Earlier this summer, John Deere announced a suite of new technology rather than tractor and machine products at a press event held at the company’s European Technology Innovation Centre (ETIC) in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Launched under the umbrella of information-enabled agriculture and the new website www.MyJohn Deere.com, the products are, according to Deere, the latest practical result of its FarmSight strategy.
The operations centre within Deere’s new agricultural website is at the heart of its information system. Using an internet-based portal suited to larger farmers and contractors, it gives the farmer the potential to manage many aspects of farming operations and their fleet of machines, all from a central location.
According to Deere, the operations centre on the website allows farmers to collect data more easily, access it more readily and, most importantly, analyse it more effectively. This can be done from anywhere at any time through your entire farming cycle. You can see your data in near real-time on your computer screen, including average yield, total yield, average moisture, seeding variety and rates.
The field analyser tool allows you to compare these layers of information side by side. It allows farmers to share planting and yield data with advisers and receive variable rate seeding recommendations from advisers.
Customers can view machine and field documentation data coming from the John Deere GreenStar 2630 display in the vehicle cab through its wireless data transfer (WDT) system, which uses the mobile phone network to send the information. A SIM card and mobile phone subscription is required in the GreenStar unit.
On a combine harvester, for example, this is the system that facilitates machine and field data transfer to the customer’s www.MyJohn Deere.com portal. In the harvesting season yield data can be wirelessly sent to the portal. The data is available as soon as the combine operator finishes the field.
WDT also allows the user to transmit information to the GreenStar cab display and prepare the equipment for the next job. This includes setup data or application rate for fertilizer spreading and sowing rate maps for sprayers, spreaders and drills.
Deere says that WDT is available for farmers and contractors who operate machines equipped with JDLink telematics and a GreenStar 2630 display, including an ethernet cable and a suitable subscription. It can be activated in two ways: either automatically when the machine operator enters a new field, or when the driver activates the system to start the data flow.
At the event, Christoph Wigger, John Deere’s Region 2 vice-president for sales and marketing, was keen to stress that the company is fully committed to the policy of system openness for all makes. This is important as it ensures connectivity for all models.
While JDLink Ultimate is only for John Deere machines, JDLink Select can be retro-fitted to non-Deere tractors and machines.
Remote display access
Deere’s new remote display access (RDA) facility has also been made available through the operations centre on www.MyJohnDeere.com. This is a useful feature on many levels and is available in Ireland. Like WDT, it uses the mobile phone network for communications.
RDA enables the dealer, or farm manager, to remotely view the John Deere GreenStar 2630 display and Generation 4 CommandCentre in the cab of a tractor, combine, self-propelled sprayer or self-propelled silage harvester. It can be used to assist the operator with machine operation and setting adjustments. RDA is part of the JDLink telematics fleet management solution, available for both John Deere and non-Deere machines. JDLink Ultimate uses the machine’s integrated CAN-bus to remotely control machine functions and record key performance data. For example, JDLink reports and customer recommendations are available to analyse machine utilisation, machine settings, working hours and average engine load. This enables the dealer or farm manager to suggest that an eye should be kept on machine idle time or the increased use of automatic guidance systems, such as Deere’s AutoTrac.
The aim is to eventually adopt more fuel-efficient driving habits.
The dealer can also carry out targeted operator training, even with third parties involved such as non-Deere implements and tractors. Likewise, offsite experts, again from non-John Deere implement and tractor dealers can – with access approval – remotely view the operator’s screen for real-time troubleshooting and operator advice in the field.
At the Deere information event, the RDA facility was demonstrated on a Fendt tractor with a Rauch spreader, while fitted with Deere’s JDLink Select and GreenStar 2630 display. The CANBus-enabled spreader was controlled though the Deere display. Using Deere’s JDLink Select, the operator could request help in relation to spreader setting.
Back at the farm office, the farm manager or adviser with a knowledge of the required spreader settings could log into the GreenStar 2630 display on the Fendt tractor and view, but not change, what the tractor driver sees on the screen. A blue rim around the screen indicates that help is logged and indicates what the driver sees.
The person assisting could then advise the driver on how to operate the various functions and change settings, as required.
As the driver makes changes on screen, the person assisting can simultaneously see what the driver is doing and if the driver is navigating the screen correctly, as well as making the correct changes.
