When it comes to precision farming, implement drift is one factor that can play havoc with field operations such as planting and strip tillage, and the precise placement of seed and fertilizer and other inputs.
At the Farm Progress Show at Boone, Iowa, RealAgriculture’s Bernard Tobin caught up with Case IH precision segment lead Kendal Quandahl to check out the company’s new active implement guidance system.
Quandahl explains that active implement guidance is a plug-and-play solution that significantly reduces or eliminates implement drift, enhancing yield potential while protecting against crop damage and operator stress. The system ensures implement accuracy in a wide variety of field conditions and operating environments.
The implement guidance system shares guidance line data between the implement and the tractor, ensuring planting, strip-till, side-dress and specialty windrow applications, such as potato production, are executed with precision. Quandahl notes that system was purposefully designed to be plug-and-play, with a simple single-display set up that is compatible with select Case IH early riser planters and select third party applications.
In the video, Quandahl describes how active implement guidance adds a steerable component to the implement to follow the tractor’s guidance line accurately. Watch below.
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