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Ag Leader Announces Hydraulic Down Force
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6 Simple Steps to Prepare SMS for Harvest |
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Tips From Tech: 2014 Pre-Harvest Prep |
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Managing Your 2014 Harvest Crop |
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Harvest Configurations or Calibrations |
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Ag Leader Announces OnTrac3 Assisted
Steering Systems |
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Capture Yield In Full Circle |
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Clearance Corner |
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Precision Ag Classifieds |
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Customer Referral
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Ag Leader Announces OnTrac3 Assisted Steering
Systems
by Ag Leader
AMES, IOWA, August 1, 2014 – Ag
Leader Technology today introduced its
latest assisted steering system: OnTrac3.
The newly designed OnTrac3 represents the
next generation of the company’s assisted
steering system and features a number of
improvements to the Electronic Control Unit
(ECU) and the Mechanical Drive Unit (MDU).
key update to Ag Leader’s assisted
steering platform is the addition of an
auto-calibration procedure. Through
auto-calibration, OnTrac3 provides a simple
and streamlined approach to vehicle tuning
and calibration.
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Capture Yield In Full Circle
By Aimee Cope, Farm Journal Multimedia
Machinery and Crop Editor
A system designed to listen and respond to plant
needs
In a perfect world—with ideal
growing conditions—today’s seed corn genetics can
produce a whopping 500 bu. per acre. With the
average corn yield in 2013 at 158 bu. per acre, the
question lingers: How do we capture the other 346
bu.?
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Clearance Corner! |
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Field Hub Kit, verizon
SlingShot Field Hub Kit,
Verizon- 117-0171-304 with Field Hub to Trimble AgGPS
FmX Interface Cable - 115-0171-913
Price: $1,500.00
Direct Command Custom Kit
for 2007 and Newer Spracoupe 7X50
AG Sprayer Kit- Direct command (2007 and Newer Spracoupe
7X50)
Price: $1,622.00
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Ag Leader Announces Hydraulic Down Force
8-Section Control |
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by Ag
Leader
Ag Leader Technology today announced
Hydraulic Down Force 8-Section Control for
planters. The addition of 8-Section Control
adds several new features to the company's
Hydraulic Down Force System.
Row-by-row sensing allows the system to
monitor and respond to the down force needs
of each row, in order to account for
frequent variations in field depth. The
system also adds greater flexibility with up
to eight sections of control and multiple
configurations available.
"More
sections of control and row-by-row sensing
are two factors that play heavily into
improving plant emergence and root
development," says Roger Zielke, Product
Manager. "By sensing with more precision and
offering more sections, the Hydraulic Down
Force System is better able to recognize
variations in field conditions and respond
by planting seed at the proper depth."
The system also features a unique stress
minimizing accumulator, which acts as a
cushion to prevent unnecessary stress to the
row unit.
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6 Simple Steps to Prepare SMS for Harvest |
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by Ag
Leader
It's hard to believe that August is already
here. For those of us on the support team
that means it's time to start thinking about
what customers are going to need to know
before harvest season starts. Here are 6
simple steps that you can do now in your SMS
software before heading out to the field.
1)
Create a backup
This is
one of the most important steps and is often
the one that gets skipped or overlooked. It
is critical to make a backup before updating
your software or making any big changes in
the software. Backups will ensure that you
have a starting point to go back to and that
you won’t lose your valuable precision ag
data if your computer crashes. To make a
backup, simply go to Services and
Backup/Restore Projects.
2) Update
SMS
As new precision ag
displays come to market or new firmware is
released, display file formats will change.
This means you will need to be running the
latest version of SMS desktop software in
order to read in those files. The current
version of SMS Basic/Advanced is Version
14.5. If you have registered online in the
past, you can update by going to Help –
Check for Updates. Otherwise you can
download 14.5 manually from our website.
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Tips From Tech: 2014 Pre-Harvest Prep |
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by Nick Hageman, Ag Leader
It wasn't long ago the focus
was on getting the crops planted,
fertilized, and sprayed. Hopefully the hard
work is paying off and yields are looking
good for the fall. With cost of inputs
remaining high and a dip in most crop
prices, it is very crucial to know what
practices were successful and which did not
have a good return on investment. Most
growers that have diverse operations are
curious on where the best yields are so they
can know which seed, chemicals, and
fertilizers worked best for their operation.
By having the Ag Leader yield monitoring
systems calibrated and ready for fall,
growers will be able to know which practices
made the most money.
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Managing Your 2014 Harvest Crop |
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used with permission from OPI-Integris
by
Chandra B. Singh, Ph.D., P.Eng. and Ron Larson,
M.Sc.
The forecast for a bumper crop and
delayed maturing of corn and soybean this
year in the US poses a big challenge for
storing and managing the grain. There are
also increased concerns of frost-damage in
some areas due to delayed maturity, but the
risk is lower compared to weather-damage
that occurred in 2009. Because of this
year’s late maturity and cooler and humid
ambient conditions, the field drying is
expected to be slow requiring grain to be
harvested at higher moisture than usual.
Proper grain handling and management will be
required for safe winter holding, and the
following factors should be considered in
selecting a grain management strategy.
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Harvest Configurations or Calibrations |
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For a quick refresher on how to complete
Harvest Configurations or
Calibrations, visit the Ag Leader
Technology's YouTube page to see short video
tutorials.
Follow this link to watch the videos.
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