Scott Speck
Scott is currently an Activation Manager for The Climate Corporation. At Climate, Scott works with internal and external teams to ensure customers of Climate FieldView are utilizing data to make decisions and drive profitability on farm. He has a passion for connecting foundational agronomy to technology tools and software, helping identify problems and opportunities while bringing the insight to solve them. Scott hold a B.S. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in Agronomy and a M.S. from Iowa State University in Agronomy. You can reach him by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @SPECKofDirt.
Digital Farming
October 23, 2020
3 Steps to Accelerate Ag Tech
Contributing writer Scott Speck examines the three steps necessary to break the slow adoption of new technologies across industries.
Digital Farming
May 4, 2020
Understanding Sustainability in the Digital Age of Farming
Contributing writer Scott Speck looks at the three pillars of sustainability and how they can be "supercharged" by going digital in agriculture.
Data Management
March 3, 2020
Making Sense of the 4 V’s of Big Data in Agriculture
The 4 V’s of Big Data — Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity — provide a framework that creates value from data for farmers to make informed decisions.
Digital Farming
January 2, 2020
6 Major Changes That Will Shape Global Agriculture in the 2020s
The next 10 years in ag will bring about some exciting advancements, opportunities, and challenges, says contributing writer Scott Speck.
Digital Farming
September 23, 2019
3 Ways Partnerships in Precision Agriculture Make Sense
The digital age has brought many partnerships in agriculture with new access to technology and tools. These strategic partnerships have become a daily discussion in precision agriculture, and for good reason. Partnerships are shaping a new model of business,...
In-Field Technologies
May 2, 2019
Zone Management in Precision Agriculture: 10 Key Questions to Ask Before Implementing Change
Another cropping season is moving right along in the Midwestern U.S., with some weather delays in many parts of the country, and other areas just starting or wrapping up with planting activities, writes Scott Speck on CropLife.com. As we...
Data Management
March 4, 2019
The What and Why of Benchmarking Data in Agriculture
Data management continues to grow in agriculture, and the opportunities for learning about decisions made, individual fields, and management practices have made many advances in the last few years.
One of the growing fields of data management for decision making...
Analytics
January 3, 2019
How Can Digital Agriculture Address the Top Challenges of the Future?
Every year it is always interesting to reflect on the past and look for lessons learned in the last year. Agriculture is facing many challenges as we arrive in the New Year, and lessons can be learned or thought...
Analytics
October 30, 2018
Harvest: Influencing the Season ‘Report Card’
Harvest is always an exciting time of the year, to reap the workings of an entire growing season and begin evaluating decisions to make for the coming season and year. Knowing how trials, varieties/hybrids, and management practices impacted final...
Analytics
September 5, 2018
The Power of Predictive Analytics in Agriculture
Years ago if we would have been told computers, data, and technology would be scattered around every farm there may have been a push back. Today, as we look at adoption of technology, some paradigms continue to vary in...
Analytics
July 3, 2018
Agriculture’s Next Breakthrough: New Technologies Are Driving Efficiency, Data Insights
We live in an exciting time in agriculture. Not only is technology advancing rapidly, but the understanding and comprehension of technology and data is becoming easier to decode and decipher. By 2050, the population of Earth will amass 9.7...
Connectivity
May 1, 2018
How Does Technology Fit in With Agronomy?
Agriculture today has been exploding with new advancements in technology, posing the future for a farm filled with data and information. Decoding and understanding this data through analysis and agronomics is key for success and finding the opportunities in...
Data Management
February 27, 2018
Opinion: Keeping the Agronomy in Technology is an Absolute Must
In today’s day and age, it is exciting to see so many developments in technology that can be applied to the farm scale. Every week we see new companies coming into the ag technology spectrum and with each a...
Market Watch
January 2, 2018
Precision Ag Technology: Use It, Don’t Lose It in 2018
With the start of the New Year, I always find myself reflecting on the past year and identifying what worked well and what didn’t to focus on opportunities missed in the previous year. As I looked back in the...
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