Ehler Bros. Fertilizer, Thomasboro, IL
"Our greatest savings so far is additional product. We're finding in an 80 acre field that we're saving approximately 10 percent product with reduced overlap. Another savings is fuel – I would probably call it 5 to 10 percent. And productivity: on a good day you’re going to squeak an extra 10 to 15 percent productivity out of an operator by having the reduced stress of hands-free operation."
"The AutoCalibrate feature is very nice – we were given the opportunity to test that and it took approximately 10 to 12 minutes to fully calibrate this machine."
What about new Reflex™ Technology?
"What we find is if you get too close to a large area of trees or the buildings we might temporarily lose that signal. The Reflex allowed us to “reflex” back to either a WAAS or OmniSTAR system. We might temporarily lose a little bit of accuracy but we have zero downtime as far as assisted steering's concerned."
"We're familiar with several other precision ag products…FarmPRO is second to none."