Key findings suggest that expansion of site-specific service offerings slowed in 1999. And, dealerships continue to focus more heavily on site-specific services that do not require large capital outlays such as field mapping. Offerings of services that are more capital intensive such as controller-driven variable rate application lag lower investment services, but modest growth does continue. Pricing programs for these services are highly variable. Provision of these services is higher in the Midwest relative to other states, and more prevalent in cooperatives and larger national organizations relative to independent operations.
Seed continues to expand as a product line for retail agronomic product retailers.
Precision Agricultural Services and Enhanced Seed Dealership Survey Results. Staff Paper No. Whipker, L.D. and J.T. Akridge. June 2000, pp. The design involves a strip trial with a uniform N rate along the strip and a randomized complete block design, with regression estimation of N response curves by landscape position.