Farming Video | Matt Miles on Combines That Practically Think for Themselves

11 Dec 252m 42s

Matt Miles didn’t exactly jump on board when was first told him his tractor might start texting. But now? He’s all in. In this conversation with Chris Miller from AgUp, Matt shares how tools like the John Deere Operations Center and the new S780 and S800 combines are changing how they farm—from preloading field data to real-time adjustments based on weather and crop conditions.

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00:00:00 So today I have Chris Miller in here and he's the integrated solutions manager for Ag Up, which is a dealership we use. 00:00:05 Uh, you know, him and his father-in-law, him and his father-in-law have, so operation Center's been a big deal to us now. 00:00:12 It's really been a big deal deal to us the last four or five years, more so than before, especially to me. 'cause I was kind of absolutely against 00:00:19 this when it first come out. When, when your father-in-law said, you know, your tractor's gonna be able to text you, I'm like, 00:00:25 last thing I wanna text me is a tractor. You know? And today I'm, I'm looking for that. Uh, your records, everything we do, Sherry's job, 00:00:33 it's all made so much easier biopsy center. And now with this new S seven 800, combine the technology coming with this combine, 00:00:41 y'all are actually going in there and, and preloading this thing, this dude sitting over there already knowing 00:00:47 what varieties in there, what the weather's been like. And I want you to explain that 'cause this is something really cool that, 00:00:54 that I didn't realize was going on. Right? So once we gather the information from your planting data, or if we make work order, uh, work plans 00:01:02 for your planting data, we take it, we make other work plans and we send that data to your machines on each one. 00:01:09 So we can get, uh, gather satellite views for each field. Uh, that helps our cameras in case they go to fallback mode, 00:01:17 they'll go into the, uh, satellite imagery on the combines. And then the combines already know when you pull in the 00:01:23 field, which field they have, the variety locator, everything's already there and pre-planned for that machine pretty much when, when, 00:01:30 when that machine goes to the field. So this combine's going to field a and when he gets there, he already knows the variety 00:01:38 and he knows the weather because he is had the satellite imagery. So if he's looking at a lot of biomass on the lower end, not 00:01:44 as much on the upper end, something happens with the catalyst, whether it's dust or whatever, he's, he's already learned that field 00:01:51 through the year and what it's gonna do to automatically adjust That's correct to that field. That's correct. That, 00:01:56 That blows my mind that it, that it's gotten to that point. And Then we will take that harvest data that we have. 00:02:02 It's so specific now we can, uh, re rate your planning population to lower ends, higher ends, where you and I have spoke about that 00:02:11 before on different things and it's gathering a lot of good information. And we'll be able to take that 00:02:16 and overlay it to our later model, the S seven 80, and we can see how our grain losses were compared for to the seven 80, to the new S seven, 00:02:26 eight hundreds that you're run on this year. Got you. You start figuring less grain loss, less time, less fatigue on the driver. 00:02:32 There's a lot of things going on to, uh, 00:02:34.865 --> 00:02:36.325