Deeper rooting corn and reduced fertilizer usage where the main goals when Floyd Koerner III and his father, Floyd Jr., made the switch from no-till to strip-till in 2004. It was also an opportunity for them to start variable-rate application of their spring potash, potassium and nitrogen.
As precision farming technology rapidly evolves, equipment dealerships continue to develop or grow their precision specialist departments to meet customer need. But keeping pace with growers’ thirst for precision technology is an ongoing challenge.
How would you rate, on a scale of 1-10, (1 being excellent, 10 being poor), your precision ag suppliers (major line and any independent precision ag suppliers) on their training and support of you as a precision ag specialist?
There was no dabbling in precision technology for Bill Darrington. He researched, observed, picked the right system and jumped in with both feet. An AgLeader system allowed him to install and control row clutches or section shutoffs on his Kinze planters, Blu-Jet fertilizer applicator and Hagie sprayer and serve as a yield monitor on his Lexion combine.
Precision Agriculture Professor Terry Brase has always loved gadgets. After creating a few maps, Brase — who Precision Farming Dealer caught up with recently at the International Precision Ag Conference in Indianapolis — says he came to a logical conclusion about where the technology would prove particularly useful.
Starting this fall, AGCO will include a one-year subscription to its AGCOMMAND telemetry system as a standard feature on its 2013 RoGator and TerraGator applicators.
From the 59th annual Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, Hemisphere GPS introduces Outback MAX with Outback ConnX — the next generation Outback Guidance system that redefines simplicity in precision farming.
Case IH made a splash in June when it announced a supply agreement with Great Plains Manufacturing, to produce twin-row planters for the world’s second largest farm equipment maker.
Here in the Technology Corner today, we’re talking about the PTx OutRun autonomous platform — a retrofit kit that enables autonomous grain cart, and now more recently, tillage operations.
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