I met Barry Libenson, CIO of Land O’Lakes at the Oracle Analyst event last month. What was interesting was to learn how much the company does beyond produce tons of butter. It has its Purina livestock feed business and its Winfield Solutions which is into seed and crop protection. He told me about Winfield’s 150 “Answer Plots” – which help farmers with sophisticated coaching. Example: "Answer Plot® locations in Indiana dramatically demonstrated the importance of early season weed control in corn. In the study, burndown and preemerge applications were skipped and weeds were allowed to grow to a height of 8 to 10 inches before spraying with a postemergence application of AgriSolutions® Cornerstone® herbicide. "
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