Malcom Azcurra, CREA (Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, Argentina) 

Malcom has been leading a group of farmers called CREA MELO SERRANO, helping them make the zone maps first and then taking the group to the next step — planting by zones and fertilizing, using each farmer's different planters and equipment. 

CREA launched a zone management program in which zones are divided according to soil structure, texture and composition. All farmers in the group would stop talking about fields and would start using the same language ZONES.

Malcom picked up samples and identified each zone on spot. Later, maps were made and the process begun.

Crops were planted, fertilizer was spread and harvest was completed. 

Now the farmers in the group can compare each other's fields, yield differences, corn types and more, as they live in the same area. 

-Maria Arlia (Rufino, Santa Fe, Argentina)

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