This week in AGvisorPRO
Week of November 18th, 2022
Welcome to this week in AGvisorPRO. Our weekly roundup of featured questions, experts, content, updates, announcements, and more.
Services for your farm:
Whole Farm Business Simulation and Major Decision Analysis
Bruce Viney is an expert when it comes to farm finances and succession planning. He is offering a service for you to be able to keep farm accounts more organized, while also allowing you to look in advance at your farms future wealth. This will allow you to build confidence in your business goals.
Bruce has created a farm business simulation tool in Microsoft excel. Using his software you are able to see three years of simulated financial states based on the historical financial information of the operation, as well as future pricing and yield data.
Bruce can help bring assurance to your operation. To learn more about his service, you can reach out to Bruce in the AGvisorPRO app today.
Are you an expert wanting to list your service? Contact us.
Top Question of the Week:
This week’s top question is from a producer wondering about seeding cover crops with low soil moisture, and little precipitation in the upcoming forecast. Here is what the farmer asked:
“Can it be too dry for planting cover crops? I’ve only used cover crops for the past 3 years. (Rye). I’m located in Eastern Nebraska. We are extremely dry with not much rain in the nearby forecast. Is it worth the cost of seed to try to seed some rye? I grow corn and soybean rotation. Would rye germinate even if there’s no moisture in the top inch or if we do get enough rain to get it to germinate will it just die a week later?”
Check out Keri Buttke’s response to this deep question and other experts’ responses in the AGvisorPRO app today.
Featured Expert Profile:
Colby Robertson
Colby Robertson is a professional when it comes to potato production. He has worked with two multinational potato processors, and has been actively involved with many different university research teams on potato handling, storage, and disease resistance.
His passion for agriculture came from his affinity for people, plants, and food. Over the years he’s been connecting the dots between growing potatoes and a consumer product. The most valuable thing Colby has taken away from the many years he has been involved in agriculture and food production is that there is always more to learn, and new things to discover. When Colby isn’t reading about the world’s next crop of potatoes, he enjoys listening to music, fiction novels, and spending time with his family.
Agriculture is not just Colby’s passion, it’s his culture.
Featured Platform Partner:
Ukko Agro is a leading-edge ag-tech enterprise dedicated to bringing adaptive, integrated and actionable insights from digitized acres to Canadian ag retailers and their producers. Their proprietary Field Adaptive and Integrated Modelling (F.A.I.M) platform — ForeSite™ — delivers field-specific staging information and prescriptions to farmers up to 14 days in advance. This data can be used by producers to see when and where they need to apply different crop inputs (pesticides, fungicides, nutrients, and irrigation). With the high cost of inputs right now, Ukko Agro’s services are worth every penny.
Ukko Agro’s state-of-the-art localized weather and forecasting technology is to help farmers grow smarter, and not harder. All data collected by their weather system is proven to be over 85% accurate, so why take chances on your operation if you don’t have too. Their product is simple, reliable, and economical.
Ukko Agro uses sophisticated digital data-gathering technology, to help farmers mitigate risk, as well as assist them to achieve the highest possible returns from their input investments. It is truly the evolution of the digital ag-decision revolution.
If you want to learn more about Ukko Agro, and how they can help you on your operation, reach out to Ketan in the app today.
Friends of AGvisorPRO
The AGvisorPRO team had the opportunity to attend the StrongHer Together Women in Ag conference in Fort Benton, Montana this week. This was a great event and we even got to meet friend of AGvisorPRO, Katelyn Duban, in person! Thank you Stacy Bronec and Chandee Bombgardner for the invitation and we were honoured to sponsor this event.
What's coming next in AGvisorPRO?
This week we have something really special for you all… all you need to do is update the AGvisorPRO app and tap the search icon on the dashboard!
The new search allows you to sort through previous questions, answers, experts, and companies by using KEYWORDS. Gone are the days of the clunky search, it is now easier than ever to search for exactly what you’re looking for.
Since we released Ask the Network last November, we have had over 800 questions come into the app and over (1400) question responses. Search lets you explore that entire database!
Give it a try by typing “Canola” into the search bar and see what you can find!
Meet the Team:
Brian West
Meet Brian West, one of AGvisorPRO’s Software Developers. When not writing code that powers the app we all know and love, you can find him either at the gym or biking out in the woods.
Brian works with the product team to implement and deliver new solutions every week while maintaining a high-quality product. It is said that no one alive has ever witnessed a subpar live demo from Brian.
He generally lives by one rule:
“Don’t put in half of the effort unless you’re okay with half of the results”
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