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Low-cost Precision Guidance for
Beginners
If you have yet to experience the efficiency of precision guidance,
now you have the opportunity to do it—all for a cost of 400 bushels
(or about 2 to 3 acres) of $3.50 corn.
John Deere is kicking off the new year by introducing its low-cost GreenStar™
Lightbar, partnered with a StarFire™
300 receiver.
“Many people are curious about why we’re coming out with this
simplified system now,” says Kyle Collins, senior marketing rep for
John Deere Ag Management Solutions (AMS). “There are many folks who
have not made the leap into precision technology, and this product combo
gives them the opportunity to get an entry-level system at an
entry-level price.”
The lightbar helps you manually steer on a straight course through the
field, and the StarFire 300 receiver uses the free WAAS satellite signal
to provide 13-inch accuracy.
The two components work on virtually any make or model tractor. It can
run as a stand-alone unit or with a GreenStar display, and the
components are easily transferred to a sprayer, fertilizer spreader or
other tractor.
“Best of all, you don’t need to own new equipment. The GreenStar
Lightbar and StarFire 300 receiver can work on any age and any color of
equipment,” Collins says. “These new products will help operators
gain even more efficiency from existing equipment at a very economical
price.”
Check out “Precision
Products for the Budget Minded”
and listen to Laura Robson describe these new options. Visit your
local John Deere dealer today.
For more information, check out these links:
Listen to Kim Fletcher, John Deere marketing representative for Ag
Management Solutions, talk about the GreenStar
Lightbar and describe an array of new
precision products at the Farm Progress Show.
Check out more details of the GreenStar
Lightbar.
View the many GreenStar
2 (GS2) features and options.
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Let the Corn Head Steer Your
Combine
If you’ve ever tried to keep a combine on the same row in down
corn, you know how stressful and virtually impossible that task can be.
However, if you currently utilize GreenStar AutoTrac™, you can pair it
with AutoTrac RowSense™ during corn harvesting operations to further
extend the value of automatic guidance throughout the year.
“RowSense combines data from mechanical feelers mounted on one row of
your corn head with GPS data from AutoTrac to provide precise guidance,
even in such tough environments as down
corn,” says Laura Robson, senior marketing representative for John
Deere AMS.
RowSense accurately guides the combine down the row at optimal
harvesting speeds, handling straight or curved rows, as well as expertly
navigating through grass waterways and weed patches.
“The feelers make incremental steering adjustments to keep the corn
head right on the row. And when they no longer sense cornstalks, the
system reverts to the GPS AutoTrac data to maintain the combine
guidance,” Robson says.
It is at the end of the day when the operator actually feels the
benefits of this technology. “By removing the steering task, growers
can focus on header and separator performance, field obstacles,
unloading on the go and more,” Robson says. “And every operator we
talk to who has used the system says it has greatly reduced their
fatigue and stress, so they are more rested at the end of a long day.”
Growers with John Deere 50, 60 or 70 Series combines (equipped with
integrated AutoTrac) with 90 or 600 Series Corn Heads can have RowSense
up and running in no time with their GreenStar 2 display and StarFire
ITC receiver.
Check out this mechanical
feeler photo, and listen to Kim Fletcher, John Deere marketing
representative for AMS, discuss how RowSense adds precision guidance to
help save down corn.
For more information, check out this link:
Learn more about how AutoTrac
RowSense can improve your harvest efficiency with less
fatigue.
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The real power in precision ag is finding a system that works for your
operation with expertise and after sale support you expect. From
planning through harvest, no one offers a more powerful lineup of
precision farming solutions than John Deere. From the simplicity of
hands-on Parallel Tracking, to the hands-free GreenStar
AutoTrac, John Deere is your one source for integrated guidance
solutions. To learn more visit www.StellarSupport.com
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Deere RTK Network Now Covers
160 Million Acres
If there has ever been a product technology-savvy growers could
label priceless—in other words, something they could no longer live
without—it would be auto guidance technology. More and more growers
are graduating to the best satellite signal possible—RTK.
Why? Because they can realize big input cost savings due to RTK
sub-inch signal accuracy and, best of all, have repeatability down
the same rows day after day, month after month and year after year.
John Deere dealers know how popular RTK is becoming. “Our dealers have
expanded RTK signal coverage from 25 million acres in specialty
high-value crop areas to 160 million acres across the U.S. and
Canada—all within the last two years,” says Jason Beuligmann, RTK
Network Specialist for John Deere AMS. “And a lot of that growth has
come in the Midwest and the Southeast.”
The one-inch accuracy and repeatability of RTK provide benefits to
growers in two ways. “They achieve higher-yielding crops while
decreasing their input costs,” Beuligmann says. “The exact accuracy
of the RTK signal eliminates the common issue of satellite drift, making
current AMS technology more efficient.
“For example, with RTK, our Swath
Control Pro technology can save enough on seed and chemical cost to
pay for itself in the first two years,” he says.
“And for growers practicing strip-till, they really like the
year-to-year repeatability with RTK, allowing them to plant in the
middle of the strip that was built and fertilized in the fall.”
Growers continue to say that they place huge value on the mental and
physical benefits of the technology. “After a 12-hour day in the
field, producers say they have less stress and fatigue compared to
driving manually,” Beuligmann says. “And they are doing a better job
in the field.”
Beuligmann sees continued growth for RTK in both number of acres covered
and number of applications. He states, “Bottom line is that RTK will
help deliver more accurate GPS solutions and information to the producer
which will help them make better management decisions for the
future.”
For more information, check out these links:
More stories on RTK
technology appear on the continually updated blog site Precision Pays.
GPS
receiver technology update.
StarFire
RTK eliminates all GPS drift.
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Use GPS to Build Levees and
Ditches
Managing water in a field just got easier, without the use of
lasers, thanks to new Surface Water Pro software and John Deere
GreenStar components.
Whether you’re a rice farmer trying to level fields and build levees,
or a flatland farmer trying to remove water with ditching, Surface Water
Pro and Surface Water Pro Plus improve productivity and accuracy.
“Compared to a laser system that has high start-up costs plus
limitations like distance restrictions and earth curvature issues, this
software is an economical, more accurate alternative for managing
ditches and levees,” says Chrissie Cartmell, marketing representative,
John Deere AMS.
“Growers with a GreenStar 2 2600 Display can simply obtain an
activation for the product, available in early 2009, to begin operating
the technology. They also need to have receivers for both vehicle and
implement, and an RTK AutoTrac activation. When combined with AutoTrac
GPS-based guidance, the operator can repeat operations in subsequent
years,” she says.
Surface Water Pro has three features: Survey Mode to record elevations,
Levee Mode to record and build levee tracks, and Basic Ditching Mode to
record and run ditch tracks. It also includes an optional activation of
Apex™ software to help manage elevation maps and levee/ditch tracks.
“For advanced ditching operations, we offer Surface Water Pro Plus,
which includes all of the Surface Water Pro features as well as the
capability to create a linear or best fit drain,” Cartmell says. “A
second StarFire™ iTC receiver on the implement gauges the elevation of
the actual blade position and displays automatically where it needs to
be adjusted manually by the operator—indicated by a vertical
lightbar.”
For more information, check out this link:
Surface
Water Pro software news.
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