Field management solutions
Moisture levels vary from field to field and from plot to plot. John Deere Field Connect is claimed to be an intelligent solution identifying moisture differences by using field-installed probes to monitor moisture levels at various depths in the soil. The system then sends the information wirelessly to the farm computer or a mobile device, so the user can make timely irrigation decisions from any location.
With this site-specific information, Deere claims that growers can more efficiently calculate the correct irrigation inputs, resulting in energy and water savings, as well as additional yield.
Using both cellular and satellite communication networks, the system claims consistent and reliable communications from the field, even for remote areas without cellular coverage. The John Deere Field Connect web interface also includes various graphs and tools to enable a detailed analysis of soil moisture levels.
It comes with additional environmental sensors that measure air and soil temperature, wind speed, humidity, solar radiation, rainfall and leaf wetness. Growers are informed precisely what goes on in their fields, both above and below the surface.
Deere has added a slurry/manure nutrient sensing system to its management and technology portfolio. This has evolved from its silage harvester-based near infrared (NIR) sensor technology. The system was jointly developed with Kotte Landtechnik, Fliegl Agrartechnik and Vervaet BV. Manure sensing uses Deere’s NIR technology to optimise site-specific nutrient application rates.
The NIR sensor measures key ingredients of the slurry (dry matter, nitrogen, NH4, P2O5 and K2O) in real time.
Based on data from yield mapping, soil sampling, N-sensors, etc, the required application rate (target rate and/or limit rate) can be set in the John Deere GreenStar 2630 cab display prior to the application. The NIR sensor measures the constituents of the slurry and the system claims to adjust the final slurry flow to deliver the exact quantity of nutrients required.
Deere showed that if a John Deere tractor is used to tow the tanker, the forward speed of the tractor can also be controlled as part of the adjustment of the application rate. This is done by John Deere’s Tractor Implement Automation (TIA) system, which enables the application rate to be adjusted automatically to the tractor’s speed.
The operations centre on www.MyJohnDeere.com allows the farmer to manage farming operations and their fleet of machines. You need to have a John Deere GreenStar 2630 display unit fitted. The field analyser tool lets you compare these layers of information.JDLink Ultimate, for John Deere machines, allows the farmer to remotely-control machine functions.JDLink Select can be retro-fitted to non-Deere tractors and machines. John Deere Field Connect identifies field moisture differences.
Earlier this summer, John Deere announced a suite of new technology rather than tractor and machine products at a press event held at the company’s European Technology Innovation Centre (ETIC) in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Launched under the umbrella of information-enabled agriculture and the new website www.MyJohn Deere.com, the products are, according to Deere, the latest practical result of its FarmSight strategy.
The operations centre within Deere’s new agricultural website is at the heart of its information system. Using an internet-based portal suited to larger farmers and contractors, it gives the farmer the potential to manage many aspects of farming operations and their fleet of machines, all from a central location.
According to Deere, the operations centre on the website allows farmers to collect data more easily, access it more readily and, most importantly, analyse it more effectively. This can be done from anywhere at any time through your entire farming cycle. You can see your data in near real-time on your computer screen, including average yield, total yield, average moisture, seeding variety and rates.
The field analyser tool allows you to compare these layers of information side by side. It allows farmers to share planting and yield data with advisers and receive variable rate seeding recommendations from advisers.
Customers can view machine and field documentation data coming from the John Deere GreenStar 2630 display in the vehicle cab through its wireless data transfer (WDT) system, which uses the mobile phone network to send the information. A SIM card and mobile phone subscription is required in the GreenStar unit.
On a combine harvester, for example, this is the system that facilitates machine and field data transfer to the customer’s www.MyJohn Deere.com portal. In the harvesting season yield data can be wirelessly sent to the portal. The data is available as soon as the combine operator finishes the field.
WDT also allows the user to transmit information to the GreenStar cab display and prepare the equipment for the next job. This includes setup data or application rate for fertilizer spreading and sowing rate maps for sprayers, spreaders and drills.
Deere says that WDT is available for farmers and contractors who operate machines equipped with JDLink telematics and a GreenStar 2630 display, including an ethernet cable and a suitable subscription. It can be activated in two ways: either automatically when the machine operator enters a new field, or when the driver activates the system to start the data flow.
At the event, Christoph Wigger, John Deere’s Region 2 vice-president for sales and marketing, was keen to stress that the company is fully committed to the policy of system openness for all makes. This is important as it ensures connectivity for all models.
While JDLink Ultimate is only for John Deere machines, JDLink Select can be retro-fitted to non-Deere tractors and machines.
