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Farmington, Mo | Personally, I’m intrigued…however, seems like a lot there to go wrong. Guidance system, pumps, row guidance, getting stuck.
For some areas, may be the only way to irrigate. The use of manure effluent in a sidedress application is probably it’s biggest selling point. |
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northeast ohio | Tri-state manure event last week was at a dairy in NW Ohio. This operation has 8 units running and it appeared to be a game changer when it came to effective management of manure and wastewater. In an environment where compaction is commonplace there should be benefits too. Time will tell how it will work for swine pits and maybe biosolids if incorporation policies can be adjusted.
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Eastern Shore of MD | Went to a field day last week. Neat idea. My initial thoughts is that it is going take a 70-80 acre field to make it economical. I wonder about longevity a bit but they have at least one unit that has been running 5 years.
Probably work better on heavier soils where you can get by with less water than on our sands here although at the field day the 3.5" applied this year might make a 100+ bu difference in corn yield here due to our drought.
As said - a real good fit for liquid manure guys. |
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| Won't work on hills.Correct. |
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Colfax Indiana | We have discussed it. Seemed like we thought it would take 120 acres to make it work for us. Border view farms on YouTube has one. He’s breaking some drop tubes on his from turning into the tall corn. . Seems like it’s better to have a tram line with no crop for it to turn on. We y drop our Nitrogen and extras now. So we have seen the benefits ther. I can see getting water on the crop at the right time would be so beneficial. But I’m sure if it has electronics you should expect some problems |
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northeast ohio | A number related to slope was quoted that was much higher than I anticipated. High enough that if true would open the door to dairy operations in areas that are in more traditional rolling landscapes. I would also think in sloped environments that twin 40” to 60” tramlines could be utilized. Wouldnt surprise me if someone is working on a wide stance 4 wheel version.
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Northern Nebraska | For manure application it looks awesome. For irrigation it looks terrible. |
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Central Alabama | Agree, to me looks like a precision nutrient supplement placement system. |
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Donnellson, IA. Makes saying here easier. | I’ll weigh in more soon. I will run mine shortly. I think in comparison to pivot irrigation it’s not at all that type of rig. But on my soils even a few inches most years is a game changer. So far this year no need to add water. The most exciting part for me is the manure application. I will run mine on 120 acres of corn. |
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| Being a hog producer I agree except putting manure on top of ground in a 80/90 degree temps and humidity .. well let’s just say neighbors from quite a ways away will disagree with how awesome it is . |
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Douglass Kansas | From their website shows that you can force 250 gpm thru it with 115 psi, that takes a lot of power. That is 13.25 acre inches per day. So would take a little over 9 days to put an inch on 120 acres. Thing has up to 2900 feet of 3 inch pipe, 3 inch pipe is kind of small for that much flow. I think it would work best where you can split a field into 2 or 3 crops that have different times of year when they need water and run a lower gpm thru it. Like corn that is planted in April and soybeans planted in June. Corn would then need water in June and July and soybeans would need water in August and September. Add wheat to that mix and it would need water in April and May. |
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Donnellson, IA. Makes saying here easier. | 100% my plan
Wheat….corn……soybeans
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E SD | It's not made for $3 corn. |
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Donnellson, IA. Makes saying here easier. | What is? |
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Clark SD | My vote is a healthy soil |
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Donnellson, IA. Makes saying here easier. | I would argue that is important at any price point…
Unfortunately many trying to get to those results will not stomach lower returns…..unless they own their ground |
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| So we have one on our farm first year running it in southeast North Carolina sandy coastal plains soils. We cover about 120 acres with our unit and it has been great so far just like everything else it’s had some learning curves with it. I notice one guy was talking about the front 2 drops that where breaking off yes I have had that issue and we resolved it by removing one small clamp that would allow the hose to flex more when turning off the 50 yard line. The machine definitely will not replace pivots but it will open the door for more farms to be irrigated that couldn’t be irrigated other wise. We are in a severe drought in North Carolina and the corn crop is going to be bad, but if we wouldn’t of had the rain system we just could of taken a bush hog to the 120acres but I bet that whole 120 will probably average around 180 there is a few acres that it can’t get because of hose length limitis. So with all this being said it’s not a pivot replacement machine but it can fill in the gaps and help farmers with those hard to irrigate pieces of the farm |
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| We push 250gpm through our 3” hose with a 6” well that has a 30hp pump and well head pressure is around 130 and about 8 at the dump bucket of the rain machine it works. Below is a screenshot of my farm layout with rain
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Whittemore, Iowa | Sounded like we are ready today or tomorrow to run ours looks like an amazing piece of equipment that if works like it looks will steam line water evaporation in irrigation |
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ne il | Theirs a few here. Haven't heard solid numbers on price or yields. Just hearsay 300+ bu on corn. Google says $200k for a unit. If true seems way over priced in my opinion for what is their. I'd like to see the cost break down of a center pivot and compare to rain360. And a break down of yield results with center pivot compared to rain 360. |
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Northern Nebraska | If I can't grow 100 bushel more corn under center pivot irrigation than my dryland I've done something wrong. |
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east central WI | so does it track solely on GPS or does it have row feelers also? The guy i have planting my corn uses markers |
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NC South Dakota | It just uses GPS, Id want RTK or at least Terrastar for guidance on the planting trator.
You need a special dual antenna GPS on the planter and an apple smartphone in the cab, which will upload your paths to the cloud and 360 will make paths for the Rain unit to follow.
Mine just got fired up yesterday, a week late, but with last nights rain I think we will be ok. |
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