What Is Your VRT Strategy Doing For You?

Doug Mackay - Geo-Coach

Doug Mackay is a Geo-Coach affiliated with the Agri-Trend Geo Solutions Inc. Network.  He is passionate about bringing practical precision farming solutions to producers and retail service providers by simplifying technical complexities into understandable and affordable solutions.  He works shoulder-to-shoulder with AGRI-TREND Coaches, Retailers and Farm Clients to bring the "geo" world down to earth.

Doug has over 15 years experience in precision farming technology including: early-stage precision farming research with Alberta Agriculture, development and marketing of an award-winning on-screen GPS guidance and control system, and consulting to agricultural colleges and provincial research and extension groups to further precision farming training and education.  He has authored numerous papers, presentations and reference guides on the topic of Precision Agriculture.  Doug is a Professional Engineer and a graduate of the University of Alberta (B.Sc. Agricultural Engineering Co-op Program).

What Is Your VRT Strategy Doing For You?

If you've been applying VRT on your farm successfully and you are looking for ways to refine and learn about continual improvement, this session will cover a few tips and ideas on how to keep pushing your operation into even greater profitability.

We have now grown our operations to a place where VRT is common not only in fertilizer but in pesticides and seed.  So what's next?  How can we keep pushing our farm operations to be more efficient then before?  As we review some practical examples of VRT that we have come to know and enjoy, like zone management fertilizer, we want to think even further down the road and start thinking about our VRT strategy and mapping strategy on our farm as becoming common practice.  During this session you will see and learn a couple ways to reach further into the data and results and come up with insightful answers and ideas to keep you a leading edge farmer.  This session titled "What is your VRT strategy doing for you?" is designed to give you helpful tips and ideas about what sort of "next steps" you can take if you are already practicing VRT.

Agri-Trend Geo Solutions delivers flexible variable rate strategies for seed, fertilizer, and pesticide.  Through access to many analytical tools including VERIS soil EC mapping, Satelite and Aerial Imagery, Yield and Topography mapping, they work to identify and quantify the best ways to precision farm.  From economic analysis using yield data to options for refining management zones even further with VERIS soil EC mapping, you'll want to make sure you attend the session and keep up to speed on where this VRT world may be heading.