VRT.. Echelon or Farmers Edge

[farmaholic]

I would be interested in hearing about the cost savings or productivity gains from people who have been doing this for a while.

To me it still seems like hair-splitting, but I could probably benefit with the type of land I farm(rolling with(can be) stingy hilltops and rich lowspots). I need other things first.

[Klause]

So are you just looking for a basic starting map? Or do you plan on using them every year?

[ColevilleH2S]

How can anyone write a VR presciption with any confidence, if they don't know what the growing season weather will be? This tech is almost 20 years old and we are still taking stabs in the dark with it.

[SASKFARMER3]

The 80s were to dry to make it pay. Did save on ammonia at the time. .18 cents a lb really wasn't a big expense compared to now.

[agstar77]

Time for a little reality check. Human nature being what it is no one wants to believe things have gone too far. Maybe they don't need that million dollar house or fancy toy. The Oil industry will recover but there will be painful transition to reality.

[agstar77]

We should all go out and buy some of that fancy overpriced NH equipment in the NH T.V. ad so we can be successful like Jordan.

[JDGreen]

Exactly colleville.. Already have some initial maps and in looking at them some areas seem right and some totally wrong. Most certainly not interested in doing anything unless in my own mind they are completely right.

[SASKFARMER3]

Now that's funny!

[blackpowder]

Again, not doing personnaly so not qualified.
However, my agronomist says her client spends the same $/ac on fertilizer. He has rich rolling land. It evens out the crop maturity and cuts out the lodging.
We feel it would pay on maybe %20 of my acres due to severely variable soil quality. My current drill is not capable. My next one will be. Sectional control being the instant payback on technology.

[farmaholic]

Didn't you know NH smart is smarter than JD smart? And Agco dumb is dumber than IH dumb. KF Farms success hinges on being NH smart and a little greasy....