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A new tool for making seed selections

Nov 25, 2020
Nov 25, 2020 Updated Dec 1, 2020

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“Big data” and what we can learn from our own farms is all the buzz these days, and for good reason. Ever since the advent of the on-the-go yield monitor in 1992 we’ve slowly progressed our understanding of the potential of what we can learn from it, as well as from other technologies that have since come along.

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