Tony Balkwill
2016
Scholar
Tony Balkwill is an independent Precision Agronomy Specialist based out of Southern Ontario. As owner of NithField Agronomy & Research, he technically consults and manages on over 75 thousand acres of cropland across several counties. NithField’s farming operation is the foundation for NithField’s research studies and trial program and consists of 1000+ acres of full production field scale research systems, many with multiyear platforms.
Tony is a Certified Crop Advisor, a graduate of the University of Guelph and educated at the University of Illinois where he specialized in equipment technology and crop sciences. Tony was also a 2016 Canadian Nuffield Scholar who studied internationally for two years on reclassifying historical soil type maps accurately into field specific management zones for variable rate systems.