42 November 4, 2014 2014 LOGAN COUNTY FARM OUTLOOK MAGAZINE LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.com
Earlier this year, Central Illinois Ag of
Atlanta hosted a combine clinic to show
off some of the newest gadgetry and
drive home a big lesson to local farmers.
Today farming is about knowledge, and
technology is putting knowledge at the
fingertips of the producer, literally.
Throughout the morning, various Case-IH
experts talked about new combines coming
out, new monitoring systems and the duties
that can be performed from the cab; among
those was the evolution of the Yield-sense
technology.
From the cab of the combine, the producer
can monitor yields on an acre-to-acre basis
or even hopper-to-hopper, can measure the
moisture of the corn going into the hopper,
can map the fields by zones, and can track
the harvest by hybrid, all with a few pokes
of buttons. And it all occurs in real-time as
it is
computed through the Cloud.
But it isn’t a matter of push a button and
everything is all set. There are steps
involved in the set up that have to be
followed precisely and in a particular order.
In the new generation of combines and
technology, one new development is an
automatic set on the header height. The
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