A John Deere combine harvesting wheat in Northwest Nebraska
Despite the cold and wet growing season for most locals, the Winter wheat harvest will commence for growers soon. Now is the ideal time to ensure your Ag Leader yield monitor is ready to perform accurately and trouble free. Discussed below are methods for various calibration routines and operation considerations.
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Now that the seed is in the ground we can start working on making sure it reaches its full yield potential by scouting our fields, planning fertilizer and chemical applications and hoping for that perfectly timed rainfall.
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Even though spring planting has been delayed for many, the weather is warming up and everyone is working hard to get their crop in the ground. Here at the Academy we are working equally hard designing new courses, updating existing courses with new information, and getting ready for Summer Training!
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For several years now, Ag Leaders displays have been able to load previously recorded data from the same display as a background map. We have also been able to import planting reference maps for variety tracking purposes from multiple brands of planting displays using SMS Basic/Advanced. But how do you view your other data out in the field? Not all data is recorded by the same display, or even from the same manufacturer for that matter, and that same display likely isn’t in the truck with you when you’re driving by that field. Data like soil type maps, previous year’s application and harvest maps, and multi-year analysis maps can all serve a purpose whether you’re just passing by a field and have a question about what you’ve done in the past or if you’re crop scouting.
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With the use of prescription files increasing over the past few years; more and more people are realizing how beneficial proper product placement has become. Many of our customers’ use prescriptions to variable rate year round from liquid and granular application to planting. I thought it would be a nice refresher to walk through the process of how to import your prescriptions step-by-step.
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Ag Leader Europe welcomes Anita Van Iperen as the new office administrative assistant. At home, the Van Iperen’s run a 40 hectare family owned farm near the Ag Leader office. The family has pigs and produce mostly potatoes and sugar beets and some wheat and corn. Their sugar beets, especially, score extremely high in the quality scores. The sugar content is one of the highest in Holland.
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Did you know Ag Leader’s Machine Guidance Support has regional field staff? If you didn’t, then let me tell you about them. The Machine Guidance Support Group is now up to three field support technicians. They are located in key areas of the US to best support Ag Leader’s growing needs in the field.
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If you have followed my posts, you have seen a few that mention field trials (either by accident, or just observations in the field), and what you can learn from them. For those that are interested in doing trials, but not interested in the time it typically takes, there are tools in SMS to create them ahead of time and load as a prescription if you are properly equipped. Whether you are variably applying products across a field, and want a check strip, or if you area applying a fixed rate, and want to do a few different rates, SMS has the tools to assist you.
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Ag Leader recommends all of our growers stay up-to-date with firmware releases to ensure operation on the latest software improvements available. Along with display improvements, module firmware is also upgraded through the display firmware assuring your hardware is also functioning efficiently.
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Ag Leader introduced a new integrated switchbox in late February of this year. It combines the Auxiliary Input Module with the analog switchbox for a cleaner installation and appearance in the cab. Externally (pictured below) it retains much of the same look and dimensions of the analog switchbox. It is available now in kit part number 4100879.
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