You are not an average… · The Grow Skool

You are not an average…

Okay. Here’s the thing we all need to remember:

You are not an average.

I’m going to look directly into the LinkedIn camera and say it again, because apparently we’ve all agreed averages are a personality type.

You. Are. Not. An. Average.

You’re an individual data point. With your own soil, your own weather, your own compaction sins, and your own “this field is cursed” corner.

So for the love of God and good agronomy, use the data from your farm, not the “average” from a university trial, a nutrient booklet, an ag PhD, or a PDF last updated sometime around the flip phone era.

Stop farming like you’re a statistical concept

Averages are useful. They are.

But if you base your nutrient replacement plan on someone else’s removal rate, you might as well base your calving plan on the average pregnancy rate of cattle in Brazil.

You wouldn’t do that.

Unless it’s a Tuesday and you’re feeling reckless.

What we’re seeing in the real world

We’ve worked through nearly 100 removal tests with growers.

And yes, I’m about to say “on average” while telling you not to use averages, which is the agronomic equivalent of saying “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.”

Here’s the point:

When we pull the actual removal rate from your farm and compare it to whatever baseline you’ve been using, K-State, UGuelph, the co-op sheet, your dealer, or “Dad always did it this way”…

we’re saving guys about $10-12 per acre.

Not by doing anything exotic.

Not by buying a product with a logo that looks like a spaceship.

Just by saying:

“Johnny, why are you replacing nutrients based on someone else’s spreadsheet when we can use your numbers?”

And no, this isn’t a sales pitch

This isn’t a “trust me bro” claim.

This is not marketing. This is not vibes.

It’s your data.

It’s boring.

And it’s undeniable.

Which is exactly why some folks are having a hard time wrapping their heads around it.