Free ROI tool helps farmers make planting decisions

SAN FRANCISCO — Granular launched a free, web-based crop rotation ROI calculator to help farmers make planting decisions.

After analyzing more than 10 million acres and corn soybean rotations for the past decade, Granular’s data science team created a proprietary corn-versus-soybeans calculator to help farmers decide what to plant.

“We’re still debating rotating to soybeans or doing corn on corn on a few of our fields,” said Andy Nordhues, a farmer in Randolph, Nebraska.

“We had strong corn-on-corn yields in 2020, but we’re certainly watching the bean markets. Having a tool to help me pull the numbers together and analyze trusted data trends to assist in making my decisions is definitely helpful.”

The calculator accounts for the expected yield penalty for repeat crops based on state, as well as the anticipated cost increase for the suggested mitigation strategies.

Budget costs are calculated using numbers provided by local state universities, and the crop price is the prior day’s market closing cost, updated daily via Barchart.

Farmers can access the calculator at http://granular.ag/cornvsbeansprofitabilitycalculator.