Young Farmer Forum Talks Precision Agriculture

Kurt LawtonEquipment, Farmers, Fertilizer, GPS, Guidance, Harvesting, Planting, Satellite, Software, Standards, sustainability

Agriculture.com, one of the longest running ag websites powered by Successful Farming, has a social network for young and beginning farmers called Farmers For The Future. One of the recent topics centered around precision farming talks about a move into RTK and the CORS network.

The challenge is dealing with all ages and different colors of equipment. Sam asks…We have three green combines 1 newer the 2nd is 10-11 years old and the other is a dinosaur and the newer one being the only one with yield mapping through waas signal using original brown box from JD ( never right ). Next we have 2 Planting tractors both have 20/20 seed sense systems from precision no GPS. Sprayer we have a XLRD 1000 Pull Type pulled by a JD 4430 with a INSight and an EZ-Guide 500 waas signal. Spreader truck we have a Insight along with EZ- Guide Plus. Now I must say that it looks like we just put a down payment on a 06 Apache with auto steer by Raven. Also a new red combine is probably coming this fall 8120 Case and we are talking about buying a new corn planter also.. we put a lot of tile in we bought a tile plow.. No GPS also we have a 8530 JD autosteer ready for doing a lot of tillage and side dressing corn with anhydrous. 9520 T John Deere does a good majority of the tillage and also runs the tile plow. Now you see my situation figure out a plan for that to move into RTK.

Several growers have responded here.  Take a visit and weigh in with your advice.

4 Comments on “Young Farmer Forum Talks Precision Agriculture”

  1. My brother bought used John Deere 3520 T and it works great to help him runs the tile plow. Even it is bought in used condition and need some replacements in someparts, the engine could still work excellently. he is really lucky to decide on this tractor. If you are a farmer, you should consider having this tractor, too.

  2. My brother bought used John Deere 3520 T and it works great to help him runs the tile plow. Even it is bought in used condition and need some replacements in someparts, the engine could still work excellently. he is really lucky to decide on this tractor. If you are a farmer, you should consider having this tractor, too.

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