Aaron Sheller is a seventh generation family farmer in Noblesville, Ind., and his adoption curve of precision farming practices has been steep and fast. He's also co-owner of Precision Drone, a company that's developing crop-scouting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and information systems that interface with farm management programs.
Today, many farmers are introduced to precision agriculture through their equipment dealer. When someone purchases a Case IH tractor, it comes with a Trimble GPS system. If they buy a John Deere tractor, it comes with a Deere system. Regardless, farmers are told that each requires a separate network to access the necessary RTK corrections.
Tryston Beyrer works with his father, Bill, and brother, Jeco, on their 2,000 acre dairy farm near Colfax, Wis. Tryston leads a double life — farming, while also working on his PhD at the University of Illinois, researching innovative ways to band fertilizer for best placement and yield response.
"Farmers are mechanically inclined and want to understand the 'how' and the 'why,'" says Haley Harms, founder of independent precision farming company Pro Till. "My goal is to teach the farmer, on his or her own system, to the point that they can troubleshoot in the field, and operate at maximum efficiency, without relying on tech-support for basic issues."
With precision farming equipment capturing more data than ever, dealers are faced with the need to build a comprehensive strategy to keep that information safe and private.
For ambitious dealers, the collection, processing and analysis of precision farming data has shown significant promise as an added revenue source. But even for those who are less inclined to directly pursue this area of precision business, at least minimal handling of customers’ data is virtually unavoidable.
Having shadowed several precision farming specialists from multi-store farm equipment dealerships for this series, I’ve come to appreciate the layered responsibilities that come with selling and supporting the technology of a major agricultural brand.
Dave Swain, precision ag manager at Southern States Cooperative, discusses the recent launch of their precision aerial imagery program to provide scouting "roadmaps" and proactively detect and solve stressed crop or other in-field issues for farm customers.
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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