[Don Boles]

Quote:maybe this will helpen you sharpen your pencil http://www.deere.com/en_US/ag/servicesupport/ams/amscalculator.html

That is a good exercise to go through. Great marketing tool and often an eye opener.
ebertfarms, I see you are only 19 which would help account for your "but to me, thats not farming" comment. The fact is ANYBODY will be more efficient and less fatigued using auto steering. "only one guy in our entire county has autosteer" Really? A traveler recently told me he thought there was more fields auto steered then not. And as soon as you figure out how to read the newspaper all day and farm let me know. I gotta buy a bigger newspaper!
You sound like you have a future in accounting (on the farm I mean). Nice to see some one this age have a passion for both.

Don

 

[Don Boles]

Quote: just my $0.02CAN

Now worth even more! At the moment.
And I agree with the rest of your post too. Except the check-up thing. Too lazy.
Your comments about autotrak ring with me, it seems the more uses you find for it the more useful it is. There's that one less (major) distraction, and I"ll give an example of something I didn't even think of till I did it. Straight cutting, hopper full, auger wrong side, u-turn, unload on the go. On the way back just continue to end as normal, passing by the 2 strips, then pick-up the 2 short strips. (I can see this actually works better real world than it does on paper). Any way if "they" take my autotrac away I quit. But I'm 53.

Don