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| I think moving forward we need to start thinking about down pressure in a more nuanced way. It isn't as simple as hydraulic versus air.
Air is good because it is like a spring and is compressible, so when something in the field tries to force the unit out of the ground there is resistance to that force.
If things had played out differently I strongly suspect you guys would have seen row by row pneumatic solutions. You may still...
Hydraulic is good because you can have higher energy density and can make changes more rapidly.
That is the concept of the RFX system. It merges a hydraulic system and a pneumatic system by having a gas pressure vessel integrated into it.
It will be interesting to see how the future of these technologies plays out.
At Dawn we are going to try to restate the business into being the "row crop ride control" business as opposed to the "planter down pressure" business.
Edited by joeatdawn 2/22/2016 18:17
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Any no-till guys on the high speed planting band wagon?
