EC IL | bleedred - 10/17/2025 21:36
Hate to break it to you yield monitor lovers but if you aren’t weighting everything and recalibrating for every different variation… moisture, hybrid change etc. all it is is a pretty picture.
It can show you some spatial trends with decent accuracy, and yes field totals can be decently accurate as well.
But comparing hybrids or plots etc you better verify its accurate for each scenario or it will read one number high and one low and you end up making decisions based off poor data.
This x1000
I put out a test plot for over 10 years, full length strips. The dealer wanted separate regions for each hybrid every year. The monitor yield vs the weighed yield would vary from hybrid to hybrid every time. We would do a calibration beforehand |
Yield monitors. Chicken or the egg?
