Karon Cowan

Owner, AgTech GIS - Karon Cowan launched AgTech GIS in 1995 to provide tools, information, support and training services to the ag industry using GIS and web based technologies. AgTech GIS has a 20 year history promoting products from Ag Leader Technology, recent addition CropTrak and working with all industry brands of software, always promoting solid tools to get quality data into the hands of decision makers. More than just a software reseller, Karon is a front line user of ag-specific GIS software products to communicate soil sampling information, yield maps, imagery analysis, field level topographic data and variable rate application prescriptions. Karon’s career focus has been to develop data and customer competency for growers, consultants and local agri-businesses through a personalized training approach. Since 2010 Karon has been teaching the hands-on lab portion of the Precision Ag Course at University of Guelph, Ridgetown Campus.