Farming Video | Matt & Layne Miles Put AI Combines to the Test in Rice Harvest

00:00:00 So guys, Matt Miles, lane Miles, um, you know, we've had the previous video we did in the mid-season, you know, comparing the seven, uh, 00:00:08 s seven 800 against our seven eighties here at the end of the year, uh, really satisfied with the machines, what they've done, the, the end cab experience on them. 00:00:18 You know, there's a, a, a lot of new data with that AI look ahead. I call it look ahead. I'm not sure 00:00:24 what the technical term is, but that combine is actually operating by what it sees is coming up in the future. 00:00:30 Mm-hmm. So, you know, what is that worth? Well if you, you know, if you look on the screen, this is just a, you know, how we compare 'em in the rice, 00:00:37 um, and Lane's gonna kind of go through this with you, but there's some pretty impressive numbers there. Mm-hmm. And then I'll talk a little bit about, you know, 00:00:44 operator, operator fatigue and what, you know, if, if a guy's wanting to look at what, you know, why should he buy this combine, you know, 00:00:51 we can kind of give you some reasons why, but if you wanna kind of go through the data where we can compare 'em on the rice. 00:00:56 Yeah. So right now we're looking at, at just shy of a thousand acres worth of, of data on rice, comparing that 800 to the seven eighties. 00:01:04 And we've gained, you know, to be able to, depending on which one you look at, anywhere from, you know, two or three tenths of an acre, an hour more up to, 00:01:13 you know, one of 'em is is just shy of an acre, an hour more speed, all roughly about the same. So we're gaining that through just 00:01:22 efficiency of the machine. Um, also same thing with fuel. We're, we're looking at about a half a gallon to just shy 00:01:30 of a gallon, a acre savings. So saving, saving some fuel there. And uh, same thing on our through throughput. 00:01:39 It looks like we're, we're on the S seven, eight hundreds, a hundred bushel an hour to 200 bushel an hour. 00:01:47 Um, more throughput on on the rice with the seven, eight hundreds. Um, that's kind of, it's just kind of a quick snapshot of, 00:01:57 of where we're doing that. And we're all ge we're getting all that through op center, which we use, you know, really day to day. 00:02:02 Yeah. Yeah. And, and another thing that that, that we see with this, with the new technology, 00:02:07 with AI technology is it takes a lot of the guesswork out of the, out of the operator. 00:02:12 So you know, if he can be looking at that crop and saying, okay, I've gotta do this or that of of course if the crop's down, you know, 00:02:20 you gotta slow down, but this machine will actually go in there and see all the different 00:02:24 variations that this crop's gonna have. Whether it's greener, uh, moisture content, whether it's down 00:02:30 and it will adjust that combine to be able to be the most efficient going through the field as you've seen with the fuel 00:02:35 you've seen with the acres per hour. You know, if we're saving a gallon, an acre, a gallon of fuel per acre, that's two to $3 depending on the price 00:02:43 of, you know, the price of fuel. So operator fatigue's another one. You know, we run these combines some sometimes 10, 00:02:51 12 hours a day, maybe longer than that, seven days a week for a month. So, you know, a guy's going to get really, 00:02:57 really tired if he's on a 1985 model combine 'cause he is doing everything himself on these new style combines. 00:03:04 A lot of that is taken away from the O operator, which makes his fatigue level go down, which allows him to do a better job, feel better in the mornings 00:03:12 and actually be nicer to me. And you at the end of the night, people ask a lot of times, well what does OP center do for you? 00:03:19 Well, I was that guy. I'm the old guy that when op center came out, lane started implementing our farm. 00:03:25 I'm like, I don't see a lot of, you know, I don't see a lot of benefits of this. You know, we went to a meeting and they said, 00:03:31 well the tractor will text you if it's doing something wrong. Well, the last thing I, with as many text as I get, 00:03:37 the last thing I thought I wanted was a text from my tractor. Uh, what I did figure out 00:03:42 5, 6, 7 years later is I'm almost looking for those things now, you know, if, if there's a a, um, almanac for a equipment, you know, farmers use Almanac 00:03:53 or