Ladoga, IN, United States, North America, Earth | If you are spraying by foam markers alone, or even with a lightbar you feel you are shifting +-3 ft, then yes it can pay for itself. What really helps sell autosteer is the section control. By the time you get your section control in, you are usually just one step away from having assisted steering.
Autosteer does 2 things. It makes you more efficient by not overlapping, and it makes you less tired at the end of the day.
Just for easy figuring, say you are working ground at 5.5 mph and you have a rather large piece of equipment, say a 44 ft field cultivator. If you are overlapping 4 ft constantly, over a 10 hour work day, you've lost 25 acres of efficiency. Or, with a 44 ft field cultivator you've added another hour of work. So if your not overlapping, you could do more work in less time by only overlapping a 1/2 of a foot.
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does autosteer actually pay?
