00:00 Talking about technology that'll help you gain up to 20% productivity by sensing the crop ahead. I'm here with Russell Coffin, he's with the technology arm 00:08 of the local John Deere dealership and Johnny Rell, you know of extreme Ag. We're at Matt Miles Field Day in 00:14 Arkansas and it's really cool. This combine behind me, it looks like all of your new modern, awesome 00:18 combines, but this one's different. It's got some cameras up there and what you're telling me, Russell, 00:22 is those cameras can tell me what's happening 28 feet in front of the cutter bar and anticipate what kind 00:28 of crop I'm moving into. Thereby it can change my ground speed to make for more consistent throughput of the machine. Talk to me. 00:35 Correct. So the way that this technology is working is throughout the year we're gathering satellite imagery on the field to 00:45 have a prediction before we get to the field of what that ground speed and throughput is going to be. 00:51 Combine has a prescription, if you will, in it to go ahead and make those adjustments and give you some guidelines 00:57 before you get to the field, the cameras, however, what they are designed for is once I'm in the field, if a condition has changed, 01:05 I've had crop blow down, there's been some sort of rainstorm, whatever it may be that has changed what that throughput could potentially be. 01:14 Now the cameras take over in an active fashion to make those changes, to keep that throughput where We, I remember you demoed this technology in its infancy, 01:25 or at least in its third or second to go round on your farm. What did you discover? Yeah, 01:29 So we had a extremely rough wheat harvest this year. We had a wheat crop that was standing, started harvesting 12 inches of rain. 01:36 The wheat went down the ground, had a combine there running with this same type of technology on it, 01:40 and it was able to maintain a faster speed than what we were running with our comparable combines. Mainly just because it knew what was going on 01:47 and farmers were always reactive. When the engine starts loading up, slowing down, we pull back and then we push back again and do it again. 01:54 This takes that guesswork out and keeps just a consistent flow going in that combine. Yeah, so what's interesting is you told me, Hey, 02:00 in the old days I said, all right, you're bogging down. Slow down the speed. Hey, you know what, it's a little light. 02:05 I can look out there. It's a high patch. That was a dry year. Push forward, change your ground speed by hand, and you're like, yeah, well first off, a lot 02:13 of farmers don't hear so good and also these cabs are are quiet. You can't go based on how it sounds anymore. That's right. 02:17 Am I going back to yesterday year when I say you can just move it like this? Yeah, well it just what it seems like you're doing, 02:21 especially in tough harvesting conditions, you know, we're in Arkansas Day at Mount Miles place. Rice harvest is always tough on those guys. 02:27 It can really make a big deal if they can increase their production by 20%. 02:31 Is it true? Can we get 20% more just by, because it seems the average cynic is gonna watch it and say, I don't know man, I can hear. 02:37 I know what's thin and what's thick. I've been combining my whole life. I've been running a combine my whole life. 02:40 I'll just do it with a joystick. You say, I say no. I think we'd all agree that as bad as we hate 02:45 to agree on it, computers are smarter than we are. Our reaction time is not nearly what this can be in a predictive fashion. 02:53 If we know where I want the speed to be ahead of the time. Yep. By the time I'm there, 02:58 I'm at speed at the throughput that I want to be. My sieves have moved, my chaffer has moved. Everything is ready to go. 03:04 It's not just ground speed. Everything inside this machine, which does everything. It cuts threshes, you know, separates everything. 03:10 All that stuff has to adjust. All that has to adjust based on that ground speed to maintain the grain loss that we want, maintain the sample 03:17 that we want in the bin. So by the time I make that reaction, none of those things have changed. 03:25 You know, the big thing too is Damien, when when that combine's slugging crop in and out, in and out, you're losing efficiency of the cleaning power. 03:31 Yep. And deer wants, all combines are designed to be full loaded at all times, and that's one thing you're doing. 03:36 You're cleaning up your grain sample and efficiency going through the field. So taking that push pull out of the, the controller 03:43 or the operator or the controller outta the operator's hands, so to say, really will increase the efficiency. All Right. Ultimately it becomes autonomous. 03:49 How long until we don't need a human sitting in there at all? Well, According to deer, full autonomy and corn 03:54 and soybeans by 2030. Okay. That's only 5, 6, 7 years down the road, you know, depending on model year. 03:59 Next thing. What about the idea that it's doing it based on a camera, but that corn might look better than it 04:06 is, or it might look wor. It might be worse than it looks. Am I missing something here? That's 04:10 Where the imagery comes into play. We've monitored that crop all year long. We know that this spot right here 04:17 is the most dense vegetation in the field. We know that this spot is the least. It's Not just this camera that's doing it, it's 04:23 Tying into, it's all integrated, all of the other operation center. It's actually, you know, it's adjustments on 04:26 the go. How long Until every farm? How long until the majority of farms have this, Johnny? I would say two or three more years. 04:32 It'd be pretty much standard almost. His name is Russell Kain. He's with Ag Insight, the technology arm 04:37 of our John Deere dealership here in the Delta region of Arkansas. Johnny Rell with XT Extreme Ag. 04:41 We're coming to you from the field day at Matt Miles Farms. You know what we do? Great field days. Very informative. 04:46 A lot of great sessions today. Be sure to check out our field days. If you can't get to one 04:50 of the field days, check it out online. All this information videos you can use to help you on your farming operation@extremeag.farm.