Case IH - Your Agronomic Resource

Plant Stand Management

Highest profitability comes from producing more yield and maximum yields come from high quality plant stands. Case IH is your agronomic resource for evaluating and quantifying your plant stand quality. Plant stand quality is determined early in the growing season and our NEW Plant Stand Management Evaluator™ software program can help you measure the quality of a plant stand in terms that everyone understands, dollars per acre. Plant stand management requires in-field evaluation of the seed bed preparation as well as the planter performance.

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Your seed bed preparation and planting equipment can make or break you when it comes to creating a seed environment that lends itself to uniform emergence, good seed spacing and ultimately to a high quality plant stand. Plant population is important but even more important is that each plant is in a position to contribute to yield at it's highest potential. Poorly spaced plants and plants that don't emerge uniformly don't contribute at their highest potential, in fact they reduce the yield potential of their neighboring plants.

Plant Stand Management Evaluator™

Evaluator WorksheetClick on the link above to preview the innovative NEW Plant Stand Management Evaluator™. This software tool provides a guideline for growers who want to evaluate their seed bed preparation and planter performance. The tool helps determine the lost profit potential associated with plant stand issues which could be hurting your yield. Issues that cause lost yield take dollars out of your pocket and many of these issues are related to seed bed preparation equipment and planter performance. Understanding the yield loss issues will help you make better decisions when it comes to choosing equipment or making operational changes.

The Early Riser Field Challenge!The Early Riser Field Challenge!
Case IH dealerships will bring this agronomic message to the field in the spring of 2007. During a sponsored event called an Early Riser Field Challenge, data will be gathered from a variety of fields that have been prepared and planted by a variety of competitive equipment. The Plant Stand Management Evaluator™ will draw comparisons between plant stand quality measurements in these various fields. Participants in the event will not only be a part of a valuable learning experience but will receive a free Early Riser Wallet. The mission is to not only show you how to make more profit, but also give you a place to put it!
The Case IH Online Learning CenterVisit the Learning Center!
Visit the online Case IH learning center and take courses that focus on Plant Stand Management and Water Management. These online courses will give you a better understanding about how much control you really do have over the quality of your plant stand and the water available to your crop during the growing season.
How Do Planters Compare?
The best way to show a competitive advantage is compare your product side-by-side with competitive products. That is why Case IH recently built the amazing De-Terminator™ planter.
“This planter is one of a kind”, explains Mike Pruett, Case IH planter product marketing specialist and agronomist. “The DeTerminator™ is built with row units and meters from Case IH, John Deere, Kinze, and AGCO White, which makes comparing these competitive planter designs much easier than it would normally be.”
The planter can be transported from field to field easily and several plots can be planted during the planting season. “The Case IH Early Riser row unit, the ASM meter, and patented 2-stage closing system delivers better agronomic results and frankly, I like our odds in a head-to-head comparison, says Pruett.
Plot Locations and Cooperators
  • Baltic, SD - Hefty Seed Company (Ag Phd)
  • Fort Branch, IN - Beck's Superior Hybrids
  • Atlanta, IN - Beck's Superior Hybrids
  • West Lafayette, IN - Purdue University
  • Decatur, IL - AgReliant Genetics
  • Geneseo, IL - Sieben Hybrids
  • Reynolds, IN - Heritage Seeds
  • Pontiac, IL - FreeStar Bank
  • Danvers, IL - Pioneer Hybrids
  • Cambridge, IA - Corn States (Monsanto)
  • Nicollet, MN - Pioneer Hybrids
  • Atlantic, IA - Dekalb

The De-Terminator(tm)

The DeTerminator™ Planter