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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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...
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Fall Prep Starts Now: Compact Tractor Attachments to Order Before September
Peak buying season for compact tractors is May and June. Peak buying season for the attachments that make those tractors actually useful is right now. If you bought a 1025R or 2025R or 3025E in the spring and are still running it with just the...
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The John Deere Operations Center for Small Farms: You've Set It Up, Now What?
There is a moment that every farm we work with hits in their first year with John Deere Operations Center. The setup went fine. The tractor is talking to the office. The mobile app is installed and shows the home fleet on the map. And then the...
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