SWAT Agronomy

On today’s episode, Tim continues his conversation with Cory Willness, President of CropPro Consulting and Croptimistic Technology. Today we share more questions sourced from social media on topics such as precision agriculture and SWAT MAPS. 

“If you don't have that real solid connection to the ground, your best technology in the world is not going to perform to its fullest potential.” - Cory Willness, President of CropPro Consulting and Croptimistic Technologies 

This show will feature people from a variety of backgrounds and geographies and interests in agtech and agronomy, but for now we are continuing our conversation with Cory Willness. I got him to answer some of your questions in part one, and we continue those in this episode with questions like: what’s the learning curve like for a new tech-enabled agronomist? And what’s coming next for precision agriculture? And what’s happening behind the scenes with all of this data? 

On Today’s Episode:

1:36 - Could SWAT MAPS be used to map soil borne disease pressure in a field?

3:31 - How does the industry look at precision ag from an input provider standpoint? 

13:20 - Does data analytics have a role in managing increased volatility of yield from climate change?

20:44 - With SWAT MAPS, you’re collecting all this data. You’re using it to help the farmer but what happens on the other end? Who owns it? What's the agreement on the data side with SWAT MAPS?

Make sure you subscribe to this show on your podcast platform of choice. You’ll find the SWAT Agronomy Podcast on all of them: iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, etc. 

Tune in for part two with Cory to hear more interesting questions about precision agriculture technology. If you have a question you want answered on a future episode, send it to us on Twitter using the hashtag #SWATAgronomy. 

The SWAT Agronomy Podcast is brought to you by SWAT MAPS, and hosted by Tim Hammerich.

On today’s episode, Tim sits down with Cory Willness, President of CropPro Consulting and Croptimistic Technology. To make sure the questions were relevant, they were sourced from social media on topics such as precision agriculture, SWAT MAPS, 

“If people just say this area didn't provide profit, they start abandoning it. And it's not always the right thing to do. That area might've needed more care, right? It might've needed more fertilizer. You just don't want to jump to conclusions with the profit map.” - Cory Willness, President of CropPro Consulting and Croptimistic Technologies 

Instead of asking Cory the same old typical podcast questions, we solicited most of these questions on social media. We cover a range of topics including: what the best approaches are to creating zones, the difference between SWAT MAPS, intensive grid sampling, barriers to variable rate technology adoption, the concept of profitability maps and several others. 

On Today’s Episode:

04:02 - What are the best methods or approaches to creating zones?

07:30 - What are the pros and cons to SWAT Maps versus intensive grid soil sampling? 

10:32 - What are the other primary barriers to adoption of a variable rate technology in general?

11:47 - What are the best widgets or after-market for data collection on sprayers and combines? 

15:22 - How much water/pesticide/fertilizer can we actually save with precision ag technology? 

Make sure you subscribe to this show on your podcast platform of choice. You’ll find the SWAT Agronomy Podcast on all of them: iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, etc. 

Tune in for part two with Cory to hear more interesting questions about precision agriculture technology. If you have a question you want answered on a future episode, send it to us on Twitter using the hashtag #SWATAgronomy. 

The SWAT Agronomy Podcast is brought to you by SWAT MAPS, and hosted by Tim Hammerich.

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