General
Technology on your Farm?
In your lifetime, what technology have you implemented into your farming operation that has made the most significant impact (financial, stress, etc)?
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Yield mapping. Especially to look at multiple years and compare the good areas to the bad areas, or to see test areas to regular practice areas.
And precision down force on the planter.
The rest of tech can be thrown in the ditch, in my opinion.
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I I noticed in your post it mentions stress. We had implemented two high-speed planters for our operation. One for corn one for soybeans. Both had all the technologies and all the advantages you could think of wish for or desire. Unfortunately when all this goes awry during planting season it becomes more stressful than it becomes helpful. Basically are planting season was a nightmare. Well the te...
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Sounds like you were on the "Bleeding Edge" of some technology!
It's a good reminder of the dependency you can created on tech and the agony it can cause when things do not go as planned! Thank you
auto steer/section control on sprayers and planting equipment
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On our small farm it was autosteer. The efficiency gains from longer hours with less fatigue, more acres, less overlap were the most notable.