Two years ago, Morning Fresh built a new office with a store in front where customers come to buy milk and Noosa yoghurt, or relax and enjoy specialty coffees and food items. > and 600 acres of corn at the Bellvue dairy, they farm 2,250 irrigated acres at Fort Morgan, Colo., 90 miles east. The Fort Morgan farm manager works with the CHS location at Yuma, Colo., for all its crop nutrient, seed and crop chemical needs. CHS sales manager Ron Graff, based out of the Wiggins location, provides agronomy advice and handles soil testing and tissue sampling. “After we soil-sample at the Fort Morgan operation, I sit down with the farm manager to decide what corn hybrids, fertilizer and chemicals we’re going to use,” Graff says. “We look at all parts of the agronomy equation, from seed selection to the time the crop ends up in the grain or ensilage bin.” Adding Precision At the Bellvue farm, the Graveses send soil samples to Graff and they go through the same decision-making process they do with the Fort Morgan farm. “I make the recommendations and they take it from there,” he says. This year, the Fort Morgan farm will enter part of its fields in CHS YieldPoint®, a precision agriculture program developed by CHS and directed by agronomic specialists. The specialists assist farmers with soil sampling and analysis, mapping and prescription writing, variable-rate application recommendations, record keeping, and farm planning. “The Fort Morgan farm has seven soil types and variable topography, perfect for CHS YieldPoint,” Graff says. As Rob Graves puts it, “As long as the 130 acres in the program make us more efficient, I’m all for it.” Q Watch a video on Morning Fresh Dairy with Lori Graves at chsinc.com/c. “Morning Fresh has grown to 7,000 home-delivery customers with just word-of-mouth advertising.” — Lori Graves SEE MORE Some 20 delivery trucks are used to make deliveries on the Colorado Front Range. 26 MARCH/APRIL 2016 CHSINC.COM