2020 Iowa SureForce Trial

Central Iowa SureForce Trial

Year: 2020
Trial Location: Central Iowa
Product Tested: SureForce
Crop Type: Corn
Cropping Practice: Minimum Tillage (fall vertical till, spring cultivate), 3rd year corn on corn

Trial Purpose/What We Were Testing For: SureForce vs simulated OEM downforce 3 treatment. Manual (200 lbs) vs Medium vs Heavy

Outlying Factors:

Drought

Outcome:

No yield advantage, possibly due to dry conditions and RID type gauge wheels. This trend exists across all 2020 trials on Case planters with RID gauge wheels.

Bushel Advantage: +1 bu advantage vs simulated OEM down force.

Additional Trial Information and Maps:

This is a summarization of data collected in one year and represents only what happened across the tested field in 2020. It is not a rigorous evaluation of factors that may or may not influence yield. Results may not predict future performance and may not be complete.