Demoing John Deere S7800 Combine with Advanced Camera Integration for Double-Crop Soybean Harvest
7 Dec 243m 7s

Johnny Verell from XtremeAg is field-testing the John Deere S7800 combine while harvesting double-crop soybeans planted behind wheat. This advanced machine features integrated cameras that monitor crop conditions in real-time, overlaying data with traditional combine metrics like grain loss and foreign matter. It adjusts speed dynamically based on field conditions, such as thin spots or yield variability, with maximum speed settings programmed by the operator. Leveraging aerial and satellite imagery from the growing season, the combine fine-tunes its performance to optimize harvesting efficiency.

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00:00:00 Johnny Rell with Extreme Ag. We're out here today harvesting soybeans. These are actually double crop 00:00:04 soybeans, plenty behind wheat. So we've got wheat residue. We got soybeans that are about waist high out here. 00:00:10 You know, Deere brought out a uh, S seven 800 combine wanting us to kind of demo it and get an idea if it's 00:00:16 something we wanna look at next year. As far as the onboard camera system, the uh, harvest smart system that they have coming out as far as 00:00:23 where it has the cameras that are looking at the crop can, looking at crop conditions going on. 00:00:27 If you got thin spots in your stand, it takes all that into account speeds that combine up and down. And you know, it's pretty neat how it overlays 00:00:34 that camera system with the basic things that are already on the combine. It's taking into account your harvest loss, you know, 00:00:41 your grain loss, your farm matter, your broken grain. And it's constantly adjusting the speed of the combine to keep that combine fully loaded. 00:00:48 And it's doing that with what we've always had and overlaying it with the cameras that are on board now. And one other thing is doing in the background. 00:00:56 It took aerial imagery, satellite imagery from this past growing season and it has that running in the background. 00:01:02 So this combine knows what's going on in the background as far as the crop condition throughout the growing year. And that way it kind of sinks that up with the camera system 00:01:11 to make sure everything overlays and you get the correct speed for what the crop condition is. 00:01:15 As you can tell, we're going out there here about three and a half miles per hour. Three seven. It's speeding up now. 00:01:20 One reason it's speeding up, if you look around here in front of us, we had a thin spot where we were planting. 00:01:24 It was real muddy behind the wheat crop. So it's sped up, it's going four seven through here right now. 00:01:30 As you can tell right there, it's going four seven and then if you'll sit here and watch it, it'll start slowing right back down. 00:01:38 So bam, it slowed right back down because it got back into standing soybeans. It's pretty neat what those cameras can take in 00:01:44 and how that can help adjust to keep that combine running at an optimal speed. And the reason it only went to four seven instead of five 00:01:50 or six or anything like that is 'cause that was the max speed I have set in there. So I don't want it going over four, seven at any time 00:01:56 through the field And going through the field it'd go four and a half miles per hour down to about three. 00:02:01 A lot of that's depending on, you know, the crop condition, what the yield is. 'cause we were in a stream drought in August here. 00:02:07 The beans did not do this. If we get up on a ridge, it a speed up, probably four and a half miles per hour we fall off in a valley. 00:02:14 We'll drop down to about 3, 3 2, something like that. And it's all to do with the, the crop condition is out there, the yield coming in, 00:02:20 and then it backs it up with all the settings that you got programmed into as far as what you're good with on harvest, floss, farm matter, things like that. 00:02:28 So it's pretty neat concept coming out. And you match that with the automation of, you know, machine sink dumping on the go and stuff like that. 00:02:37 We're actually dumping on the go right now going through the field with machine sink. So you do all that and it just, it kind of takes everything 00:02:43 to the next level and it allows you to really set back and fine tune what's going on with the combine and, you know, kind of take some of 00:02:50 that fatigue out when you're running in real dusty conditions or real late at night. But it's constantly a dust adjusted on the go trying to see, 00:02:57 you know, what the conditions are out there. You know, you just overlay everything and just build that history 00:03:01 and it's, it's just gonna keep making adjustments to 00:03:03.805 --> 00:03:04.765

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