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Billy Rose

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630 total appearances

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Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

Yeah. You're trying to protect the margins of the producers. And in today's environment with these... bumper crop coming out, commodity prices going to all-time low for a cycle that we don't even like to talk about, right? I mean, I would rather just bury my head in the sand, but we can't. We have to deal with this, and we have to look at it and go, all right, I've got a good operation.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

I've got a 220 APH on my corn. You know, I'm doing everything right, but I'm not making money because of those commodity prices. So how are we going to do better? And we've always seen this issue of this problem called the yield gap. And at the right time, I'd like to talk to you about that yield gap.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

I've got a 220 APH on my corn. You know, I'm doing everything right, but I'm not making money because of those commodity prices. So how are we going to do better? And we've always seen this issue of this problem called the yield gap. And at the right time, I'd like to talk to you about that yield gap.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

I've got a 220 APH on my corn. You know, I'm doing everything right, but I'm not making money because of those commodity prices. So how are we going to do better? And we've always seen this issue of this problem called the yield gap. And at the right time, I'd like to talk to you about that yield gap.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

Yeah, so we named it this gap where crop insurance doesn't cover, but it's the last 15% from 85 to 100 of your historical yield. Okay. Okay, so it's this gap. And you can't get any coverage, yet that gap, is the difference between a profit and loss. Yes. It's the difference between going on a vacation or not. Yep.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

Yeah, so we named it this gap where crop insurance doesn't cover, but it's the last 15% from 85 to 100 of your historical yield. Okay. Okay, so it's this gap. And you can't get any coverage, yet that gap, is the difference between a profit and loss. Yes. It's the difference between going on a vacation or not. Yep.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

Yeah, so we named it this gap where crop insurance doesn't cover, but it's the last 15% from 85 to 100 of your historical yield. Okay. Okay, so it's this gap. And you can't get any coverage, yet that gap, is the difference between a profit and loss. Yes. It's the difference between going on a vacation or not. Yep.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

It's the difference between, can my wife, you know, stop working in town and come work on the farm? Yeah. And so we said, this problem, this universal problem for 160 million acres of corn and soy, how could we solve it? And for years, we couldn't. And one day, we started doing all the seed trials across the Midwest, testing every variety and hybrid on these seeds.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

It's the difference between, can my wife, you know, stop working in town and come work on the farm? Yeah. And so we said, this problem, this universal problem for 160 million acres of corn and soy, how could we solve it? And for years, we couldn't. And one day, we started doing all the seed trials across the Midwest, testing every variety and hybrid on these seeds.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

It's the difference between, can my wife, you know, stop working in town and come work on the farm? Yeah. And so we said, this problem, this universal problem for 160 million acres of corn and soy, how could we solve it? And for years, we couldn't. And one day, we started doing all the seed trials across the Midwest, testing every variety and hybrid on these seeds.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

Sea trial plots, where we had specialized four-row planters and combines, and we got the scientific data. And I have a question for you guys. If I planted 100 different varieties in the same field, okay, side by side, same plant date, same environment, same harvest date, what do you think on a normal 200 APH corn field we might see in yield difference just in the top 30?

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

Sea trial plots, where we had specialized four-row planters and combines, and we got the scientific data. And I have a question for you guys. If I planted 100 different varieties in the same field, okay, side by side, same plant date, same environment, same harvest date, what do you think on a normal 200 APH corn field we might see in yield difference just in the top 30?

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

Sea trial plots, where we had specialized four-row planters and combines, and we got the scientific data. And I have a question for you guys. If I planted 100 different varieties in the same field, okay, side by side, same plant date, same environment, same harvest date, what do you think on a normal 200 APH corn field we might see in yield difference just in the top 30?

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

I'm going to let Dave answer because I know the answer.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

I'm going to let Dave answer because I know the answer.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

I'm going to let Dave answer because I know the answer.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

So 30 bushel is 15% is what you're saying. Yeah, 15%. We were finding up to 20%. That's just in the top 30. There you go. So imagine if we could bring this information back to our farming friends where they just drop a pin on their field and this, you know,

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

So 30 bushel is 15% is what you're saying. Yeah, 15%. We were finding up to 20%. That's just in the top 30. There you go. So imagine if we could bring this information back to our farming friends where they just drop a pin on their field and this, you know,

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

So 30 bushel is 15% is what you're saying. Yeah, 15%. We were finding up to 20%. That's just in the top 30. There you go. So imagine if we could bring this information back to our farming friends where they just drop a pin on their field and this, you know,

Farm4Profit Podcast
Closing the Yield Gap: Protecting Farmers’ Profits w/ Acre Shield

AI algorithm goes out, compares all the seed trials, brings them all in, grabs the same soil, same maturity zone, same practice, same rotation, whatever you're doing, and says, here is a list. I call it the David Letterman's top 10. Okay. Here's a list that if you buy off of this top 30, you're going to improve your yields by that 15% to 20% and solve your yield gap. Okay. Okay.