Tim Ford

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Farm4Profit Podcast · Harvest Automation - Is It Worth the Hype? · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

A full combine is a happy combine, right?

In terms of performance.

And so the predictive ground speed automation keeps it consistently full throughout that day of harvest.

And so as you get into the days, weeks, months of harvest, maybe that expert operator isn't on a hydro handle quite so much, you know?

And so they start to pull away from that hypothetical peak capacity, whereas the automation is just dead consistent, right?

Just stays up close to that capacity.

Thank you.

Happy to be here.

I'm a combine specialist.

So I help out with demos, new products, just getting things out there, getting the word out, helping educate people on how to use it, the value of it.

And then also connect back from the customer back to engineering to try and get things better over time, too.

So I came into this, I've been on the kind of marketing side of the fence for a couple of years now, but before that I worked in field testing and development for all the subsystems on Harvest Automation.

So I've been with it for a long time, testing all over the world with it, primarily with customers to get customers

you know, approval, uh, on, Hey, we're headed in the right direction, you know, because we can always, we can always come out with something.

We can always release something, but just making sure that we're meeting a customer need.

So did that, did some, uh, facilitate some UX research the last couple of years as well.

Uh, just as we put the whole, and that's user experience about putting it all together into one nice shiny package to work well.

Yeah, absolutely.

So harvest automation is kind of one big bucket.

The two primary pieces are going to be that predictive ground speed automation and harvest settings automation.

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