Getting the Most From Your Data During and After Harvest
Harvest may be wrapping up, but that doesn’t mean that this year’s growing season is completely over. When the combines are stored in the shed, there is still one step left. This step involves making decisions for next year’s growing season based on the data that has been collected in the current growing season.
Read The Full PostCommon Yield Map Errors and How to Avoid Them
Yield maps are a valuable agronomic decision making tool. Unfortunately, they are rarely perfect straight out of the combine. By understanding common problems and their symptoms, many of these issues can be avoided during harvest or repaired in the John Deere Operations Center with a few simple steps.
Read The Full PostThe Most Versatile Sensor on the Market- The John Deere HarvestLab 3000
The John Deere HarvestLab 3000 is one of the most versatile and impressive sensors on the market. With one sensor you can measure forage quality during harvest, use it as a benchtop laboratory analysis tool for measuring stored feed, and even use it as a liquid manure constituent sensor. This enables real-time decision making that improves animal health, feed management decisions, and applications of liquid manure to crop ground.
Read The Full PostActivating FREE John Deere JDLink Connectivity
John Deere recently announced that its telematic service, JDLink, is now available for no cost on all compatible machines. There are many benefits to using this system, such as connected support, machine information, and agronomic data. The process of activating machines is simple, and can be completed in minutes.
Read The Full PostSprayer Performance Upgrade Kits
John Deere performance upgrade kits provide an excellent option to get the latest sprayer technology in your operation. These retrofit options allow you to install the latest John Deere sprayer technology on an existing sprayer, enabling features such as individual nozzle control, AutoTrac Vision and RowSense, See and Spray, and many others.
Read The Full PostPlanter Performance Upgrade Kits
John Deere performance upgrade kits provide an excellent option to get the latest planter technology in your operation. These retrofit options allow you to install the latest John Deere planter technology on an existing planter or toolbar, enabling features such as high-speed planting at speeds up to 10 mph, individual row hydraulic downforce, pneumatic row cleaners and closing wheels that are adjustable from the in-cab display, and many more.
Read The Full PostMaking Sense of Planter Downforce Margin
One of the most frequently asked questions our teams receive during the planting season is how to correctly set planter downforce margin. Unfortunately, there is no straight-forward answer or a standard number to enter into the display. However, by understanding how downforce margin works and some best practices for setting it correctly, it can be successfully achieved.
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