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title: Management Zones
description: Areas of fields have different productivity potentials.  Yield maps have proven it.  Treating your fields differently is key to optimizing success.
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# Management Zones

## Areas of fields have different productivity potentials. Yield maps have proven it. Treating your fields differently is key to optimizing success.

### Years of Yield Maps

Some farmers have now been able to map yield for years, but there's a catch!

If we used a field's actual yields, we may have legends that would not be the same or different crops. You end up holding maps in both hands and essentially, you end up doing this:

![cat](https://processes.premiercrop.com/hs-fs/hubfs/cat.gif?quality=high&width=400&height=300&name=cat.gif)![yield maps](https://processes.premiercrop.com/hs-fs/hubfs/yield%20maps.jpg?quality=high&width=688&height=281&name=yield%20maps.jpg)

 

Using Premier Crop, you can use those yield files to not only visualize the differences in yields, but combine them to make Management Zones!

![relative yield](https://processes.premiercrop.com/hs-fs/hubfs/relative%20yield.jpg?quality=high&width=688&height=450&name=relative%20yield.jpg)

 

Notice the same areas, year after year continue to yield similarly?

![relative yield2](https://processes.premiercrop.com/hs-fs/hubfs/relative%20yield2.jpg?quality=high&width=688&height=225&name=relative%20yield2.jpg)

 

When we combine this data, we get a map that paints a pretty good picture. 

![MZ](https://processes.premiercrop.com/hs-fs/hubfs/MZ.jpg?quality=high&width=688&height=393&name=MZ.jpg)

### Manage Accordingly

Doesn't it make sense to push the areas in the field that yield the most to see how much they can produce? 

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### Inviting More People to Dinner

 

If you were to attend a dinner where the host invited more people than they ordered food for, your plate could look like this:

![LessFood-300x225](https://processes.premiercrop.com/hs-fs/hubfs/LessFood-300x225.jpg?quality=high&width=400&height=300&name=LessFood-300x225.jpg) *Think of your crop in this same way....what if you only push seed populations without feeding them differently???*

### Manage all Inputs

 

Planting higher populations to push yield without feeding them, doesn't make sense.

![Picture1](https://processes.premiercrop.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Picture1.jpg?quality=high&width=688&height=350&name=Picture1.jpg)

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### ABC's of Management Zones 

Zones have been an overused term in the agronomic world.  Most of the time, it's using soil information only.  Or, it could be referring to only seeding zones. 

So, here's a simplified way of describing how Premier Crop describes **Management** Zones.

![2024-05-14\_10-00-53](https://processes.premiercrop.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2024-05-14_10-00-53.jpg?quality=high&width=688&height=182&name=2024-05-14_10-00-53.jpg)

Years of data has helped to prove that we can be more profitable by doing just this!  Take a look at a portion of our Field History Report:

![2024-05-14\_10-10-51](https://processes.premiercrop.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2024-05-14_10-10-51.jpg?quality=high&width=688&height=309&name=2024-05-14_10-10-51.jpg)

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