Servicing the Cut Knife, Saskatchewan area, CropMax Consulting prides itself on offering sound agronomic advice and unbiased recommendations. Co-owner Justin Kelly and Agronomy Manager Taylor Muzyka say those are two main contributing factors of their business success story, and the use of SWAT MAPS has provided a way of doing so.

“There are a lot of applications that can come out of a SWAT MAP and that’s where your value and money is coming from,” said Muzyka. “SWAT MAPS gives us the right template for us to take our agronomic knowledge and apply our principles to the map.”

Kelly and Muzyka, along with Co-owner Cody Northam and their team of experienced agronomists have found a wide variety of use case scenarios that can be played with using SWAT MAPS, including making use of pre-existing moisture, pulling seeding rates where needed, and reallocating with what makes the most sense.”

“We’ve had lighter areas where we pull fertilizer or seeding rates so that we have less competition for moisture, and we’ve managed to produce a crop in areas where there was previously no crop establishment,” said Muzyka. “We’ve been looking into surface drainage alteration too because SWAT MAPS can set the stage for that discussion.”

“The moisture conditions change how we do VR year to year. On the back of five years of dry conditions, our zone 10’s aren’t drowned out anymore – they can be some of the best producing areas now,” said Kelly. “We’re actually pushing fertilizer in some areas whereas five years ago we may have cut fertilizer.”

In July 2024 CropMax Consulting celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Over the last decade the company grew to expand agronomy staff, conduct multiple trials each year, and continued to provide leading-edge expertise to farmers. While they also offer crop scouting, the team is continually shifting towards adding in new technologies that support decision making in the field and harnessing the SWAT ECOSYSTEM of tools such as SWAT CAM and SWAT WATER.

“The SWAT MAP always verifies our decisions,” said Kelly. “Other technology isn’t based on soil characteristics, but SWAT MAPS uses a ground up approach. We know we can trust this process and that’s how we’re able to offer our unbiased opinions. Our farmers have an inherent trust with us.”

The SWAT MAPS Team is proud to work alongside dedicated teams like the one at CropMax Consulting. Stay tuned with what’s happening in their area of West-Central Saskatchewan by following them on social media or visiting their website:

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Website: https://www.cropmax.ca/

If you farm near CropMax Consulting, please contact them to get the SWAT MAPS discussion rolling.