Increase crop yield with improved seeding and application rates with Vantage BMS.
No matter the crop, topography or climate, all successful harvests begin with a good planting and seeding application.
Optimising the seed placement, improving seeding rates, and reducing row skip and overlap in your fields is your first opportunity to increase your crop’s yield.
By combining a range of precision technologies, you can implement a unique planting solution for your operation to optimise seed placement, better utilise inputs, and maximise your potential yield.
From section control to implement steering and VRA, Vantage BMS offers a range of Trimble precision ag solutions to optimise your planting application.
In this month’s letter, I’ll explore the precision ag solutions that enable you to get the most out of your crop by applying the right amount of seeds, in the right place, at the right time.
Implement Control & Guidance
No matter your crop or application, Trimble Agriculture offers an implement control solution to optimise your seeding application.
For either broadacre or row cropping applications, Trimble Agriculture’s TrueGuide™ and TrueTracker™ implement guidance systems offer a range of applications, allowing you to optimise your seeding application.
Our team partners with you to connect your Trimble displays into ISOBUS-ready implements or retrofit existing planters and seeders to be ISOBUS-compatible for controlling your implements.
TrueGuide™
Working in conjunction with your tractor’s Autopilot steering system, Trimble’s TrueGuide™ implement guidance system passively monitors and corrects your implement’s position.
The TrueGuide system steers your tractor to get your implement on the right line faster, reducing uncontrolled implement slip by over 50% more than manual control.
Ideal for row cropping with a smaller implement, allows you to operate with ease, no matter what guidance path you set to efficiently plant your crops and with precision.
TrueTracker™
Trimble Agriculture’s TrueTracker™ implement guidance system works with your tractor’s Autopilot™ system to guide the implement independently from your tractor, signalling it to follow the correct path when there is drift.
Ideal for broadacre farming and fields with difficult terrain, the TrueTracker system shifts and accurately steers the implement and tractor independently on repeatable paths with 2.5cm RTK accuracy.
It provides you with flexible steering options for a range of equipment and planting needs and controls drift, even on small implements, for greater precision in your planting applications.
Flow and Application Control
Apply the right amount of seeds, at the right time, and in the right place with Trimble’s automated flow and application control technology. Trimble’s flow and application control eliminates seed over-application, improving your yield and ROI.
Working in conjunction with Trimble’s Field-IQ crop input control system, the flow and application controllers enable you to control your inputs more precisely with automatic VRA, section control, and in-depth coverage maps to reduce input costs, overlap and underlap and optimise input application.
But just how much can flow and application control save you?
Trimble Agriculture has introduced a new Planting Calculator which uses important agronomic and equipment factors to provide a savings estimate achieved by adding flow and application control technology to your equipment.
Try the calculator for yourself:
Guidance & Implement Steering
Improve seed placement with Trimble’s guidance controllers, radios and receivers. These systems help to calculate the actual position of your equipment to improve accuracy in your seeding applications, even in difficult planting conditions.
Using GNSS signals for advanced positioning, the guidance controllers accurately monitor and map your field information in real time.
Free up time for other important tasks and keep your machines on the right designated planting path with Trimble’s auto, assisted, guidance or even implement steering systems.
Managing Data
Effectively run your farming operation, accurately collect field data, and maximise farm efficiencies in the field or in the office with Trimble Ag Software.
With tools and workflows for pre-season planning and planting, Trimble Ag Software makes managing your farm operations easier.
The software allows you to manage daily work and monitor field activities in real time, helping you to get your planting work done correctly and efficiently.
It also allows you to organise display data for precision accuracy in the field, easily share data across your fleet, and access information in real time.
Successful Planting Leads to Successful Harvests
Arguably, planting is one of the most important operations in the crop production lifecycle.
Our team is dedicated to helping Australian farmers increase crop yield with improved seeding rates and placement with Trimble Agriculture’s precision ag solutions.
We’re here to help you implement an efficient and complete end-to-end solution for optimising your planting applications; from implementing control and guidance, flow and application controllers, and guidance and steering to managing your farm data.
Futureproof your precision ag applications at the start of operation.
Contact us today to learn how you can improve your seeding rates and application with Vantage BMS
