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The Science Of Agriculture is
Here Today
Precision Agricuture --
DGPS site-specific measuring and
managing variability
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Changing The Image of Agriculture
Somehow, you can always spot the innovative, successful
producers. In years past, they were the ones with a little black notebook
and a sharp pencil in their left shirt pocket. Almost daily, you'd see them
flip through the pages and make notes about the weed pressure in this field,
the slow emergence in that field or the standability of a hybrid in yet
another. Needless to say, the yield from every hybrid and every field was
also recorded come harvest time.
Today, though, you can spot the innovators from a little
farther away. They're the ones with a Fieldstar DGPS antenna mounted on the
combine, sprayer or tractor. Like the farmer with the notebook, they're
still collecting information. But they're learning so much more and they're
making decisions by small grids, rather than by the acre.
Fortunately, AGCO can put you in that same category with
the Fieldstar Precision Agriculture System. Precision agriculture gives you
the ability to maximize profits by increasing yields while you adjust, and
in some cases reduce, inputs such as fertilizer, insecticides, herbicides,
seed rates and tillage practices. In the end, you increase the potential for
financial return, while minimizing environmental impact.
The Total System Answer
Mention GPS (global positioning satellite) or precision
agriculture and most people think only of yield monitoring or yield mapping.
And, indeed, Fieldstar is available as a state-of-the-art yield monitoring
system or as a complete yield mapping system.
But Fieldstar Precision Agriculture is all that and more.
Centered around our exclusive DataTOUCH Command Center, the Fieldstar system
gives you the potential to collect information, analyze the data and
implement all your decisions via variable-rate or site-specific technology
(i.e. planting, seeding, spraying, fertilizing, tilling, etc.).
FIELDSTAR isn't any newcomer on the scene, either. Even
though FIELDSTAR has only been available in North America since the
mid-1990s, AGCO has marketed precision agriculture systems in Europe since
1991. That's a decade of proven performance that can help you map your way
to higher yields and improved profits.
DATATOUCH Puts You In Touch
If data is the lifeblood of precision agriculture, the
heart of the system is the DataTOUCH Command Center. Without question, it is
the most advanced, state-of-the-art terminal on the market today.
In one compact, easy-to-read, touch screen display, you
can control all the functions of your in-cab system. Simply touch the
appropriate spot on the liquid crystal display. The touch-sensitive
technology puts you in command of programming GPS setup and field data
collecting or application commands with the touch of a fingertip.
No additional monitors are needed - whether you're
spraying, planting or harvesting. Best of all, one DataTOUCH terminal can
easily go from you combine to your tractor to your sprayer.
Considering the features, it's easy to see how simplicity
and ergonomics give the DataTOUCH Command Center the clear advantage.
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Easy to read both day and night with adjustable
contrast and brightness
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Unobstructed view to other operations of the combine,
tractor or sprayer
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Enclosed unit stays cleaner - no knobs to corrode or
buttons to collect dirt
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One of the largest displays in the industry
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Integrated, built-in data logger
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Information is easy to find and access
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An award-winning design - throughout the world
Make The Critical Decisions
If you're like most producers, you can already envision
how the Fieldstar system can fit applications other than planting and
applying chemicals and fertilizer.
Most customers, in fact, say they've used the Fieldstar
data to make other decisions that affect production, even before they
altered planting populations or chemical applications. Some have identified
the need for lime to alter the pH in a field. Others have spotted areas with
drainage problems and had drainage tile installed. And nearly all of them
have used Fieldstar to analyze the performance of different crop varieties
and hybrids.
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