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Hi, this is Kelly Garrett from XtremeAg. I'm really excited today to be in Saint Ann, Illinois. It's so flat here, I think I can see for 25 miles.
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This is not like Crawford County, Iowa, where I'm used to being at home. I'm on the Scott DeYoung farm. We're here with Scott and Adam Baird of
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Fendt. We're trialing the Momentum planter. It's a whole different soil system than I'm used to. Again, it's very flat here. You remember here a couple of years ago, Arthur and I had this planter out on my
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farm. We trialed it versus my planter, wanted to see if the technology on the Fendt was really as good as
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advertised. It proved that it was. And Adam, this is a big planter. It's heavy with the double toolbar system.
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It's heavy because of the capacity of it, things like that. What can you tell us about the weight transfer system and the wheel
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configuration on this planter that eliminates those concerns? Yeah, good questions, Kelly. So, when this planter was built, really from the
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ground up, how do we make a high-capacity planter? So in this case, we're carrying 130 units, potentially of seed, another 1,000 gallons of liquid. We got a whole array of row unit components.
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So there's a lot of different features here, and we want to run 10 mile an hour, right? So to do that, we know that we have to build a planter that will handle a
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lot of that. So from the ground up, the team that designed this planter, they started with how can we do this completely different around those things
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instead of trying to adapt to it. So you mentioned the tire inflation and the weight transfer system. That's what we call our load logic system, and
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really that's a combination of two things. It's the ability to increase or decrease the amount of air in the tires. When we get in the field, we're going to automatically let the air out of
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these tires to create a larger surface area to spread more of that weight of that toolbar around, and that happens across the full width of the frame.
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We also use that in conjunction with the automatic weight transfer system that is measuring how much weight is on each one of those axles as we move across the field and transferring the weight
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from that heavy center section out to the wings, creating a balanced toolbar across the width of the planter.
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I really think Fendt and the engineers have done a great job. I've been around this planter a little bit, being at my place and Farm Progress in
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here, and it is an impressive piece of machinery. Scott, I met you at Farm Progress last year, and we really have become friends then since the last 10 months.
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We're only a couple of months apart in age. We're kindred spirits where we're numbers people, and we want to be efficient. We want to go. We're maybe not going to be the guys running the planter all the
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time, but we're going to be the guys in the office, checking the numbers, making sure what's going on. What have you learned about the planter since then, and are
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you impressed with the efficiency it brings? Yeah, so correct, Kelly. There are a couple of things that I was looking forward to seeing. Once again, is the weight transfer system and how the
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air pressure in the tires adjust in the field. Compaction is a big thing. Even though we do farm sand ground, we still deal with compaction in our ground
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just like anybody else does. So the extra added capacity of the grain tanks and the fertilizer system on here, that's a big difference when you're in the field.
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And if I remember right, I think you guys showed a seven-bushel advantage- Right
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... when you guys did the trial back at your house. So we're kind of looking forward to see if we see the same thing here or not. Those numbers add up
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across acres and everything else, and especially with corn prices where they're getting to be. So we're excited to see what happens and how it plays out and what
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really turns out here. Travis has been planting out here all morning. We're going to track this throughout the season, and we'll see what the yield
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