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Outback Max
Tech Specs: AgJunction released its advanced task controller for ISOBUS, the farm equipment industry’s most widely accepted and utilized electronic communication standard. The latest version complements the functionality of the company’s virtual terminal feature for Outback Max to support ISOBUS implement control by now supporting automatic section control and rate control for compatible ISOBUS ready implements such as planters and seeders.
Compatibility Index: ISOBUS Certified Component
WOW Factor: The latest version complements the functionality of company’s virtual terminal feature for Outback Max to support ISOBUS implement control by now supporting automatic section control and rate control for compatible ISOBUS ready implements such as planters and seeders.
AFS Pro 700 Single Control Center
Tech Specs: The AFS Pro 700 Single Control Center provides a wealth of functionality, from an operator’s seat with just a few touches, they can view up to 6 run screens on a single monitor to fine-tune options such as remote valve timers and flow control, auto PTO, engine speed settings, the wheel slip alarm, calibrations and implement settings, as well as other key machine functions. Factory installed to save trouble and time during critical seasons. A single, customizable, intuitive, easy-to-read display is used with Case IH tractors, combines, cotton pickers, sprayers, balers, planters, seeders and tillage to control and monitor key functions and track important information.
Compatibility Index: Available Factory Installed
WOW Factor: The integrated platform, designed for open architecture, enables compatibility with all the equipment in a farmer’s operation, as well as the systems from outside suppliers, including co-ops, crop advisers, financial advisers and more. Operators can take the display from one piece of equipment to another, no matter the color.
20/20 SeedSense
Tech Specs: With its color-coded, touchscreen display, operators can spot any errors in down force, spacing and singulation immediately. Users can zero in on the source, check it out and fix it. The Precision Planting system tells operators what they need to know about population, skips, doubles, speed, row unit ride, down force and ground contact. It enables them to seed precisely, maintain depth, avoid compaction and troubleshoot mechanical problems. The main screen summarizes everything and the most important metrics are the largest. Green means go, yellow means caution, red means stop and fix whatever’s wrong. The screen can be tapped to see row-by-row details.
Compatibility Index: Exclusively Aftermarket Product
WOW Factor: Easy to navigate and provides easy to see results. Find hidden mechanical problems and correct them at planting. Perfect planter performance by adjusting meters, vacuum pressure, transmissions and speed. Improve productivity and measure and adjust down force.
2940 Air Adjust Series
Tech Specs: Yetter’s 2940 Air Adjust Series allows operators to adjust up and down pressure with the touch of a button creating the ideal ride for the parallel linkage floating row cleaners and coulter residue manager combinations. The in-cab controller allows for quick adjustments from the cab with the touch of a button controlling five programmable settings and other functions. The ISOBUS capable, or Yetter controller, allows for adjustments quickly and as planting conditions change throughout the day.
Compatibility Index: ISOBUS Certified Component, Available Factory Installed
WOW Factor: To maximize seed-to-soil contact of the row unit for even seed emergence, the system allows for adjusting the residue managers from the tractor seat on-the-go based on field conditions.
Auto Fill
Tech Specs: Claas Auto Fill automatic filling of transport vehicles is designed for greater ease of operation on the Jaguar forage harvester. The system is based on digital 3-D image analysis. Through the interpretation of camera images of the accompanying trailer, the system is able to determine both the outer edges and the fill volume at every point within the trailer. Additionally, the system can identify the point of impact of harvested crops entering the trailer. The results are used to regulate the longitudinal and transverse position of the discharge spout relative to the vehicle axis to ensure optimum filling.
Compatibility Index: Available Factory Installed
WOW Factor: Automatic filling of large and small transport vehicles equates to less operator stress, decreased spillage and increased transport box filling. The system is driver-friendly and can be used in periods of darkness when visibility may decrease. The automatic adjustment also enables the working lights to follow the action.
X30 Console
Tech Specs: Topcon Precision Agriculture’s X30 console now offers remote access via Topcon Teamviewer, an Internet link to the in-cab console that can be set up by a USB-Wi-Fi adaptor or via an onboard internet port. The console also supports video monitor cameras to provide customers the benefit of viewing virtually any location on a machine. Topcon’s camera kit provides support for up to four cameras viewable on the X30 screen. The console also supports Topcon’s plant nutrient monitoring and application system, CropSpec crop canopy sensors. The sensor system offers plant nutrient monitoring for logging or can be used for on-the-go variable-rate application. Additional features include support for John Deere-R Series front-wheel drive tractors, articulated and tracked models, and support for Kuhn spreaders for sending rate information via the console’s variable-rate application function.
WOW Factor: Features a cellular signal strength indicator to provide additional diagnostics capability when using an RTK correction signal over a cellular link. The indicator uses a bar graph similar to those seen on cell phones.
