Ken Ferrie, says “It seems like every year there’s a time slot where you can look back and say we shouldn’t have planted corn on those days—I’m having trouble in central Illinois finding a window where we should have planted corn this year.”

Participating retailers included: Asmus Farm Supply, Harvest Land Co-op, Helena Agri-Enterprises, Nutrien Ag Solutions, and Simplot Grower Solutions.

Each crop is well ahead of 2019’s progress, by a landslide. Overall corn is 93% planted and soybeans are 75% planted, compared to 64% and 36%, respectively in 2019.

PumpTrakr, a remarkably simple and low-cost irrigation app, manages pump locations, activity, fuel, maintenance and more.

Here are five ways farmers can start or improve data-capturing efforts and take some of the guesswork out of decisions.