Farm Profile - Mark Keating, Russell, MB

Mark farms in the Russell area producing canola, wheat and barley on 9000 acres. He is also a seed grower. He seeds with a Bourgault 5810 drill with a midrow bander for N using Zynx rate controller. Primarily he varies fertilizer at seeding and occasionally when fall banding. Mark was using a service for several years, increasing acreage every year for the first 3 years, then dropped the service and has been using no VRT for the past 2 years. He is now re-evaluating with the same service but implementing ways to measure if there is progress being made.