But Will It Work on MY Farm?
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
New agricultural inputs and products can have all of the data in the world, but the question always still remains: “How will I know this works for MY farm?” Nick Cizek says that’s why he founded FarmTest, a field trial design and execution service to measure the performance of fields right on your farm instead of relying on regional data.
Cizek… “I guess we're building on 30 years of precision ag advances. We have much better yield monitors. We have variable rate controllers. We have trial design software. We have RTK and differential GPS, and we have row-by-row control and wireless data transfer to and from the cloud. Like all those things make it where now suddenly we're on the cusp of where it's getting easier and easier for farmers and their trusted advisors to do the trials. And what's going to happen is there's been this sort of information asymmetry where it used to be that the farmers relied on the input companies on what would work. And now it seems like it's going to start shifting where the growers and their trusted advisors are going to have the data, at least for on my fields, on my farms, what works the best. And so that's going to really change the way the ag supply chain works. And the exact ramifications, I don't know exactly, but I can tell you, like, it should scramble things up. It'll be really interesting to see what, what comes out of that.”
Cizek says FarmTest is designed to help farmers and their trusted advisors improve farm profit and efficiencies with data specific to their own fields.
