AccuField® Provides New Features in Suite of Agricultural Services

BY: DARRIN HOLDER

AccuField ® is just what its name implies – a collection of precision agriculture services and information that offers farmers unsurpassed accuracy in their fields, whether it is through precision soil sampling, variable rate applications, yield data, site-specific hybrid selection or data management services.

Now in its eighth year of service to farmers, GreenPoint Ag’s AccuField ® is unveiling a new version that honors its history of unrivaled customer support while offering new technology and features to help maintain profitable production.

This new look highlights the initiatives “Innovate. Grow. Sustain.™” and is built on the five pillars of AccuField ® :

• Fertility and Planting Solutions

• In-Season Decision Support

• Machine Calibration

• Data Management

• Profitability and ROI

“With service to 10 states and hundreds of locations between GreenPoint Ag’s retail locations and participating member cooperatives, we continue to offer the same service farmers have come to know and trust,” said Trey Colley, Regional Manager, Ag Technologies for GreenPoint Ag.

“There are a myriad of options out there when it comes to technology that drive value to a grower’s operation, but we have some clear return on investment tools that we know are sound practices at the farm level,” Colley said.

“We back that up by having people at our cooperatives and GreenPoint Ag retail locations who are in tune with what’s going on in their local fields. We also have regional support specialists who can implement those tools and visit with growers to make custom fertility plans and other recommendations that help them not only with what they want to achieve from a crop and yield perspective but also is economical.”

With AccuField ® , farmers will have access to the newest and most innovative tools available, Colley said, helping them grow their operations and sustain their success moving forward. In addition to the tools already being used in AccuField ® ’s portfolio, there are a few new tools ready for use in 2021.

The ROI or return on investment tool is a new feature that goes one step further than traditional yield maps. “With this tool, we’re able to apply a grower’s production budget to their yield map and come up with a profitability map for their fields,” he said.

A new geospatial seed placement tool is a proprietary technology that allows for the input of variety trial results from county, state and university tests as well as from GreenPoint’s on-farm trials conducted by its agronomy team.

“We’re able to aggregate these results and get a recommendation for which variety works best for a particular field and soil type,” Colley said.

The Sustain initiative maintains a focus on sustainability from a farm perspective, with programs currently in place for corn, soybeans, wheat, and cotton, and there are plans to add peanuts and rice in the near future.

“We’re driving more value to our customers who are already employing sustainable practices, and we’re recognizing them for that,” Colley said.

The cotton initiative is made possible through a partnership with the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol which brings quantifiable and verifiable goals and measurement to sustainable cotton production and drives continuous improvement in six key sustainability metrics – land use, soil carbon, water management, soil loss, greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency.

“This tool allows us to help facilitate growers in enrolling in that program and other programs that either will pay back to the grower or serve as a method of documentation rewarding them for their sustainable practices,” Colley said.

For more information about AccuField ® and the services described above, go to www.accufield. com or contact your local farmers cooperative.

Headquartered in Decatur, Alabama, GreenPoint Ag is an American-owned, agricultural input supplier servicing 28 million acres in 99 communities across Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas. GreenPoint Ag combined operations with Agri-AFC and Tennessee Farmers Cooperative’s Wholesale Agronomy in early September of last year making it a top seven wholesale and retail agronomy company with more than $1 billion in sales.

Trey Colley Regional Manager, Ag Technologies for Greenpoint

“There are a myriad of options out there when it comes to technology that drive value to a grower’s operation, but we have some clear return on investment tools that we know are sound practices at the farm level.”– Trey Colley