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June 7, 2023
Nitrogen Management: Minimizing Losses and Greenhouse Gas Emissions with SWAT MAPS
If ten per cent of the fuel you put in your tractor disappeared, would you want to know why? What if sometimes it was all accounted for, and sometimes you…
April 3, 2023
Spring Snow Melt: Where will the nutrients go?
After dry years in Western Canada and the Northern Great Plains, an abundant amount of snow is more than welcome. Come spring, soil moisture recharge can be off to a…
February 22, 2023
All Maps Tell a Different Story: What is Yours Telling You?
There are many types of maps that can be used to make on-farm management decisions. Let's unpack how some of them work.
January 3, 2023
Why everyone should care about mapping soil organic matter and carbon
Everyone in agriculture knows the importance of soil organic matter (OM). It provides many soil functions, including nutrient cycling, improved water infiltration, and reduces soil bulk density that helps reduce…
November 5, 2022
Canola Digest: Take 4R to the Next Level
Many farmers follow 4R practices – perhaps unknowingly – because of the inherent benefits associated with proper nutrient management. This case study describes the 4R practices for one Saskatchewan farmer…
July 27, 2022
How variable is your soil?
Grid soil sampling has historically been the gold standard to measure nutrient variability in soils. But is grid sampling good enough? Or can we do better with newer technology?
April 20, 2022
Fertilizer Stabilizers: How Do We Use Them?
Often called by many names in the marketplace — nitrogen stabilizers, controlled release products or nitrogen inhibitors — fertilizer stabilizers are used to increase the efficiency of applied nitrogen when…
January 26, 2022
Drones in Agriculture: How Can They Be Used with SWAT MAPS?
Drones have received a lot of attention in agriculture, especially since they became affordable mapping tools about eight years ago.
December 2, 2021
Get More Out of Soil Sampling with SWAT MAPS
Each nutrient behaves differently depending on soil type, water flow and topography – features which are captured in high resolution with SWAT MAPS!
October 26, 2021
Understanding Terms Used to Discuss Soil Moisture Variability
In the development of SWAT WATER, a product of SWAT MAPS, the objective has been to provide three relatively simply datasets for users to interpret and drive management decisions
October 4, 2021
Using SWAT MAPS in Potato Production
Here in Prince Edward Island, our agricultural landscape is dominated by potato production. Rather than looking to Western Canada for solutions, we often turned to Western Europe and places like…
September 13, 2021
5 Ways to Use SWAT MAPS in a Single Season
SWAT MAPS are an incredibly useful layer of information to use for a variety of purposes.
September 3, 2021
Managing pH Variability with SWAT MAPS
Many areas of the world have problems with low soil pH, which can reduce phosphate availability and increase potential for toxicities from micronutrients such as aluminum (Al) and manganese (Mn).
August 4, 2021
Managing Corn Population with SWAT MAPS
Successful precision agronomy depends on creating the correct zone map that can group all the areas together that have a similar response.
July 6, 2021
Spilling the (Edible) Beans About SWAT MAPS
In Manitoba, Croptimistic and our partners are learning ways to use SWAT MAPS to manage potential issues in edible beans.
June 23, 2021
Knoll Management with SWAT MAPS
For every knoll that has been taken out of production altogether, there must be many acres that are somewhere in between… not fully productive, but not to the point where…
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