Great Plains | Implement Command
Improving tillage comfort
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The Challenge
Can we adapt tillage settings as conditions change across a single field?
Saving time while doing things better is a recurring dream for most people who are trying to run a successful business. For farmers, the dream comes round in spring and autumn, when it’s time for tillage.
Done right, tillage controls weeds, prevents compaction and increases yields.
Done wrong, it encourages soil erosion, reduces yields, and basically wastes a lot of time and effort. To make things more complicated, soil conditions change in different parts of a field. Until now, that meant stopping the tractor and getting out to adjust the tillage tool settings for each section. For many farmers, that would just take too much time.
Solution
Set, adjust and operate from the cab
What many farmers were looking for was a system to manage the tillage implement without getting out of the cab to manually adjust the settings. This is so that they can give every part of the field exactly the treatment it needs, from light to aggressive. Implement Command by Great Plains works with select models of Turbo-Max, Terra-Max, Velocity, and Disk Harrow tillage implements. All you need is an ISOBUS-compatible monitor in your tractor cab.
Benefits across multiple tillage practices
Key for farming now and in the future is to reduce the environmental and climate impact of how we produce and consume food. ‘’Spot fertiliser application’’ means that both seeds and fertiliser are synchronized and precisely placed at very high speed. Precision seeders with the PUDAMA system, place a fertiliser deposit exactly below and next each grain of maize – at a frequency of up to 25 per second. It uses a brush to hold the fertiliser portion and air pressure to release it at the exact moment.
Tilling in comfort
Key for farming now and in the future is to reduce the environmental and climate impact of how we produce and consume food. ‘’Spot fertiliser application’’ means that both seeds and fertiliser are synchronized and precisely placed at very high speed. Precision seeders with the PUDAMA system, place a fertiliser deposit exactly below and next each grain of maize – at a frequency of up to 25 per second. It uses a brush to hold the fertiliser portion and air pressure to release it at the exact moment.
Controls at your fingertips
To start with, you can control tillage-depth. To make on-the-go adjustments quick and easy, you can programme pre-set depths before you begin. You can also adjust weight transfer on-screen by changing the amount of down pressure applied to the wings. The screen also lets you monitor several settings, including the gang angle, the hydraulic reel’s down-pressure, and fore-and-aft levelling. You can change all these settings using hydraulic levers in the cab.
Implement Command system works on the tractor’s ISOBUS virtual terminal
Benefits
What are the benefits of the Implement Command System?
Set, adjust and monitor tillage performance from tractor cab
Operation from cab increases productivity
Tillage adjustments aid water infiltration and reduce erosion
For tractors with ISOBUS-compatible monitor
People
Voices from the Kubota Community
Iowa corn and soybean farmer Dan Masner explains why he decided to add a Terra-Max with Implement Command to his farm:
“I was looking for one implement to go out here in the fall and do one pass on the stock ground and in the spring be able to come back with that same implement and do the same thing: one pass, plant the beans, one pass to plant corn on the bean stubble.
I utilise Implement Command way more than I thought I would. I mean the ground I farm varies. I have some timber soil that tends to be a little harder as it’s drier and there’s just a lot of changes I’m making that I didn’t think I would if I couldn’t do it from the cab. The Terra-Max is allowing me to change wing pressure, disc angle, basket pressure and it has been very beneficial on these varied types of soils.
You know we’re always in a little crunch for time, trying to get the seed in the ground. To be able to change it on the fly and physically look back and see the difference I think is a big plus. The time factor, most of all, getting in and out and being able to do that and look on the monitor and see exactly where you’re at, to see the change of what you can do at your fingertips.”
Great Plains agronomist Blake Bergkamp sums up the benefits: “A great thing about the implement Command System is we can make all these adjustments, see them on the display visually and really refine our tillage settings to have that optimum prepared seedbed ahead of the planter.”
“I was looking for one implement to go out here in the fall and do one pass on the stock ground and in the spring be able to come back with that same implement and do the same thing: one pass, plant the beans, one pass to plant corn on the bean stubble.
I utilise Implement Command way more than I thought I would. I mean the ground I farm varies. I have some timber soil that tends to be a little harder as it’s drier and there’s just a lot of changes I’m making that I didn’t think I would if I couldn’t do it from the cab. The Terra-Max is allowing me to change wing pressure, disc angle, basket pressure and it has been very beneficial on these varied types of soils.
You know we’re always in a little crunch for time, trying to get the seed in the ground. To be able to change it on the fly and physically look back and see the difference I think is a big plus. The time factor, most of all, getting in and out and being able to do that and look on the monitor and see exactly where you’re at, to see the change of what you can do at your fingertips.”
Great Plains agronomist Blake Bergkamp sums up the benefits: “A great thing about the implement Command System is we can make all these adjustments, see them on the display visually and really refine our tillage settings to have that optimum prepared seedbed ahead of the planter.”
UN Sustainable
Development Goals
The Great Plains Implement Command System contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals of achieving zero hunger, promoting industry, ensuring sustainable development and protecting life on land.
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