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North Central Iowa | On the row guidance comment, I'll share my experience that I don't personally find that necessary. This is assuming we are talking about the feelers for corn harvest. I plant with RTK and harvest with RTK. Currently moving the Incommand 1200 and 7500 GPS between the planting tractor and combine. It worked really well, especially after I figured out that the mounting plate on the combine for the 7500 wasn't quite centered. Once I adjusted that, I only occasionally found it "ideal" to nudge 1" to keep the corn plants nearly perfectly centered on the row units. I'm sure I could have almost never bothered, but it's always a little distracting to me if the corn is leaning hardly any as it feeds in.
I will add one additional thing, and that is I planted with a semi-mounted planter this year (Kinze 2100, 2 point with lift assist). And being in Wright County, IA, relatively flat ground. So a pull type planter on some side hills might be a different story with implement drift and having implement guidance could help that problem. This is my first year with the 16 row Kinze 2100 and had previously planted with a 16 row Kinze 2600 (pull type planter). Also the first year harvesting corn with the combine on RTK steering. So no experience on how that would have went with a pull type planter, even with RTK guidance planting. Don't know how much, if any, the guidance system attempts to correct for implement drift based on the tilt of the tractor. I've planted with RTK for years, but have always manually steered the combine in corn until this year. | |
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