Optimize Your Monitor Layout for Efficient Farming Operations: Tips for Avoiding Common Mistakes
In this video, Kevin Matthews offers practical advice on arranging monitors in the cab to enhance efficiency and accuracy in field operations. Kevin explains how organizing screens in a specific layout helps avoid common mistakes, This setup aims to streamline operations, reduce errors, and improve overall productivity.
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So I just wanted to give you a tip on some of the ways that we lay our monitors out in the cab. That way we're doing a good job monitoring what's going on. It's so easy to pull into the field and realize that gun, I let my master switch off. I forgot to cut my pump on so many different things that the boxes has gotta be checked. This layout that I'm fixing to show you is how I monitor and verify and set all my planters up the same, I set all three planters with the same screens, same background layers and the maps. So it really helps eliminate the possibility of making a large mistake. I hope this will help you because this always kind of a challenge to figure out exactly how to lay all these screens out. So we're sitting here, we've got our monitors set up. It's always important to set your monitors up so that you can do what they are monitor. So if you look right here on my command arm, I've got my corn rate on that map, but then I go to my extend monitor, which is a very cheap investment. At top, I got my corn in furrow, and then at the bottom I got my two by two by two on my corn set. I've also dropped my form right there, so make sure I'm in the right place. And I also have my outlets on that screen. These are all very important features that keep you from making mistakes. So if you have any questions or how to lay these screens out and manage the layout of the screens, please feel free to reach out to us. We do the same thing in our combines. We'll have one background map showing one thing and the other background map showing the yield. That way we can watch the varieties in the yield and we know our acronyms in the varieties what's going on. Sometimes we'll use it in the sprayer, but not quite as often. There. Again, if you have any questions, send it in and uh, we'll get it right back to you quickly as possible. And sometimes, you know, it is good to leave your cell phone number. We can just give you a call because sometimes it's easier just going FaceTime and walk through or laying stuff out. I do that with a lot of my guys and neighbors and friends and extreme ag members. So, um, hey y'all stay safe. I hope this little tidbit of information on these John Deere monitored layouts, uh, helps you and will help eliminate making a mistake like what I've done in the past.
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East Bend, NC