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Digitization - the next level of grain and soy production

26.10.2015

Jeremy Leifker, Product Strategy & Marketing Manager, John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group, delivered a presentation titled "Digitalization - the next level of grain and soybean production" at the Precision Agriculture Conference.

He talked about the John Deere Operations Center's new digital platform, which wirelessly connects agronomic data with machine data to facilitate real-time equipment fitting.

“A very important question: machines have learned to plow and harvest crops without human presence, controlled by satellite navigation, but how much are they able to do the intellectual part of the farm work?” says Leifker. “For the farmer, it all looks like this: I have to grow my crop, fertilize it protect it and collect it on time is my way of life.I have to put the seeds in the right place, at the right depth, at the right distance from each other, make sure it's the right hybrid and the right population.The equipment can improve the quality of this work .

But everything that accompanies this process is a zone of agronomic support. What grain? What population? What is the fertilizer application program? What chemical crop protection? This is an area where retailers and agronomists play a key role in decision making and come up with plans for the farmer.

What we are doing is trying to combine all these aspects so that decisions are made by a machine - at the push of a button."

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