PINPOINT ACCURACY 

UNTIL NOW, harnessing lasers for long-distance measuring required an investment of several hundred dollars for true laser technology, or a willingness...

AgriVue Heads Up display 

By: Karen McMahon

Smucker’s LandMark II GPS guidance system now has a new wireless display unit called the AgriVue Heads Up display. ...

Precision ag upgrade 

By: BY WAYNE WENZEL

This past spring, Team FIN farmer Paul Gervais began testing two Ag Leader Insight monitors: one on his combine and another to provide GPS-guided steering...

MULTIFUNCTION CONTROLLER 

FARMERS familiar with Kee Technologies' X10 and X15 models will find that its Zynx X20 is a vastly improved all-in-one precision ag control device. The...

NEW GPS ANTENNA AND RECEIVER 

OPERATORS can purchase Raven's 410 GPS antenna and receiver at submeter-level accuracy and later upgrade to decimeter accuracy using the same antenna...

LOW-COST GUIDANCE 

THE OUTBACK S2 features receiver improvements, enabling it to achieve a 50% increase in accuracy and performance over its S model predecessor. Like the...

Multi-function controller 

By: Wayne Wenzel

Next-generation precision ag device is true virtual terminal...

Precision irrigation 

By: by larry stalcup

IT IS 1:00 A.M. in mid-July. The pollinating corn crop is receiving needed water from a center pivot. Suddenly, a tire gets stuck. Either the pivot span...

SMART MACHINES 

By: by wayne wenzel

IF YOU TOOK a quick glance at John Deere's new product lineup for 2006, you might conclude that nothing much has changed from last year. But you'd be...

Seamlessly smooth 

By: by daryl bridenbaugh

I WAS aware of, but paid little attention to, the infinitely variable speed transmission offered on the Deere 7000 series tractors and the continuously...