“Things are way ahead of schedule,” says Johnson Tractor precision specialist Dave Thompson, who can now shift from service to sales mode with the extra time on his hands. “We have customers that are done already and it’s not even November yet. I’ve yet to talk to anybody that’s not happy with their yields.

RDO Equipment Co.'s account managers or customer service advisors periodically ask me to check on a producer's operation through a “buddy seat meet and greet.”

Next Instruments' CropScan 3000H is a dedicated NIR analyzer that is mounted to a combine harvester in order to measure protein, oil and moisture in grains and oil seeds.

Precision agriculture has many benefits, but the results are only as good as the data provided. Yield monitors and GPS receivers can reveal much about a field's performance at harvest time