Variable Rate Technology
Pursuit of Optimal Yield
Soil sampling is the fastest and easiest way to discover what is causing variability across a field. Once soil fertility imbalances have been determined it is much easier to improve crop input management strategies. Legacy Rx does a variety of different types of site specific soil sampling in order to enhance your crop production. The benefits of Variable Rate Fertilizer include increased productivity, improved nutrient efficiencies, and in the end increased grower revenue. Once you have built your field’s base data layer foundation through soil test and yield data collection Legacy Rx system will identify the appropriate opportunity for adding a sound variable rate nutrient program for each individual field. Legacy Rx does not offer a quick fix; instead, it focuses on improving yield productivity continuously over time through a precise systems approach.
Legacy Rx’s “Pursuit of Optimal Yield” can help you find your signature formula to high-yields. The program will help you identify and reduce the effects of the most limiting factors in your growing environment. In pursuing maximum yields, we put the law of minimum to the test. Through the support of Legacy Farmers Crop Specialist team you can create an optimum growing environment that permits plant genetics to perform at their full potential and give you the path to maximum yields.
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Build a history on your farm and identify the yield potential of every acre in the field with Legacy Rx Yield Mapping solution. Legacy Farmers Rx Precision Specialist will be able to take the yield data maps and overlay with soil test maps for crop removal. This gives the grower information to make accurate decisions on nutrient input applications, variable rate nitrogen, and variable rate seeding. The yield mapping tool offers you the ability to identify your high and low production areas.
Legacy Farmers Cooperative’s mission is to exceed customer’s expectations by delivering the best value to your business, which is why we introduce Legacy Rx “Your Prescription to Higher Yields”. Legacy Rx is designed to bring you expertise and data to manage and make informed decisions on crop nutrients valuable to crop production, selecting the right hybrid and population, environmentally sound, increase efficiency, and maximize profitability on every acre. Site specific soil sampling is Legacy Rx’s main tool; however, it is loaded with additional components to assist you in dealing with the price of inputs. Legacy Rx is built for any size farming operation! Please contact your Crop Specialist TODAY to enroll in Legacy Rx, our premier agronomy suite.
Variable Rate Seeding
Intensive Crop Management
Farmers with the technology needed and enrolled in the Legacy Rx Yield Mapping solution can variable rate seed to adjust seeding population based off of field yield history, soil test results, hybrid selection, or a combination of multiple factors. Legacy Rx Precision Specialist will be able to write up a script for you to accurately plan the correct amount of seed in high and low production acres. Legacy Rx Yield Mapping and Variable Rate Seeding can offer you savings and most importantly Profitability!
Intensive Crop Management (ICM) is providing the farmer with timely grade cards regarding your crop or field from your Crop Specialist throughout the season. The farmer’s acres are thoroughly scouted as needed from seedling stage through pre-harvest. Crop Specialist will monitor plant population, identify weed escapes or pressure, disease, insects, and nutrient deficiencies (Tissue Sampling). The farmer can expect timely written or electronic scouting reports and itemizing any yield limiting factors out in the field. Your knowledgeable Crop Specialist will provide you with unbiased and objective side-dress nitrogen recommendations, post herbicide, foliar and fungicide treatment recommendations. The goal of Legacy Rx’s ICM Program is to take out the time and the risk of managing the acres yourself and providing the grower with accurate and timely agronomic recommendations to prevent yield robbing concerns from occurring. The ICM Program fits any size farming operation and a cost effective insurance to maximize your overall profitability.
Yield Mapping
Precision Planting Legacy Farmers is a Premier Precision Planting Dealer with four technicians to service all your precision planter necessities. Our team of technicians implements innovative products, solve important agronomic issues facing farmers, and provide insight and assistance so each grower can reach their best yield.
Pursuit of Optimum Yield: 5 Key Agronomic Management Pieces Nitrogen Management (Pre-& Post N) · Corn Hybrid · Seed Population · Plant Health Foliar/Fungicide Applications (V5 & VT) · Micronutrients
N-Watch (Nitrogen Management) A piece of the Legacy Rx components is the NWatch system, which is designed to help farmers and Crop Specialists build a knowledge based on the amount of nitrogen in the soil at certain times of the growing season. N-Watch System is designed to take a series of soil probes taken in the same part of the field periodically through the season. Legacy Rx Specialist will designate a place in the field that is both represented and easy to access. Samples are taken by using a 30-inch wooden template that fits between two corn rows, a farmer or Legacy Rx Specialist will take 11 core soil samples at 12-inch and at 24-inch depths. The season long tracking will help the farmer understand nitrogen cycle, how nitrogen moves in the soil and is taken up by plants.