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In cab technology to help you farm better. We're talking about new advancements here at Commodity Classic.
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I've got Brandon Montgomery at the Fent booth with Temple Roads. All right, Brandon, you and I
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have done some different stuff. We got this, I didn't think this was your company's colors. I mean, I'm colorblind, but I thought their color was green.
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It's a little shiny. Okay. It looks a little shiny. I'd almost call it near to Purdue Old Gold.
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But anyway, you've got some technology inside of these tractors that you're saying it's teamed up with Trimble.
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Trimble just got fused, or you bought, uh, a year or year and a half ago. Yep. It's kind of a big new development.
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It was all about technology. Let's face it, it's not the old days of the, uh, just pure horsepower.
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It's now it's about how to harness data and continue to become more and more efficient and technologically driven.
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That's exactly it. So the, the reason this tractor's gold behind us, because we have Gold Star customer care,
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which is a full three year bumper to bumper warranty service maintenance package. But we now, we've included PTX Trimble
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Ag software is part of that. So that is now standard for farmers to be able to use that operation data platform Yep.
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To end their jobs, their tasks, manage their business, help them out, and also manage all their machinery, telemetry data platform. So I
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Need this from a farmer. Well have you just use the Gold Star warranty just by itself and the serviceability, you know, every time
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that we go as a farmer, I pull into my shop and I gotta need to service a tractor. I mean, we're talking about hundreds of dollars just for me
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to service it every time, hundreds of dollars. But it also helps them keep a better tab on what that machine is doing.
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And all that's talking back to a a, I guess a, A center. Right? That's exactly it. We want to get,
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make sure you get the res best resale value out of that machine, but also keep your uptime up while you're running it.
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But now we've got the data engine behind it too, where we didn't before. So Echo's made a huge investment between Precision planning,
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Trimble Ag software that come together called PTX. We have now included Trimble Ag software as part of standard with Gold Star customer care.
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So this isn't like a, you know, a update of how we we're gonna give you this service, but it's gonna cost you x dollars an
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acre or nothing like that. Correct? No, no, exactly. So even Gold Star's free, right? It's three years. So like, even like one example,
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this is just one tractor, right? The track tractor behind us over three years. Say you put 2000 hours on, that's 200 gallons of oil. Yeah.
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That's, you know, filters, parts, lube. I mean, you can get one filter for these things. It's like 250, $300. You,
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You're talking 40 grand. Yeah, you're talking 40 grand of value that's included for free.
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So now we include also the data platform for the software too, to help you run your whole farm and manage it between off board to onboard.
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Okay. And the thing is too, we know we're not, everything's gonna be fent on the farm right away. So it's compatible between the other colors.
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So you can use it for your other pieces of machinery too. Yeah. So that's the big thing about the Inca technology.
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So now I, I've, I've got, if I've got three different manufacturers on, on my farm, this thing has, uh, they see each other.
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Exactly. Okay. They all talk to the same system. All right. So we are probably the most flexible operating data platform. This is
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All part of the, the fusion with AGCO and Trimble, uh, a year or so ago. And now it's all coming to
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fruition to make a difference for the farm. Exactly. It's only gonna get better. Makes My life better. Makes it so I
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got more management. It's all about the data. We've been hearing that for several years in agriculture. Get me out here. What else do I need to know?
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The rest with Fence right now, we, we we're showing all of our products between the RoGator, the ideal Combine, the Fence six 20, which is new.
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Um, everything is standard again, with our coldstar customer care innovations. We've won several awards with our Innovations, a E 50 award,
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and we'll have a lot more coming at Farm Progress to see in the next couple months. Got it. So the system that's in this cab right here is
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started with the technology is a PTX system. PTX system. I Have an old piece of equipment, an old piece of fit equipment.
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I can buy that in Retrofit. Absolutely. Okay. Yep. Is there a certain date to go back to? In other words, if a tractor's 10 years old is still
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good, but if it's 20 years old, We're starting with the most, um, up-to-date user interface system.
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Yep. So like the Fent one operating cab and then the, the monitor that's in this tractor behind us as you go backwards.
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We can do those, but it's more USB stick driven. So rather than like an auto sync, you know, task management going uploaded to the cloud,
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those you have to use the USB stick. Alright, so I can, I can retrofit and the point is I can use this on an older tractor Exactly.
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Upgrade it. And then how much am I, am I, am I able to return this on investment within about a year? Oh, you have to. Absolutely. Well, it's just free.
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It's free with you, but it, farmers don't buy a event and they still wanna buy Trimble Ag software. Yep. They can buy that software regardless anyway, too. Yep.
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But I mean, to manage your data, have it on your farm, understand how to use the data and make decisions off it. I think that's priceless.
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I agree with you. Brandon Montgomery coming at you from the Fent booth here at Commodity Class of 2025, bringing innovations and new ideas that you can apply
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to your farm to help farm better. I'm joined by Temple Roads with XT Extreme Ag. So next time Damian Mason, helping you farm better
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