36 AteToday? Thank a Farmer. Better Farming January 2017 UP CLOSE simply isn’t large enough to justify the expense of a combine, Don explains. But the family has justified the costs of their row planter by doing custom seeding. They send data collected throughout the growing cycle to their local input supplier which uses the information to create fertilizer prescription maps. “(The supplier) takes care of making all our planning maps and then they upload it right to our field view cloud account and then it automatically syncs with the (tablet) and when it’s plugged into the planter monitor, away we go,” says Neal. Neal Huber