Remote display access
Deere’s new remote display access (RDA) facility has also been made available through the operations centre on www.MyJohnDeere.com. This is a useful feature on many levels and is available in Ireland. Like WDT, it uses the mobile phone network for communications.
RDA enables the dealer, or farm manager, to remotely view the John Deere GreenStar 2630 display and Generation 4 CommandCentre in the cab of a tractor, combine, self-propelled sprayer or self-propelled silage harvester. It can be used to assist the operator with machine operation and setting adjustments. RDA is part of the JDLink telematics fleet management solution, available for both John Deere and non-Deere machines. JDLink Ultimate uses the machine’s integrated CAN-bus to remotely control machine functions and record key performance data. For example, JDLink reports and customer recommendations are available to analyse machine utilisation, machine settings, working hours and average engine load. This enables the dealer or farm manager to suggest that an eye should be kept on machine idle time or the increased use of automatic guidance systems, such as Deere’s AutoTrac.
The aim is to eventually adopt more fuel-efficient driving habits.
The dealer can also carry out targeted operator training, even with third parties involved such as non-Deere implements and tractors. Likewise, offsite experts, again from non-John Deere implement and tractor dealers can – with access approval – remotely view the operator’s screen for real-time troubleshooting and operator advice in the field.
At the Deere information event, the RDA facility was demonstrated on a Fendt tractor with a Rauch spreader, while fitted with Deere’s JDLink Select and GreenStar 2630 display. The CANBus-enabled spreader was controlled though the Deere display. Using Deere’s JDLink Select, the operator could request help in relation to spreader setting.
Back at the farm office, the farm manager or adviser with a knowledge of the required spreader settings could log into the GreenStar 2630 display on the Fendt tractor and view, but not change, what the tractor driver sees on the screen. A blue rim around the screen indicates that help is logged and indicates what the driver sees.
The person assisting could then advise the driver on how to operate the various functions and change settings, as required.
As the driver makes changes on screen, the person assisting can simultaneously see what the driver is doing and if the driver is navigating the screen correctly, as well as making the correct changes.
Field management solutions
Moisture levels vary from field to field and from plot to plot. John Deere Field Connect is claimed to be an intelligent solution identifying moisture differences by using field-installed probes to monitor moisture levels at various depths in the soil. The system then sends the information wirelessly to the farm computer or a mobile device, so the user can make timely irrigation decisions from any location.
With this site-specific information, Deere claims that growers can more efficiently calculate the correct irrigation inputs, resulting in energy and water savings, as well as additional yield.
Using both cellular and satellite communication networks, the system claims consistent and reliable communications from the field, even for remote areas without cellular coverage. The John Deere Field Connect web interface also includes various graphs and tools to enable a detailed analysis of soil moisture levels.
It comes with additional environmental sensors that measure air and soil temperature, wind speed, humidity, solar radiation, rainfall and leaf wetness. Growers are informed precisely what goes on in their fields, both above and below the surface.
Deere has added a slurry/manure nutrient sensing system to its management and technology portfolio. This has evolved from its silage harvester-based near infrared (NIR) sensor technology. The system was jointly developed with Kotte Landtechnik, Fliegl Agrartechnik and Vervaet BV. Manure sensing uses Deere’s NIR technology to optimise site-specific nutrient application rates.
The NIR sensor measures key ingredients of the slurry (dry matter, nitrogen, NH4, P2O5 and K2O) in real time.
Based on data from yield mapping, soil sampling, N-sensors, etc, the required application rate (target rate and/or limit rate) can be set in the John Deere GreenStar 2630 cab display prior to the application. The NIR sensor measures the constituents of the slurry and the system claims to adjust the final slurry flow to deliver the exact quantity of nutrients required.
Deere showed that if a John Deere tractor is used to tow the tanker, the forward speed of the tractor can also be controlled as part of the adjustment of the application rate. This is done by John Deere’s Tractor Implement Automation (TIA) system, which enables the application rate to be adjusted automatically to the tractor’s speed.
The operations centre on www.MyJohnDeere.com allows the farmer to manage farming operations and their fleet of machines. You need to have a John Deere GreenStar 2630 display unit fitted. The field analyser tool lets you compare these layers of information.JDLink Ultimate, for John Deere machines, allows the farmer to remotely-control machine functions.JDLink Select can be retro-fitted to non-Deere tractors and machines. John Deere Field Connect identifies field moisture differences. 
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