I tagged along with the precision crew at John Deere dealer Riesterer and Schnell in eastern Wisconsin last week. Among the several takeaways from the visit, they told me there’s one precision tool in particular that’s really paying off for farmers right now.

“Big one we’re utilizing here into harvest is AutoPath. That would be something we set up in the spring with putting a receiver on the planter and mapping every single corn row through the field. That basically sets up for our application passes and harvest passes to where that equipment pulls into the field, knows where every single corn row is in the field, to be the most efficient through the field as possible. The customer doesn’t have to count rows when they’re getting in with the sprayer or the combine or the sidedress machine. It automatically knows where they need to be in that field, and it continues to put those passes in the same exact spot if you’re pulling in multiple times with an application piece. There’s been a huge take rate on that. Once customers utilize it, they often question why they didn’t do it earlier.”

I’ll have much more from my visit with Trevor soon on PrecisionFarmingDealer.com.