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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?”

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

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

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