b'PARTNER CONTENTUnlocking Soybean Potential with Variety Profile IndexEnvironmental Understanding from Advanced Agrilytics and Ag Ingenuity Partners.Dr. Jon Bokmeyer, Director at Ag Ingenuity PartnersP otential can be considered something that is possible but not yet actual. The team at Advanced Agrilytics focuses on finding ways to unlock the potential of each acre. Their approach starts with understanding sub-field environments and how they impact yield, looking at the causes in the why and how. With their research division, Ag Ingenuity Partners, they bring this understanding and research to the farm at a field level. Work-ing with growers and partners from seed, inputs, and equipment, they can bring field level data to the trials, and give farmers ac-tionable steps to improve soil, yields and better understand their sub-acre potential. We use proprietary methodology focusing on environmental attributes and their influence on foundational agronomic prin-ciples to unlock the potential of the acre, says Dr. Jon Bokmeyer, Director at Ag Ingenuity Partners (AIP). When we look at the sub-acre environment, we can see the yield as the outcome based on the plants response to each unique environment.Variable Rate Technology (VRT) is a way to apply the 4Rs (right rate, right place, right product, right time) to effectively manage crop inputs. Advanced Agrilytics and AIP take it a step further (or rather back) to look at the sub-acre environment in a proprietary way that gives growers ways to assign inputs, index yield data and use their VRT tools more effectively.Its familiar ground to cover when talking about seed and yield potential, and the soil make-up of a field. However, getting into the sub-acre environment of those fields and uncovering the yield influencing factors is where differentiation begins.Advanced Agrilytics and AIP understand how yield influenc-ers, or mechanisms, work together from the movement of water and nutrients to soil attributes and topography and of course product in the growers rotation. Using their sub-acre agronomic insight, they can provide advanced VRT recommendations to growers that account for water movement and soil nutrient needs.Bokmeyer. Weve found that the placement of pods on a soybean This in-depth understanding has led AIP to its newly patentedplant is an informative characteristic that describes how a soy-methodology for soybean characterization called Variety Profilebean variety builds yield that we can leverage in making variety Index (VPI). Historically, soybean management considerationsspecific placement recommendations that are repeatable.and industry research have been focused on attributes likeUsing VPI provides the foundation for growers to match variet-planting date, the use of seed treatment, and or fungicide andies to the growing conditions in their fields to improve yields and insecticide applications to influence yield. While all these factorsproactively manage input decisions throughout the growing sea-may influence yield in specific environments, AIP expanded theirson. This will allow growers, input, and seed providers to manage thought process from those known contributors and looked morerisk and maximize yields. fundamentally at key, repeatable yield influencers specific to aWant to learn how the Advanced Agrilytics and AIP teams variety pod placement and branching. can help? Reach out to them at https://advancedagrilytics.com/Our methodology is built upon sampling soybeans at criticalcontact-us/ times in the growing season across specific environments, saysAdapted from interviewJANUARY 2023 SEEDWORLD.COM /49'