{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fknow-your-numbers-down-to-field-L32_7l6Y","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Know Your Numbers: Down To The Field","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/890216dd-82cd-415f-bedc-95439e8694ae/cropped_1790345277460.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Dean Klippenstine and Mike Palmier of MNP return for the third session in the Know Your Numbers benchmarking series, moving the lens from the whole farm down to the individual field. Drawing on an agronomy benchmark covering 318,000 acres across 57 farms in west central Saskatchewan, they walk through what a real profit map looks like, why the gap in crop input spending between top producers and average ones is small compared to the gap in decision quality, and what happens to gross margin the later a field gets seeded. The tension is that most operators can tell you their farm's bottom line and cannot tell you which fields are actually earning it, and the two guests are blunt about how few producers have ever done the math field by field. Producers walk away with a working definition of a profit map, a specific example of what seeding date costs a crop in a bad year, and a harder question about whether every acre they farm deserves to still be in the operation."}