Savings can also be made by going back to the fundamentals. When the prices are higher, it becomes easier to add a little more of something, or try an unproven or marginal product, because our mindset at that time is that ‘it won’t cost me that much more’. We can help reinforce when it is proper to play offense or defense when it comes to applying inputs.
More often than not, delaying decisions lead to both poor performance and loss of yield. In these situations, we have lost twice first from wasting the money spent on the input, and second, the loss of production.