Talking with the owners of few precision farming companies that have seen growth in Precision Planting sales in recent years, they offered a mixed reaction to the news.
Gary Wolf farms 500 acres near Verona, Mo., and continues to adopt precision farming equipment in his strip-till operation. But with that adoption, comes the challenge to cost-justify precision equipment upgrades.
Although the reliability and accuracy of tower-based RTK is still regarded as an industry standard, at least one dealer is transitioning into cellular service. We caught up with Brice Hennings of Central Illinois Ag, a 4 location Case IH dealership, to talk about the transition process.
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Mazeppa, Minn., farmer Rod Sommerfield has a very forward-looking view of precision agriculture. He believes the best evolution path is toward smaller, more autonomous machines that will look at the field microenvironment and adjust crop inputs for optimal yield on the spot.
Kansas City-based FarmLink has developed MachineryLink Sharing, a rental program that could open doors for dealers to generate supplemental income from idle equipment and technology.
In his desire to grow the family's 3,000-acre farm operation in Ailsa Craig, Ont., Steve Twynstra became interested in precision farming equipment he started seeing at farm shows in the mid-’90s.
Derek Smith, precision account manager for Environmental Tillage Systems, discusses the company’s new quick start guides, which serve as step-by-step directions for transferring guidance lines in strip-till to precision displays.
From technician to service manager to now chief technology officer, Layne Richins has pretty much seen it all in his 20-plus year career with Stotz Equipment. And now he’s at the forefront of implementing AI at the 24-store John Deere dealership.
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