Ag Leader Technology Blog

As harvest season kicks off, Ag Leader’s customer support team is getting several calls about yield monitoring.  Before calling into the tech support call center, there are a few things to keep in mind that can help us more effectively help you. The more information you have ready ahead of time, the faster the call [...]

Now that the training season has come to an end, it’s time to start thinking about crawling back into the driver’s seat of your combine.  As you are preparing for your journey to the field, I thought it might be good to share some common questions from customer training and the pre-harvest checklist to ensure [...]

Yesterday, I went through the important steps in checking the physical components of your yield monitor. Today, we will go through the pre-harvest calibrations that you should run. Even if you don’t think you need to recalibrate everything on the combine, it is a good idea to check to make sure everything is functioning properly.
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Well, it is that time of year again – growers are beginning to pull combines out of the shed and begin preparing for harvest.  Last week, Precision Point included blog posts about preparing your GPS equipment and your SMS Software. Making sure your yield monitor is ready should be a step in this important process [...]

Growers talk about their experience with Ag Leader’s yield monitoring and the benefits they’ve seen on their operation.

In our last Lessons in Precision Ag post, we discussed the topic of yield monitoring and mapping, explaining how these maps could be used to compare yields to inputs. When it comes to the mapping capabilities of precision ag technologies, there are several other maps that can be useful when analyzing your field data.
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In precision ag, we are continuously discussing the importance of analyzing data in order to make management decisions regarding your operation. One of the key pieces of data in an operation is yield maps. Yield monitoring and yield mapping have been around for many years (in fact, Al Myers developed the first practical and applicable on-the-go [...]

Setting up your data collection cycle within your display is an easy way to keep your precision ag data organized. Once you have your Growers, Farms, Fields, Operators, Equipment, Products and Field boundaries loaded into your display, it is time to consider how you want to set your data collection cycle. The “New Season” feature [...]

Over the years, Ag Leader has worked with various universities and research organizations on precision farming projects.  These have ranged from the development of new technology, such as cotton harvesting, to studying the benefits of products such as autosteer and variable rate application.  One of the research organizations that Ag Leader has worked with is [...]

Harvest is progressing nicely here in southeastern Iowa. The bean crop is all but finished and corn harvesting is in full swing. It was a very rainy growing season but the yields are still respectable. Earlier in the season, when crop scouting, it appeared that yields were going to be below the normal county average, [...]

Since my last post I have toured parts of Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana.  No matter where you go the big question is rain and how much did you get?  Depending on whom you ask and where they are located you are bound to hear one of the following responses: “too little”, “just [...]

It’s hard to believe that July is almost here and fall harvest is not all that far away.  It won’t be long and the kids will be back in school and we will all be wondering the same thing – where did this summer go?  As I drive by corn and soybean fields on my [...]

I successfully made it back from Italy after the delay due to the volcano eruption in Iceland, a mess I hope I don’t have to deal with again.  With that behind me it is time to move on to Costa Rica where our new distributor Agricultura Cientifica is introducing Ag Leader products into the region.
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I came across the combine on the right (sorry the picture isn’t better, it was taken with a phone) while traveling in Europe this month.  This horse-drawn combine is from the early 1900’s and is made mostly of wood with some tins use on parts of the elevator.  Seeing this combine made me stop and [...]

How do you grade yourself at the end of the growing season? Are you considering a report card system for your fields? These growers will tell you why a yield monitor has found a place in their operation.