PHOTO: DANIE BESTER
PHOTO: DANIE BESTER
DBX 12-row maize planter.
should consider better metering units! I took out my iPad and opened my Agfiniti applica- tion (Ag Leader’s mobile app) showing the map of the field we were scouting. I showed him the EXACT spacing, stand, singulation and everything else that my planter had logged ‘re- al-time’ on the spot. So, his excuse didn’t cut it.” “After he argued a bit about the accuracy of the data we went to a field where another cultivar had been planted. We checked the logged data on Agfiniti with what we were seeing, and it was spot on! I was able to show him precisely what my planter had planted and logged so he could no longer blame the metering or placement for the poor performance of his seed!” “I started collecting data on an Ag Leader PFadvantage yield monitor in 2006. In 2012 I converted my lime spreader to be able to do variable rate application. It was fitted with Di- rectcommand kit from Ag Leader (which is still working faultlessly) and a Versa Display run- ning an uncorrected signal. I did 1ha grid sam- ples and applied lime as needed. The system paid for itself in the first year.”
Autosteer on the planting tractor “I do a third of the fields every year in rotation for liming and P and K corrections. In 2013 I started to change fertiliser rates on a field by
field basis. At the same time, I also installed au- tosteer on one of my planting tractors which would then mark every other swath for the other planter with its planter markers, which saved a lot of time on the headlands, now that the one planter didn’t have to wait for the oth- er to turn. At that time, I was running 2 John Deere 1750 Max Emerge planters. I also con- verted my sprayer so that it was controlled by my Ag Leader Versa display.”
“I changed to NoTill with a 10 Row DBX plant- er which has Precision Planting v-Sets as standard equipment, we also installed a Planter Monitoring Kit. I then started to create Management Zones within fields and pre-planted the fertiliser at variable rates on all the soybean and maize fields, planting with a flat rate 2x2 fertiliser and then top dressing granular with a Vicon Geo-Spread spreader, which had an ISObus spreader that
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