of technology can be paid off quicker than most think once things have been setup and customized to your operation. The opportunity for implementation on your farm is just a step away! Reach out to your local dealers or Blue Mountain Agronomy for any questions in implementing this equipment into your operation.

Early adoption of precision tools can provide greater profits the sooner they are implemented!