Michael Porter

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Farm4Profit Podcast · Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements · 14 Oct 2024 podcast

So what that means is it has all the harnesses and lighting packages and an implement mask for Starfire to enable autonomy when paired with autonomous tractor. And so We're just kind of taking that next step and making it even easier for our customers to adopt it when they're ready. If they're not ready, these are still things that provide a ton of value for those customers.

But then if they decide that I really need an autonomous tractor to help me get through my fall tillage or whatever it may be, it's as simple as hooking it up to their autonomous tractor and away they go.

Yep. Tractors don't go tractoring. That's the same thing we always say there. We call it our tech stack, and we're – We're slowly, you know, customers are adopting this technology because they realize it makes a huge impact to their business, makes it easier, makes them more efficient, especially with all the things with labor shortages and teaching, getting everyone up to speed on this tech.

Yeah, absolutely. Like you said, starting with guidance. And now we don't really want or need the tractor to be on that guidance line. We care about where that implement is, right? Planter, tillage. And so we're taking it to the next step is how can we, you know, some of that low-hanging fruit, to your point, maybe we've addressed those, right, with auto track and all that.

Now it's how exact can we get some of these things. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Check one. Check one.

That's exciting.

I think one of the things that he's, you know, that is absolutely a tool for tillage and our autonomous tillage moving forward. I think we're going to see more customers that are going to embrace that technology because with our autonomous tillage and all this new tech, we're going to need those boundaries. And the best way to get that done is with our new Gaylor lineup.

So working on it, working on it. I think there's a lot of opportunity in the future, you know, especially with autonomous tractor. I think customers have got to figure out ways to get those gators around with them as they're moving them around. So I think we've got some opportunities to collaborate.

Yeah, no, great question. So, you know, we have a wide range. So to hopefully answer your future question, we have the right toolage tool and the right width for whatever tractor you have. So we have lots of options. With these new tools specifically, our MT series, we start as narrow, if you want to call that, as our MT5 or a five shank, 30-inch wide tool. Okay.

We go all the way up to the biggest, which is our MT11. And basically for every shank that we're talking about on that number, 50 to 60 horsepower is roughly the right number depending on soil conditions and how deep you're going to go. So, again, if you have a... A five shank tool, a 250 horsepower tractor would be about right to be able to pull that.

And then all the way up to our MT-11, we'll start talking about those high 500s to pull some of those wider ones.

Yeah, absolutely. So this MT series for inline ripper, one of the main key takeaways that we heard from customers is we want to make sure that this tool holds up. We're not having to stop in the middle of the year to replace wear parts. We want this to go longer. So that tool is actually twice the lifespan on our wear shins that our previous inline rippers had.

So if a customer was getting two seasons out of the last one before they're replacing versions, this one's going to go four. But also with that is, again, the adoption of some of the technology like TruSet. So again, that customer, maybe with a previous inline ripper, they weren't exactly sure how deep they were always going. Maybe they were varying that as they go through the field.

With this, they're going to be confident that they're holding whatever, 12, 13 inches deep at all times.

And, again, that makes a consistent tillage pass, which means they're going to have consistent yield across that field, allow water to permeate where it needs to go.

Yeah. So we can talk, I guess, on the tractor side. Obviously you talked about balancing the machine, making sure we have those weight splits right, because without the proper weight splits, you're being a lot really inefficient, right? And so with the new high horsepower, for example, you'll notice we move things like the fuel tank into the middle of the tractor versus the back, right?

So previously, as you filled that tank up, you had more weight on the back. As you got lower on fuel, more of that weight shifted to the front. Throughout the whole day, your weight splits were changing and traction and some of that was changing and you were losing efficiency.

So we're thinking about those things when we're balancing these tractors and trying to move the fuel tank to the middle, keep them as perfectly weighted up as we need to. And then we're also looking at what application are we doing and what do we need for ballast? So we're always looking at that.

On the tillage side, I'd say where we're taking this is, okay, what's my outcome that I'm looking for and how deep do I have to go? And if I don't, I can go up a little bit higher, make sure that TruSet's maintaining that depth, and I'll be able to use less fuel use less energy and go faster across that field and get more done.

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