Gator vs UTV: What Actually Matters for Fall Property Work and Hunting Season
Every fall we get a version of the same question. Somebody has 40 acres, a hunting lease, a firewood pile, and a fence line to fix, and they want to know whether a John Deere Gator is really worth the money against a Kawasaki Mule, a Polaris Ranger,...
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Fall Wheat Planting: The Pre-Drill Checklist Before the Tractor Leaves the Shop
The August 18 wheat prescription post walked through the data side of building a fall wheat prescription from last year's yield map. This post picks up where that one ends, five to ten days before the drill actually rolls into the field. The...
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Mid-Harvest Combine Repairs: What Actually Breaks and How Fast Koenig Can Fix It
Harvest is running across Ohio and Indiana right now, which means our service phones are running too. This is the week our combine techs stop taking lunch and start answering "how fast can you get to me" 40 times a day. If you are reading this from...
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Late-Season Forage: Stockpiling Pasture and Prepping Your Baler for the Final Cutting
The window is closing, so pick your paddock now. Choose your best-drained tall fescue or orchardgrass ground and close it off in late summer. That gives you several weeks of regrowth before dormancy sets in, which is where your extra grazing days...
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Fall Fencing & Feed Hauling: Picking the Right Gator for Livestock
Match the Gator to the load, not the badge: fencing and feed math Before you look at horsepower, add up your heaviest routine load. Twenty 50 lb bags of feed is a thousand pounds by itself. Add a post driver, a roll of woven wire, a handful of...
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Combine Yield Map Calibration: Trustworthy Fall Harvest Data for Spring
Data off an uncalibrated combine is worse than no data at all. It comes out of the monitor looking authoritative, gets loaded into John Deere Operations Center, and quietly skews every seed and fertility decision you build on it next spring. Before...
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Rotary Cutter Selection for Fall Cleanup on a Compact Tractor
If your fall property work list includes an overgrown fence line, a pasture that got away from you during summer, brush along a ditch that has not been cut in two years, or a field edge that needs to be knocked down before the leaves fall, the right...
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Reading Last Year's Yield Data to Build Your Fall Wheat Prescription
Fall wheat planting for most Ohio and Indiana growers is 3 to 4 weeks out. The seed order is either placed or nearly placed. The drill or air seeder is either serviced or on the schedule. The decision that is often still open at this point is the...
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Grain Cart Selection: Matching the Cart to Your Combine, Field, and Roads
The grain cart is one of the more consequential purchase decisions a corn or soybean operation makes, and one of the more commonly under-thought ones. Combine gets attention. Planter gets attention. The tractor pulling the cart gets attention. The...
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