When a producer evaluates what is necessary to grow a good crop, there are very few inputs that can be forgone. At that point, our objective is to make sure every necessary input is applied at a proper rate at the proper time. Our focus needs to be on efficiency. A producer’s currency is bushels and pounds. Without enough ‘currency’, bills cannot be paid. Typically, when someone cuts back inputs, yield suffers more than the cost of the input. That can be a hard concept to accept, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any opportunities to save money.