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Stretching the RTK Signal to Capitalize on Custom Jobs

By Clair Urbain posted on June 24, 2019 | Posted in Industry News
J-Ace Farms, located near Blue Earth, Minn., uses precision farming practices in its strip-till and no-till farming operation. Matt Alford, and his father-in-law, Jim Erdahl, typically build strips in the fall for corn the following year using a 16-row Environmental Tillage Systems Soil Warrior strip-till unit, applying prescription-rate phosphorous (P) and potassium (K).
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What Farmers Want From You

Making Data Collection, Application ‘Fisher-Price Easy’

By Clair Urbain posted on September 21, 2018 | Posted in Industry News
Rick DeGroote, and his father, Duane, farm 23,000 acres in 5 counties in northeast and north central Iowa. Growing corn and soybeans that are either no-tilled and conventionally tilled, depending on the field, the farm team relies primarily on John Deere equipment for all tillage, spraying, planting and harvesting.
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What Farmers Want From You

Get Good Crop Data First, Then Invest in Technology

By Clair Urbain posted on May 9, 2018 | Posted in Industry News
The path some farmers take in their strip-tillage journey is to quickly adopt — and heavily invest in — RTK farm-by- the-inch technology. But for Tom Cotter at Cotter Farms near Austin, Minn., he would rather first get research need vs. want and properly develop prescriptions before going too deep, too fast.
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