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June 18, 2021
Sulphur: Are You Really Applying the Right Rate?
Sulphur (S) may be the most variable nutrient we see in western Canadian and northern great plains soils, especially in glacial till soils.
June 3, 2021
The Role of SWAT MAPS in Environmental Stewardship
A SWAT map allows a farmer or agronomist to manage spatial variability across a landscape in several ways, including variable rate fertility, seed, soil amendments, or soil applied herbicides –…
May 11, 2021
Putting Nitrogen in the Crop, Not the Air
There’s a lot of talk of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts of everything we do. From “carbon footprint” to surface water pollution, agriculture is no stranger to negative attention.…
May 4, 2021
SWAT MAPS and Herbicide Degradation
Herbicides are a critical tool on any farm but we need to utilize them carefully as resistance builds and options are limited. While ensuring we are killing target weeds, we…
February 9, 2021
Precision Soil Moisture Management: SWAT Water
February 9, 2021 – Naicam, Saskatchewan – The newest development […]
December 16, 2020
Soil-Based Management Zones: How Are You Determining Your Soil Potential?
Soil management is a hot subject these days. Many companies are selling that “magic” formula, stating what you are doing wrong, and declaring they know your farm and your soil…
November 9, 2020
Nitrate Sampling in Corn Using SWAT Zones
I’m doing PSNT sampling for corn, what happens when I mix response zones?
September 8, 2020
Managing Spatial and Seasonal Soil Moisture Variability with SWAT WATER
Farming in dryland conditions is for the most part governed by the quality and variability of the soil in your field. Good soils, with high organic matter, mitigate both nutrient…
August 24, 2020
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 and variable rate inputs. But in wet…
May 26, 2020
What is Nutrient Responsiveness?
From a simple point of view, if I said, “this soil is likely responsive to copper," what I’m saying is there is a good chance, perhaps 75%, that an application…
May 19, 2020
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 interesting. Recently, while making maps for a field in eastern…
April 3, 2020
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 three pillars of a…
November 4, 2019
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 variability in fields. The difficult question…
September 18, 2019
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…
August 26, 2019
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 %.
August 26, 2019
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 means the risk associated…
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