Combine Yield Map Calibration: Trustworthy Fall Harvest Data for Spring

The yield map is only as good as your combine calibration 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...

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...

Yield Data to Build Fall Wheat Prescriptions

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...

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...

Pre-Harvest Grain Handling: Augers, Bins, and Dryer Prep for a Smart Fall

The combine gets the pre-harvest attention. It should. But every year, at least a handful of the frustrated harvest calls we take at the parts counter are not about the combine. They are about the auger that would not start when the first load came...