Understanding the Preceon™ Smart Corn System

You know within the Smart Corn System, it drastically reduces the risk for growers from wind events. So, whether you’re in one of those wind tunnels or not across the Corn Belt, wind events happen; they occur. And just having that in the back of your mind that, “Hey, we have this product out there that’s gonna drastically reduce our risk if we do encounter a windstorm.” I think it is one more thing that helps growers sleep better at night, especially through those months where we commonly see wind events.

You know, traditionally, anytime we wanna make late-season applications in corn — whether it’s a fungicide, insecticide, late-season nitrogen application — it was kind of kept for those with a Hagie. And now, with short corn, we’re able to use any kind of sprayers that can get through shorter stature corn.

You know, when you start thinking about what we can do as far as in-season fertilizer applications and any kind of pesticide or fungicide that we may potentially want to use, it really opens a window with short corn. We’re giving any dealers or growers season-long access to whatever they want to do.

It’s all about protecting yield from the moment we plant that seed to the moment we harvest. And anything and everything that we do is about managing and protecting yield. And so, having all of this additional access, the potential for increasing planting populations, it gives us… it’s not a guaranteed increase in yield, but it definitely gives us the opportunity to capture and protect the yield that is out there from the moment we plant that seed to the moment we harvest.

Myself especially, when we’re talking to growers about the ability to increase planting populations without decreasing stalk quality or having to worry about lodging later in the season, and the potential for increased yields because of the higher population — that gets growers excited.

You know, the whole Climate FieldView™ aspect and the digital platform allows us to not only easily capture that data but it gives us the opportunity to analyze that data, right? We can start pulling and looking at things that we never have in the past and build on that, right?

The ability for us and our growers to do the research and compare and analyze the results on their own farm is huge. You know, that gives everyone the access to become a scientist and a researcher, right? What worked best on our farm? How did this management practice compare to this one? And so, it just really opens the door for anybody and everybody to analyze what they’re doing and get better the next year.