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Download PDF In a world where it’s more important to focus on tailoring applications to in-field variance than getting it right on average, digital precision becomes an essential. CPM reviews Yara’s Farmer toolbox. It’s easy to make a complex tool but more complex to make it easy to use. By Tom Allen-Stevens In an average year, the normal way to decide how much fertiliser to apply would be to look at your five-year average yields and cross reference these with tables in the Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) that gives you a long-term average rate to apply across your fields. “But when was the last time you had an average year?” asks Yara’s Miles Harriman. “RB209 is a great guide to the long-term average, but when it comes to applying fertiliser, it’s more helpful to focus on how much your crop is differing from the average. That’s where digital tools come in.” Yara has relaunched its digital tools for spring 2021. The key components have come together in one platform – Atfarm, accessed by simply typing “at.farm” into your web browser. There are three core elements of Atfarm that have come from Yara’s Farmer’s toolbox – the company’s collection of digital…
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