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Finding the right seed is foundational for any farming operation. You can’t change your soil type or how much rainfall you’ll get, but you can choose the best seeds for your unique environmental conditions — and that has the potential to make a big impact on your bottom line.
Farmers deserve an independent and unbiased source of data to help inform their seed purchases. Before buying seed, you can search and verify product claims for free with FBN Seed Finder, the Consumer Reports® for real-world seed performance on over thousands of seed varieties.
A key decision-making tool within your free FBN member account, FBN Seed Finder lets farmers who upload a seed invoice to gain access to our robust price and performance database, driven by millions of acres of farmer-contributed data for a wide range of hybrids and varieties.
Each seed variety in FBN Seed Finder has its own Seed Intelligence profile. This gives you the power to:
See how the variety actually performed in the real world across millions of acres
Breakout the variety's actual yields by 10 practice & environmental factors
See the acreage behind each result just by hovering over the bars
Sort yields by rotation, soil texture, year, and state
Find the most cost-efficient nitrogen rates for each seed variety
You also have the option to filter the number of acres down (by checking the boxes) to only include data from a specific year, in your state, on your soils, with a specific crop rotation practice, or using your drainage/irrigation setup. This gives you even more precise insights on ways that you can optimize your seed decisions.
Each tab on the product profile packs powerful data on:
Nitrogen
Seeding Rate
Soil Temperature
Temperature at Planting
Planting Date
Soil Productivity Index (SPI)
Total Precipitation During the Growing Season
Harvest Moisture
Planting Speed
Click here to go to the FBN Seed Finder tool. Once on the page, you'll see a pop-up at the top indicating your access to the seed data details. If you need to contribute more information in order to access, go to My Data to contribute information or email your data to: data@farmersbusinessnetwork.com.
FBN Yield Potential is another key component of the Seed Finder experience.
Located under Analyze --> My Operation tab in your member account, this tool generates field-specific recommendations for hybrids and varieties based on available data for:
certain soil types
weather conditions
planting practices
other agronomic factors, such as irrigation and drainage
You can adjust filters according to your plans and practices and explore other recommended hybrids and varieties that match your budget, brand preference and more.
In our hypothetical example, you can see that Channel® 210-79 is recommended — with an estimated yield potential of 230.7 bushels per acre, on average — for this particular field based on the information provided and farm-tested insights.
You can also explore estimated yield potential for other top seeds in our database under the same set of field conditions and practices as well as compare them with favorites you might have planted in the past.
Yield is only part of the net seed revenue equation, though. You have to find the right seed at the right price if you are going to maximize your profit potential.
We’ve built price transparency into FBN Seed Finder to help you see what others are paying for the same hybrid or variety. After you upload a seed invoice of your own, you can leverage our database of more than 43,500 seed invoices on more than 1,400 seed varieties to gain a clearer picture of real-world seed prices.
You can see the lowest, highest and average prices paid for individual seed varieties by members who contributed invoices.
With this price transparency in hand, you can either negotiate a better deal, keep shopping or look for a different seed variety altogether.
Ready to take advantage of FBN Seed Finder? Sign up for a free FBN member account and upload your first seed tag and invoice to start making more confident seed selection decisions for your operation today.
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