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Farm Performance Center

Discover hidden opportunities to improve profitability, protect grain quality, and maximize efficiency with HTS Ag's free Farm Performance Tools.

Planter Performance Assessment 

What's it worth to plant smarter?

Planting season sets the foundation for everything that follows. Even small issues with seed placement, emergence consistency, downforce, spacing, or planting speed can impact yield potential across every acre. This assessment helps benchmark your planter's performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and estimate where better planting accuracy could increase productivity and profitability. Understanding your planter's strengths and weaknesses today can help ensure you're positioned for the best possible results at harvest. 

Planter Performance Calculator

Grain Storage Loss Calculator

How much grain could be at risk?

Every bushel you store carries both opportunity and risk. Moisture migration, spoilage, shrink loss, and grain quality issues can quietly reduce the value of grain in storage long before it reaches the market. This calculator helps estimate the financial impact of grain management practices by showing how improved monitoring and management may help protect grain quality, reduce losses, and preserve the value of your stored crop. A few minutes spent completing the assessment could uncover thousands of dollars in potential savings across your operation.


Grain Management Calculator

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Harvest Performance Assessment

How are your combine and harvest tactics affecting your efficiency?

Harvest is where an entire season's investment in seed, fertilizer, technology, and management is finally measured. Even small inefficiencies in harvest capacity, machine setup, guidance, or yield data accuracy can impact profitability and decision-making. This assessment helps benchmark your current harvest operation, identify strengths, uncover potential areas for improvement, and provide practical insights to help maximize efficiency, confidence, and return on every acre you harvest.

Harvest Assessment





How Much Performance Is Your Planter Leaving in the Field?

Answer a few simple questions to get your Planter Performance Score and see where your current planter setup may be costing yield, seed savings, planting efficiency, and profit.

Takes less than 2 minutes Personalized score Estimated annual opportunity SeedCommand upgrade recommendations

Your Operation

Planter Performance Questions

1. Downforce Management ⓘ Too little downforce can cause shallow planting. Too much downforce can create sidewall compaction. Automatic downforce helps maintain consistent seed depth across changing field conditions.

2. Seed Placement Consistency ⓘ Consistent seed depth and spacing help support even emergence. Uneven emergence can create competition between plants and reduce yield potential.

3. Row Shutoffs ⓘ Row shutoffs reduce overlap in point rows, headlands, waterways, and irregular fields. This can reduce seed waste and prevent plant competition.

4. Variable Rate Planting ⓘ Variable-rate planting helps match population to productivity zones, placing seed where it has the best chance to produce a return.

5. Monitoring & Data ⓘ A planting display should give the operator real-time visibility into planter performance, including population, singulation, spacing, row performance, maps, and diagnostics. Better information helps catch problems before they cost yield.

6. Technology Age ⓘ Planter technology has advanced significantly. Newer systems often provide better automation, mapping, diagnostics, and upgrade flexibility.

Your HTS Ag Planter Performance Score

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Performance Level
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Category Breakdown

Planter Performance Score Breakdown

This chart shows how each category scored as a percentage of its total possible points.

Highest Opportunity Areas

Estimated Annual Planter Performance Opportunity

Based on your acres, crop value, planter setup, and performance score, your operation may have an estimated annual opportunity of:

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This opportunity may come from improved emergence consistency, reduced overlap, better seed placement, improved planting efficiency, and better use of the planting window.

This calculator provides a directional estimate for educational and planning purposes only. Actual results will vary based on planter model, field conditions, seed population, hybrid selection, weather, management practices, equipment setup, and installation quality.

Your Next Step

Your Planter Performance Score provides a high-level look at potential opportunities to improve planter performance, planting efficiency, and yield potential.

Save a copy of your results, email yourself a summary, or connect with an HTS Ag technology specialist for a personalized SeedCommand review.

Schedule My Free Planter Assessment

Want a deeper analysis? Our team can evaluate your planter setup, technology package, planting speed, field conditions, and operational goals to help determine where

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Grain Management Calculator

Many farmers adopt a "set it and forget it" approach to their inventory. Once it's stored, they consider the hard work finished. But what if it spoils or catches fire? Problems can arise when vigilance slips.  

OPI Grain Management ROI Calculator

Estimate how grain monitoring and automated fan control may help protect grain value, reduce over-drying, lower fan energy costs, and save labor.

1. Bin & Grain

Used only if known bushels is left at 0.
Enter 0 to estimate from bin dimensions.

2. Fan & Electric Cost

3. Avoided Losses & Labor

Example: avoid drying 15.5% corn down to 14.5%.

4. Soybean Rehydration Opportunity

Uses the spreadsheet formula: ((target moisture - overdried moisture) × 1.149) × soybean bushels × soybean price.
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Benefit Breakdown

Tip: for a conservative sales conversation, set spoilage/condition loss reduction to 0 and show payback from over-drying, energy, and labor only. Then discuss grain quality protection as added upside.

Planning estimate only. Actual ROI varies by grain condition, weather, bin fill, fan design, static pressure, utility rate/demand charges, management strategy, installed cost, and market price. Verify assumptions before quoting.


Harvest Loss Calculator

Even small combine losses add up quickly across large fields. Use this tool on the go to make precise adjustments to your ground speed, fan velocity, or clearance—ensuring more grain makes it into the tank and less stays on the ground.

Harvest Performance Assessment

See how your harvest operation scores across efficiency, guidance, yield data confidence, header management, and operator workload. This assessment helps identify practical opportunities to capture more value from the crop you worked all season to grow.

How this works: Enter a few details about your harvest operation. The tool will generate a Harvest Performance Score and identify areas where small improvements could make harvest more efficient, accurate, and profitable.

1. Operation Basics

How many suitable harvest days do you typically want to finish within?

2. Harvest Capacity

More after-dark harvest can increase fatigue and row-tracking difficulty.

3. Guidance and Row Tracking

4. Yield Data Confidence

5. Header and Machine Optimization

This tool is intended for educational planning and benchmarking purposes. Actual results vary by crop conditions, machine setup, operator experience, field conditions, moisture, terrain, and harvest timing.

Your Harvest Performance Score

A benchmark view of your current harvest operation.

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Assessment Rating

Performance Breakdown

Harvest Capacity 0/100
Guidance and Row Tracking 0/100
Yield Data Confidence 0/100
Header and Machine Optimization 0/100

Your Top Harvest Opportunities

Want to review your harvest setup before the season gets busy?

HTS Ag can help you look at guidance, yield data, machine setup, and harvest workflow so you can make more confident decisions in the field.

Take your results and make better decisions.

HTS Ag our goal is to take every dollar you invest in technology to start paying you back the moment you start using it. Contact us today and we can help you evaluate where those dollars can make an impact. 

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