New Company AcreShield™ Launches Yield Optimizer™

“Yield Optimizer aggregates comprehensive data from respected, independent seed trial plots along with our proprietary seed trial data,” Billy Rose, AcreShield CEO, says. “The outputs we provide represent specific field-level performance for more than 700 seed varieties. Yield Optimizer uses this information to create an extensive list that ranks the top-performing brands and hybrids by yield, specific to a farmer’s location. These unique insights provide farmers with unbiased, verified hybrid yield data to help them make the best seed selection for their operation. We back this with a yield performance guarantee that allows the farmer flexibility to choose any seed they want.

Maximizing yield through minimizing components of yield risk is a key factor in determining profitable farm operations. Profitability generally depends on getting crop yields close to 100 percent or more compared to historical yields. While crop insurance covers up to 85 percent of a farmer’s historical yield, profits are at risk when yields fall between 85 percent and 100 percent. This 15 percent shortfall is the Yield Gap. (See Figure 1.) Before the innovative Yield Optimizer, there was no cost-effective seed selection program with financial protection to safeguard farmers whose yields fell into the Yield Gap.

“You can buy Yield Optimizer on our website today or from our exclusive representatives and distributors,” Rose says. “We’re adding more of them daily for customers who want a personal touch and recommendation.”