a bible for, for farmers, the operation center is that we use it every day. We know where our employees are, we know 00:04:01 what their efficiency is. If there's a, a machine stopped in the field, we can text a guy, call a guy 00:04:07 and say, Hey, why is it, why is it, you know, why is it stopped? You can be in Hawaii and do this. 00:04:11 That's what's cool about it. You know, we don't, we haven't done that yet. Haven't done that yet. We're gonna do that one day. 00:04:16 But you know, you can be anywhere in the world and you can still look at each piece of equipment you got the productivity of it. 00:04:22 I'm not this advanced at this, but LA can actually remote display into the machine. Um, you know, I, I run a cotton picker and, 00:04:28 and a lot of times our main cotton guy will have to remote display into my machine and say, Hey, these are the buttons you need to push 00:04:35 to make this work the most efficiently. So, you know, there's that, there's, uh, you know, I'll ask Lane, how many acres do we like in this field? 00:04:43 He'll go to Operation center and say, well there's 26 acres remaining. It even tell you the time. 00:04:48 So we know, okay, we've gotta have the header trailers over here at field A at two o'clock 00:04:53 because we've gotta move all these machines to field C and we've gotta get across the bottle to do that. So it minimizes the, the work that you have 00:05:02 to do on planning through the day. Uh, and talk about just the, the little plan report that we use two or three times a day. The little 00:05:10 Oh yeah, yeah. So, so a lot, you know, we can, we can get on here and, and send what's called a plan to, to our guys to 00:05:16 where they know, alright, when I pull into this field, it's gonna pop up and it's gonna say, Hey, I'm getting ready to harvest this field and this is the variety, whatever. 00:05:24 And it's already pre-populated. We go a little bit. I say past that, I guess you would kind of regress that a little bit 'cause it's the first step of planning to 00:05:32 where you click each field that you want and you know, gives you the amount of acres and you know where they're all at. 00:05:38 And we use that next to daily on all right, we're going, we're gonna do this block, how many acres is that? 00:05:42 And I'll go in there and just kind of click, click, click and well it's 500 acres just for something quick, easy. 00:05:47 And we don't have to go in and and add all that up. Op center's been really a game changer for us here. Just be, just because, and just, and not just planning, 00:05:57 but making sure we know who's where. You know, making sure we know what equipment's where, how it's doing, how it's, how productive it's being. 00:06:06 You know, whether or not something's broke down. It, we do get that text message and that's really nice. Now I know every time my solution pump goes out 00:06:12 or you know, gets empty on, on my sprayer, but, but it is nice to know, okay, well there, there was a code. What's that code? So there's, there's several things 00:06:21 that we use daily on here and, and honestly it'd be, it'd be tough to do without It. Well how easy is 00:06:26 it for you now to with these work orders? So used to, you know, again, old school I'd write everything down, have 00:06:32 to hand figure every chemical. You put 2.1 gallons of this, you put 16 ounces of this, you put a bag of this in the sprayer land can go today, 00:06:42 click out a work order, it figures everything for you. Exactly what goes in the sprayer. And the guy knows exactly 00:06:49 where he is going, what fields he is doing. If he gets in the wrong field of spray, it won't spray. Correct? Yes. I mean it's, it's almost 00:06:55 what I would consider foolproof. It takes all the addition, subtraction, it takes the mental errors that I've made on rates. 00:07:02 You know, there've been times when I've double rated something and it's just because I hit the wrong key on a calculator. 00:07:08 The operation center will not do that. Yep. It's been, it is been, like I said, it's been a game changer. 00:07:12 We, we use it on the daily for sure. And if you're old school like me and you're close-minded, like I was, just try it. 00:07:19 All you gotta do is try it. It's, you know, pretty much standard on any piece of John Deere equipment. 00:07:24 We'll, retro back to some of the older equipment, it's um, don't knock it till you've tried it. 192 00:07:29.645 --> 00:07:30.565