While precision farming dealers say they are meeting the service demands of their customers this fall, fixing bad switches on yield monitors or making moisture sensor adjustments, they are also feeling the effects of not only a busy season, but of an arduous albeit prosperous year.
A few years ago, Elite Ag Solutions, in Warren, Ind., purchased a Kubota RTV and retrofitted the vehicle with a variety of Trimble's precision farming features, including swath control, variable rate application and auto-steer, to make it a mobile demonstration unit.
The next phase of precision farming technology ” autonomous farm equipment” is no longer just an experiment. For the first time, farmers took the control panel and showcased Kinze Manufacturing's autonomous row-crop harvest system during a recent demonstration in Monmouth, Ill.
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.
When Darin Naescher, service technician at Kennedy Implement in Philip, S.D., heard about a new line of windrowers hitting the market last year with GPS capabilities, he had his doubts about how well the technology would mesh with hay harvesting machines.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we look at President Trump's tariff reduction on ag equipment, the latest dealer sales forecasts, and how high input costs are keeping farmer sentiment down.
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