Middlesex County, Ontario | Do your cultivator and side dress bar match your planter?
If you plant corn with WAAS and autosteer you're going to have straight lines but some of your guess rows are going to out, in 30" corn you are definitely going to see some 24" and 36" guess rows.
A problem is that if you are running WAAS and auto steer and also drop markers, you are going to see all those 24" and 36" guess rows happening in real time, and you'll be tempted to intervene by hand steering a little portion or by nudging. You can't do that. You can't mix autosteer and hand steering little portions or constantly nudging. You have to just commit and let autosteer do it's thing. It might drive you nuts knowing that you aren't doing a perfect job. Your uncle might refuse to use autosteer because of that reason. Each time you refill you will have to shift or nudge the line and you won't really know if you got it right until you get to the end.
You can use WAAS and autosteer for side dressing or spraying but you will be watching the rows constantly and nudging the line 3 times a round. It's less effort than hand steering but not much. It's almost not even worth it. I'd often hand steer but autosteer while trying to eat something or checking phone emails. It's not really good enough to cultivate with, but at least your rows will be straight to begin with which helps.
What you really want is RTK. I pull into the field, select my "Master AB" line, and I'm good to autosteer almost anything. I still hand steer hillsides because the pull type sprayer and side dress bar drift so far down hill.
Edited by WildBuckwheat 6/3/2026 18:31
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