Most producers who say variable rate doesn't pay never actually mapped what's under their own dirt. Cory Willness, president of CropPro Consulting, built SWAT maps (Soil, Water, and Topography) after five years of research showed satellite imagery was never a reliable base layer for fertility decisions. Water, not satellite color, is what actually drives yield variability everywhere in North America.
What's Inside
- Why the same field can flip from your best acres to your worst depending on whether the year is wet or dry
- How reallocating an existing fertilizer budget, not spending more, is the easiest money in pothole country
- Why elemental sulfur outperforms sulfate sulfur on sandy hills that get regular rain
- What a nitrogen rate trial across 13 sites found when the highest paying rate turned out to be zero
- Why Western Canada has zero university precision ag programs, and what that gap actually costs producers
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