FarmDroid remembers the exact location of every seed it plants to precisely guide its weeding knives later
I started a small custom spraying business in co-operation with Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1997. The standard marking system was the foam marker. I’m not a good operator and have a hard time driving straight up and down the field. In the end we leased an Ag Navigator GPS with no autosteer. But with the […] Read moreStories by John Gehrer
To all the Versatiles we have loved before
Our 1,000 acre farm is 40 kilometres southeast of the Versatile factory. The farm is not a crazy amount of work, which allows me to do other things beside farm. The size of the farm doesn’t let me buy much new equipment. The last new implement I bought was a canola swath roller in 1997. […] Read more
A farmer’s perspective on repair
I did not realize until now that there was quite as big a “movement” about aftermarket repair. I have talked to a few mechanics who repair mostly John Deere farm equipment, and they say up to 2006 they can get into most farm machinery computers. I get the sense that these guys are low profile […] Read more
