1000 Variables

Did The 1000 Variables Effect Your Seed?

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Each fall there are a record number of growers who are disappointed in the results he or she gets from the crop during harvest.

Some producers will put 100% blame on the weather, others will blame themselves.  But most, of them however, will blame your varieties for the lack of performance.

So as you ride your customers’ harvesters each fall be sure to take them through a quick recap of everything the crop went through in the previous growing season.

Start with how easy or difficult the planting season was.  After all, many parts of the country had the Spring From Hell in 2011 and barely got their crop planted.

Many times your growers will have forgotten all of that as they stare at the yield monitor with disappointment or anger and think about all of the revenue they may have missed out on by not having the number of bushels they needed or wanted.

It’s your job to change the attitude and the mindset of that grower.

During your combine ride make sure you walk him/her through the Top 5 Factors To Producing A Top Crop and ask them how many they think were violated this past growing season?

None?

1 or 2?

All of them?

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Who’s Responsible for the Performance of Your Varieties?

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Harvest season is just wrapping up in some parts of the country and just getting started in others.   Harvest time means it is time for sellers to get their “report cards” from their growers.

These report cards will determine whether or not you continue selling to your customers and they will surely include the 1000 reasons and excuses for not re-ordering your products next season.

Unfortunately for you, none of these reasons will have anything to do with the real ability of your varieties to perform.

This year a farmer’s yields, standability, dry down and grain quality will all be distorted due to uncooperative weather and bad management decisions made by growers during these difficult times.

This year acres and acres of crop got off to a bad start.  Forced replanting created more bad starts in those same fields, which were often further damaged by hail, floods, droughts, wind-induced lodging, attacks by insects and diseases.  Couple that  with growers who worked to minimize crop input costs (some just simply gave up), and you have maximum variability in product performance.

There probably isn’t a single variety in the country that will perform to its full potential this year.

In the latest webisode of SeedSeller Training TV Rod talks about who ultimately bears responsibility for the performance of your varieties on your customer’s farm and how the “1000 variables” play a crucial role in that process.

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