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Creighton, NE | I used VRT planting for the first time this spring and got along great with it. I had an Ag Leader monitor controlling a rawson drive on a JD planter and made prescription maps with farm works software. The more years worth of yld data you have to work with, the more you can tweak your prescription maps. Most of the newer software will let you display two layers on top of each other (like yld maps & soil types) so you can fine tune your prescription maps even better. We have some tough dryland farms that have sand knobs that only get around 15-17K and produce 50 bu corn, but there are good draws in the same field that deserve 25-27K and will produce 200 bu corn . I would think that if you have alot of variability in your fields this system will pay for itself . It is also nice on irrigated quarters to have the planter automatically lower the rate in the dryland corners without having to worry about turning a duo-rate on and off.
Good Luck, Dave | |
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