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March 20082008 September ACS Newsletter

“A Pre-Harvest Checkup is very important to insure accurate collection of yield data.”
Bring the monitor into your office and power it up using the wall-mount power supply included with your monitor. Review the “Initial Calibration” sheet in the calibration section of your manual and verify that they agree with the settings in your monitor.
Make sure the memory card is operational by copying a file onto the memory card and putting it into your computer. If you haven’t already backed up last year’s data to your computer, do it now.

March 20082008 July ACS Newsletter

"Nationwide research conducted by the Precision Ag Institute, www.precisionag.com, shows that growers who have implemented multiple precision technologies are benefiting from the current price boom through better efficiency, lower input costs and higher profitability. Their use of technology to improve management and input efficiency is rapidly moving them ahead of their neighbors who are not utilizing the precision tools available to them. At today’s commodity prices corn producers are netting almost $55 per acre more, and soybean producers are netting almost $64 per acre more than prior to implementing precision technology on their farms. This is a huge advantage in today’s competitive rental and land markets......"