Cool Soil IQ™ — Services & Pricing

Three steps. One goal: put your fertility dollars where they actually return — and stop spending where they won't.

The one-time investment in zone mapping and verification is the foundation. Everything that comes after — the annual fertility program, the VRT maps, the yield tracking — builds on that foundation. You're not paying for a recurring service. You're investing in a permanent understanding of what your ground can do.

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Start where you are. Standard and Verified are one-time investments in understanding your ground. Applied is the annual program that puts that knowledge to work every season.

Standard — Map the Field

Zone IQ Map

$5/acre
$1,500 minimum  ·  One-time cost

Most farmers are over-applying fertilizer on parts of their field that will never return it. Standard shows you exactly where — before you spend another dollar doing it.

  • Field management zones based on terrain and SSURGO data
  • Minor soil series identification within zones
  • ZoneIQ™ score per zone
  • FieldIQ™ score per field
  • Acreage by zone with relative productivity ranking
  • Zone-based sampling guidance
  • Ready to enter Cool Soil IQ™ Applied immediately

We map your field into zones based on how the soil actually behaves — not just what the soil test says. Every zone gets a ZoneIQ™ score. Every field gets a FieldIQ™ score. No field work required — everything built at the desktop from SSURGO data and high-resolution LiDAR terrain analysis.

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Applied — Annual Program

Fertility Management

$5/acre/year
Built on Standard or Verified · Annual

Applied is where your zone map goes to work each season. Every year we help you decide where to invest — and where not to — so every fertilizer dollar has a reason to be there. Each year of data makes the next recommendation sharper. After a few seasons, you’re not guessing at all.

What’s included each year:

  • Zone-based fertility recommendations
  • Soil test interpretation by zone
  • Yield map analysis & annual updates
  • VRT shapefile for your fertilizer dealer
  • Direct access for questions throughout the season

We don’t run soil fertility sampling in-house, but we can coordinate that process for you so the data flows into your program without gaps.

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What You Actually Receive

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Zone IQ Map

A clean, printable zone map of your field showing management zones, zone boundaries, and acreage by zone. Also delivered as a GIS shapefile you can open in any mapping software.

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FieldIQ™ Report

Zone-by-zone capability scores with the factor breakdown — what's driving the score up or down in each zone. A written interpretation of what the boring data found and what it means for management.

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Fertility Prescription

Zone-specific P, K, and pH targets based on physical soil properties and current soil test results. Plain-English recommendations explaining why each zone gets what it gets.

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VRT Application Map

A variable rate application shapefile your fertilizer dealer can load directly into their equipment. Compatible with John Deere Operations Center, Trimble, CNH AFS, and most retail variable rate spreaders. Includes total product order in lbs and tons.

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Sampling Plan

A zone-based soil sampling plan with recommended retest frequency by zone — more often for zones in buildup mode, less often for zones at maintenance. Takes the guesswork out of when to resample.

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Ongoing Access

Annual program clients have direct access to Kevin for questions throughout the season. As yield maps come in, we analyze them against zone capability scores to validate and refine the model.

East-Central Indiana & West-Central Ohio Service Area

Based in Fountain City, Wayne County. Primary service area covers the east-central Indiana glacial till plain — the same parent material, the same soil taxonomy, the same management challenges across east-central Indiana and west-central Ohio.

Virtual consulting available for operations outside the primary service area. Contact us to discuss.

A note on pricing: Standard and Verified are one-time capital investments in understanding your field. The zone map doesn't expire. The boring data doesn't change. You pay once to understand your ground — then Applied puts that knowledge to work every season. We don't run soil fertility sampling in-house, but we can coordinate that for you so the data flows into your program without gaps.

Financial analysis available: Kevin's background as an ag loan officer (10+ years, Merchants Bank of Indiana) means we can also help you build the cash flow and ROI case for agricultural investment. FinPack analysis, farm balance sheets, and enterprise budgets available. Ask about financial consulting services.

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