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Field days and trade shows looked a little different than usual in 2020. In July, Kendall Gee of Crop Intelligence, and Curtis Russell with Taurus Ag Marketing https://www.taurus.ag/team/ met in a canola field southeast of Regina to discuss how soil moisture data can help inform farm decision making throughout the growing season. The video includes a walk-through of live data from Crop Intelligence soil moisture probes in Taurus Ag demonstration

I was introduced to Crop Intelligence and soil moisture probes in the spring of 2018 by Ryan Hutchison. That fall, I joined South Country Equipment as a Crop Intelligence Agronomist and put two stations on my family farm in SE Saskatchewan for the 2019 season. This was De Roo Family Farms first year using Crop Intelligence, but I knew we could trust the data to push our yields higher. Weather is tricky to predict, but we knew that understanding moisture conditions on the farm was a no brainer

Informed decision-making leads to smarter decision-making. As Elston Solberg, Crop Intelligence’s own expert agronomist, has said before—"trust the data so you can crush the agronomy.”

The data that our Crop Intelligence app provides and the support that our team offers helps you inform your planning and decision-making&md

Adding Crop Intelligence to your tool kit creates a number of new opportunities for your farm. Here’s what we know from data analysis and firsthand experience with farmers and agronomists.

The Crop Intelligence app interprets data and that can help you:

Develop a baseline

Weather stations and environmental sensor technology is more reliable and affordable 

Soil moisture probes have been around for a long time, but they remain one of those mysterious agricultural instruments that only a small handful of people attempt to understand or use.

“Part of the problem is people don’t trust the information,” says Ryan Hutchison of South Country Equipment in Saskatchewan.

He was at Crop Connect 2019 in Winnipeg to give a presentation called Crop Intelligence — Trusting the Data. Hutchison, who heads up the company&r