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managing your soil<br />
Matt Vickers (right)<br />
teaches farmers<br />
about the science<br />
behind soil health.<br />
Data drive scientific<br />
approach for strategic<br />
soil management<br />
Matt Vickers believes in<br />
the power of science.<br />
And for more than 30 years, he’s<br />
been sharing with farmers how they can apply<br />
the science behind soil health to their operations,<br />
leading to greater profitability and better stewardship<br />
of the land.<br />
“My job is to teach soil management, plant<br />
physiology, and soil science,” said Vickers, who<br />
grew up on a farm. He owns Vickers Ag Services<br />
in DeWitt and is a sales manager for Ag Spectrum,<br />
which was founded in 1984.<br />
Ag Spectrum, also based in DeWitt, does<br />
business in 22 states. It specializes in a system<br />
that focuses on using data specific to a farmer’s<br />
land to provide nutrient recommendations and<br />
analyze production decisions year to year.<br />
The focus, Vickers said, is putting on the right<br />
product, in the right form, in the right amount, at<br />
the right time and in the right place.<br />
“If you do that, less will be more,” he said.<br />
He converted to a no-till philosophy on his<br />
own ground years ago, but he said he was skeptical<br />
at first as most farmers from his generation<br />
and generations before were getting decent<br />
results with tillage.<br />
But the science spoke to him.<br />
He learned from studying the research and<br />
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spring <strong>2017</strong> | <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> <strong>Farmer</strong> 77
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