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Regenerative Agriculture and Direct Drilling
Regen Ag and No-till Machinery
New ProSeries opener for John Deere 750A drill
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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Chiles" data-source="post: 5557296" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Blimey, you’ve got a good memory. That must have been about 16 years ago.</p><p>The farmer told me to use all the seed on the field, he didn’t want any left. When I’d finished drilling I went up to him and apologised for having a bit left over and asked him where to put it. When he told me I gave him the seed in a bag that I produced from my back trouser pocket. He kept that seed in his ash tray in his office until he died.</p><p></p><p>To be fair you have to be precise to get that level of accuracy. If I need to I calibrate with scales accurate to within 1 gram and it obviously takes time. However the newer software is just as capable of matching this level, it’s just harder to achieve. For example with the old software you could see that you were using 20 kg of seed per run. If you had 30 more tacks left in the field you could see that the 610 kg left in the hopper was going to be enough.</p><p>Now I have to multiply the area I’ve already drilled by the seed rate and subtract it from the amount of seed I’ve used on the job to find that I’ve 610 kg left. I then have to work out the area of each run, I do this by noting the area drilled and subtracting it from the area drilled 4 runs later, I then take the average of those 4 runs to make the area per run of 0.108 ha and multiply it by the seed rate ( 185 kg/ha) to get 19.98 kg of seed per run. It’s a good job I’ve got full auto steer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simon Chiles, post: 5557296, member: 1233"] Blimey, you’ve got a good memory. That must have been about 16 years ago. The farmer told me to use all the seed on the field, he didn’t want any left. When I’d finished drilling I went up to him and apologised for having a bit left over and asked him where to put it. When he told me I gave him the seed in a bag that I produced from my back trouser pocket. He kept that seed in his ash tray in his office until he died. To be fair you have to be precise to get that level of accuracy. If I need to I calibrate with scales accurate to within 1 gram and it obviously takes time. However the newer software is just as capable of matching this level, it’s just harder to achieve. For example with the old software you could see that you were using 20 kg of seed per run. If you had 30 more tacks left in the field you could see that the 610 kg left in the hopper was going to be enough. Now I have to multiply the area I’ve already drilled by the seed rate and subtract it from the amount of seed I’ve used on the job to find that I’ve 610 kg left. I then have to work out the area of each run, I do this by noting the area drilled and subtracting it from the area drilled 4 runs later, I then take the average of those 4 runs to make the area per run of 0.108 ha and multiply it by the seed rate ( 185 kg/ha) to get 19.98 kg of seed per run. It’s a good job I’ve got full auto steer. [/QUOTE]
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