| Red man1981 - 10/19/2025 17:36 It’s not that hard for me to tell if I’m in a really good area or really poor area. This year especially, it was easy. Lower parts of fields, crops have been extremely good. Then you get into higher knobs yields fall off. That’s not a fertility problem or hybrid issue in my opinion. I’m just not totally convinced yield monitoring/mapping,etc. actually provides a real ROI. More of just a convenience than anything.
By itself a yield monitor provides no value, if you use the information for managing a field with variable rate seeding or fertilizing it can help provide a very real ROI. If you're never going to do anything other than straight rate seeding, straight rate fertilizing and never going to address any drainage or PH problems, there is no point in making a yield map other than having a colorful picture to hang on your refrigerator.
A planter monitor by itself doesn't provide any value either, you have to use the information that it tells you to get a ROI.
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Yield monitors. Chicken or the egg?
