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Schlatter's RTK Network

700,000 is a large number, that is the number of acres that Schlatter's Inc RTK Network is covering. Schlatter's Inc. Real Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS Network in the Pulaski, White, and now Boone Counties area provides users with a +/- 1” Pass to Pass Accuracy as well as a +/- 1” Year to Year Repeatability with the Trimble AutoPilot system. Schlatter’s Inc. RTK Network allows users to have the accuracy they need with a price they can afford.

Trimble is a world wide leader in the GPS Industry and has a strong reputation in Precision Agriculture with their assisted and automated steering systems. The Trimble AutoPilot Systems is fully integrated into your Tractor so that there are no motors or cables cluttering up your cab. AutoPilot systems free you to concentrate on in-field applications such as bed preparation, planting, spraying, spreading, cultivating, and even harvesting! From Strip till, no till, irrigation, or dry farm, the AutoPilot Systems will reduce driver stress and save time and money.

What's Affecting Your Yield?

It is easy to be mislead on what is truly affecting your Yield. This is a list of the top 12 items that are affecting your Yield comprised of Dr. Dave Mengel (Purdue University), Dr. Darrell Warnkey (Michigan State), Dr. Joel Davis (University of Minnesota), Rich Johnson (John Deere), Professor Frank Cole (Beltsville, MD - ASA conf.)

1. Drainage
2. Crop Variety
3. Insect / Weed problems & outbreaks
4. Crop Rotation (synergistic effects)
5. Tillage (timing & type)
6. Compaction (susceptibility by soil type)
7. pH (liming)
8. Herbicide (misapplication & drift, OM tie up & clay %)
9. Subsoil conditions (clay layer, acid, fragipans, etc.)
10. Fertility placement (broadcast, band, stratification)
11. Fertility
12. Plant Population (23,000 vs. 30,000)

Improve Your Yield!

As you can see best way to increase your Yield is to properly manage the water in your field. Schlatter's Inc. along with West Central Water Management LLC can do that for you with a complete analysis of your field using Trimble RTK GPS to collect elevation data and designing a Water Management System that will properly manage that water in your field to increase your Yield!

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Product Feature ~ EZ-Guide 500

NEW! EZ-Guide 500 Lightbar Guidance System

The world's first GPS Lightbar with color display, mapping and steering capable of one-inch accuracy

The EZ-Guide® 500 represents the latest innovation in lightbar guidance systems with a large color screen – over 300% larger than the EZ-Guide Plus or any other lightbar on the market. The AgGPS®
EZ-Guide 500 features multiple accuracy options, and data logging function to record data and transfer via USB flash drive for generating printed maps and reports

Large 7-inch color display
Dual-frequency L1/L2 receiver allows a variety of accuracy upgrades without purchasing an external receiver
Designed to provide GPS positioning and graphic display for Trimble assisted steering, auto guidance and spray rate control solutions
Offers advanced the easy-to-use guidance patterns, as well as real-time "where-applied" mapping.

Strip tillage lays groundwork for spring planting, specialist says

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – When it comes to preparing a field for planting, farmers usually fall into one of two camps: those who till it all, and those who leave it all untilled.

There is a middle ground, so to speak, between conventional tillage and no-till systems. Strip tillage is catching on across Indiana and other Corn Belt states, said Tony Vyn, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service cropping systems specialist.

"In Indiana alone, we had at least 150,000 acres of strip-till corn grown in 2003," Vyn said. "My guess is that strip-till acres are growing at the rate of 25 percent per year." Read More