Spending a day with a precision farming specialist for this regular feature is always an adventure. This experience took a Precision Farming Dealer editor to west central Minnesota and an eventful 10 hours with Matt Rohlik, Integrated Solutions Manager at Haug Implement.
In this video, Matt Rohlik, Integrated Solutions manager, with Haug Implement in Willmar, Minn., demonstrates an unmanned aerial vehicle and discusses the dealership's success selling the products as an eventual gateway to offering service and support of the technology.
Matt Rohlik, integrated solutions manager with Haug Implement in Willmar, Minn., talks about checking the reflectivity of a customer's RTK signal and diagnosing the cause by climbing the tower and changing out a faulty coaxial cable.
According to Phil Moskal, integrated solutions manager with Mid-State Equipment, he works tirelessly through harvest to try to get farmers their yield map data. It's important to get this data out for several reasons.
It’s planting season, which means a lot of the technology we spotlight on this program is being used in the field as we speak. I paid a visit to Eagle, Wis., farmer Tyler Troiola who’s using John Deere See and Spray for the first time this growing season. He says it took his dealer about 2 solid weeks to install the system on his 2018 John Deere sprayer.
The college offers an associate degree in Applied Science in Agriculture (60 credit hours). Students enrolled in this program may specialize in precision farming technology by selecting up to 15 credit hours in this area and agriculture business, sales and agronomy.
The college offers an AAS in Precision Agriculture and customized precision ag- related training for agricultural producers, insurance underwriters, equipment dealer and agricultural cooperative employees and others.
Offering training on Ag Leader, Trimble, Reichhardt, Norac and Integris Systems in twice yearly customer training events (spring/fall). Also offering individual training opportunities on any HTS Ag products and SMS software, year round.