Tim Davis with Main Street Data explains their national and local yield forecasting built on 7 years of yield data over 7 million acres.

Users of AFS Connect will have the ability to share their agronomic data from their management portal directly to and from these third-party service providers.

The two new tools, Planner and Marketing, allow customers to create an adjustable plan that connects to a marketing strategy and allows them to manage their changing cost of production, profit opportunities and value at risk throughout the season.

Purdue University Extension explains why it's important to "clean" the yield data after harvest and some options for post-harvest processing.

Not all fields are alike. Many different variables affect how your crop performs in a single field, so blanket-treatment of an entire field for one limiting factor might not be the best way to manage resources or boost productivity.

The Stoller family farms 4,700 acres near Kentland, Ind., and have almost always had a John Deere fleet of equipment. But as they transition to strip-till in both corn and soybean rotations, they added a Case IH RowTrac 470 tractor into the equipment lineup in 2015 to help them reduce soil compaction.

Cyndi Pitzner, who farms with her father, Ron, near Jefferson, Wis., embraces analyses of farm data collected by their Precision Farming SeedSense 20/20 field monitor through and FieldView iPad platform.

Growers can now access FarmLink’s advanced data analytics platform to validate their 2015 decisions as they plan 2016 investments.