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Sep 8
2 min

Managing Spatial and Seasonal Soil Moisture Variability with SWAT WATER

Leveraging the SWAT MAPS variable rate technology, Croptimistic Technology Inc. has developed SWAT WATER, a zone-based soil moisture balance

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Aug 24
3 min

Risk Management Wins Again

When we think of risk management we often think about drought, and there are certainly opportunities to manage drought risk using SWAT Maps

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Jun 4
3 min

Consultant Feature: Tyler Kessler - Kessler AgVentures

“SWAT MAPS have changed my opinion on variable rate,” says Tyler Kessler, an independent agronomist and founder of Kessler AgVentures. Ke...

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May 26
3 min

What is Nutrient Responsiveness?

In follow up to Cory’s article “What is a fertility zone," I wanted to provide some thoughts on the term responsiveness. From a simple poin

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May 20
3 min

Consultant Feature: Jason Schley - Next Level Ag

Jason Schley is a SWAT MAPS consultant based in Alpena, South Dakota. He began his consulting business in 2000 and expanded it to include a

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May 19
2 min

Side-Hill Seeps: An Electrical Conductivity Anomaly

During the mapping season, we look at several electrical conductivity (EC) maps every day. Sometimes we come across something very interesti

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Apr 3
3 min

It All Comes Down to Water

Water: it’s the critical element for all plant life and I’ve realized over the past 18 months that it is perhaps the most important of the t

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Nov 5, 2019
2 min

What's the Limiting Factor?

With yield mapping and NDVI imagery so widely available now it’s not difficult for us as agronomists or farmers to recognize there is yield

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Sep 18, 2019
3 min

What is a Fertility Zone?

I (Cory) recently met with a group of agronomists that was all new to me. I asked them this question… ”From a FERTILITY standpoint please d

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Sep 3, 2019
3 min

Consultant Feature: Niki Beingessner - Synergy AG

Meet agronomist and SWAT MAPS consultant Niki Beingessner from Synergy AG, based out of Lewvan, SK. She has been providing SWAT MAPS for two

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Aug 27, 2019
3 min

Consultant Feature: Jonathan Zettler - Fieldwalker Agronomy

Jonathan Zettler is an agronomist, SWAT MAPS consultant, and the founder of Fieldwalker Agronomy, based in midwestern Ontario. When asked ab

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Aug 26, 2019
3 min

Yield Stability and Investment Risk

Yield stability… what does that mean? To me, it means the probability of getting a target yield in a specific area of the field. It also mea

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Aug 26, 2019
3 min

Benefits of SWAT MAPS: Achieving Target Plant Populations

Every year there is more and more focus on calculating seeding rates properly based on target population, TKW, and gemination %. An even (a

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Jun 18, 2019
3 min

Benefits of SWAT MAPS: Connecting Soil, Weeds, and Herbicides

This is the time of year where you are scouting or spraying a crop and may find yourself wondering, “Why is the foxtail barley so bad here?”

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Jun 18, 2019
3 min

Benefits of SWAT MAPS: Water, Nitrogen, and Technology

In the last post I discussed some thoughts about nitrogen dynamics by landscape position mainly focused around the effects of organic matter

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Jun 11, 2019
3 min

Benefits of SWAT MAPS: Managing Lodging and Delayed Maturity

Picture this: you just got home from a family vacation at the lake in late July and you’re excited to go look at that wheat field that was l

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Jun 11, 2019
2 min

Benefits of SWAT MAPS: Managing Salinity

What is the benefit of using variable-rate technology? This is first question most farms have before investing in VR capability, and for g

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