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The North Central Soybean Research Program (NCSRP) and the Iowa Soybean Association are pleased to announce the upcoming release of Crop Check^TM, an Internet based, crop production and financial analysis program.  Crop Check will be released December 1, 2001 to all soybean and corn growers in the 12 NCSRP states.

What is Crop Check?

Crop Check is a new software package developed by the Iowa Soybean Association and the University of Minnesota’s Center for Farm Financial Management (CFFM) and funded with checkoff dollars from the NCSRP.  It combines the production analysis capabilities of ISA’s former Producer Profitability program and CFFM’s widely used FINPACK financial analysis program.

Crop Check offers producers the ability to determine their average, or field specific cost of production to determine the productivity of each farm in their operation.  It also enables them to compare yield of their most preferred hybrids to other producers who are also using the program.

Crop Check also offers:

• An easy way to compare production costs to other farmers across the Midwest.
• Analysis of the agronomic performance of soybean varieties and corn hybrids based on date of planting, row width, timing of fertilizer application and more!
• Determine how corn hybrids or soybean varieties perform across the Midwest.
• Quickly identified opportunities for greater profitability.
• Easy to use windows based software provided at no cost. 
• Complete confidentiality! 

Because Crop Check is a user-group database, some peer-oriented analysis may not be possible right away.  These delays are possible because the program must first accumulate enough grower data to tabulate and return accurate results. 

For more information about Crop Check contact: David Wright, Iowa Soybean Association, 1 800 383-1423.

Access Crop Check at www.cropcheck.org.