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May 20, 2020
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 soil laboratory in 2015.
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…
September 3, 2019
Consultant Feature: Niki Beingessner - Synergy AG
Meet agronomist and SWAT MAPS consultant Niki Beingessner from Synergy […]
August 27, 2019
Consultant Feature: Jonathan Zettler - Fieldwalker Agronomy
Jonathan Zettler is an agronomist, SWAT MAPS consultant, and the founder of Fieldwalker Agronomy, based in midwestern Ontario.
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…
June 18, 2019
Benefits of SWAT MAPS: Water, Nitrogen, and Technology
Nitrate-N is susceptible to leaching in coarse textured soils, and denitrification in saturated soils. So how could a SWAT MAP help us manage the risk of N loss even further?
June 18, 2019
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?” Or, “Why didn’t…
June 11, 2019
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 good reason. Equipment tech upgrades aren’t cheap and…
June 11, 2019
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 looking pretty…
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