A successful harvest is a combination of hard work, careful planning and good weather. While we can’t control the rain, your Co-op Grow Team has the expertise, technology and tools to help you do the work – and we’re ready to provide expert, local advice to make a plan.
Start with your soil
If your soil could talk, what would it say? Work with your Co-op Grow Team to collect and interpret soil sampling data to understand exactly what your soil needs to maximize yields.
Then, you’re ready to make a crop plan to set your farm up for success. Our experts can help you:
- Know your fields to manage pests, weeds and disease
Tracking your field-by-field challenges helps guide smart crop rotations and targeted pesticide applications to improve efficacy and deliver better returns on investment.
- Plan your inputs to enhance financial planning
Accurate budgeting for crop input needs will help estimate your seasonal expenses with greater precision.
- Explore scenarios to prepare for the unexpected
Developing multiple crop plans for different growing conditions and external factors means you’ll be ready to respond to weather variability such as drought, excessive rainfall or late spring, market shifts, input availability or cost changes, pest or disease outbreaks and regulatory or sustainability requirements.
Continuous improvement driven by data
Co-op Grow Team members use the latest on-farm technology to gather, organize and analyze information. Our full-service agronomic tool, AgZone FIELD, collects data from yield monitors, satellite imagery, soil maps and sampling, scouting reports and crop reports, then provides analytics to evaluate yield performance, calculate returns and guide future decisions.
- MORE: AgZone FIELD
Grown with Purpose is a comprehensive on-farm program that evaluates your current agronomic practices, builds a customized crop plan focused on nutrient-use efficiency, soil health and safe work practices, and helps you set short- and long-term goals for improving farm performance. Overall, it demonstrates that your crops are grown with consideration for air, soil and water quality.
- MORE: Grown with Purpose
Together, AgZone FIELD and Grown with Purpose work to support a continuous improvement cycle on your farm.
Grow your knowledge year after year
When you complete a Grown with Purpose assessment with a Grow Team member and leverage your AgZone FIELD data to evaluate and improve on-farm metrics, you can use this process to set long-term goals for your farm team and our agronomists to work towards.
Then, track progress toward those goals with AgZone FIELD. It allows you to create and manage crop plans, analyze soil sample results to inform nutrition recommendations, generate variable rate prescriptions, capture notes when scouting acres with Grow Team members, and build economic scenarios—equipping you with data to prepare for whatever the season brings.
At the end of each season, revisit your Grown with Purpose profile to assess progress and refine your goals. Updated goals inform your next round of crop planning in AgZone FIELD, continuing the cycle and driving improvement year after year.
Ready to get started? Talk to a Grow Team member about next year’s crop plan today.