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03/04/2013 @ 11:14am  Flash back to 1986. It's the first year
Gary Petersohn begins gathering yield data on his Tingley, Iowa,
fields. Flash forward to 2012. He's surrounded by the multitude
of facts and statistics the technology has been stockpiling.
With no clear idea on what steps to take to effectively
interpret the information, he has danced around the very data
that has the potential to help him save on inputs and increase
yields.  “I have a lot of maps and they're fun to look at, but I
never plugged the data into anything that really made any
sense,” he admits. “I'm old enough that I'm a little challenged
on some of the technology, and I need help.”  Petersohn isn't
alone.  Set the mood  So you don't get tripped up on the details
of the data, you need to have the right mind-set. “I think the
stumbling block is the technology passed farmers at a high rate
of speed,” says Mike Fugate, Precision Services Manager, Barker
Implement. “This funk