Tim Ford

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

So our goal was, yes, we can have this approach to helping you set your combine to get a good job quality, good loss performance.

But we need your input as an operator just to let us go in the right direction, if that makes sense.

Yeah.

Yeah, really good question.

So where that fluid efficiency comes from is the consistency that predictive ground speed automation offers.

So what we find is that, you know, if you think of harvest in terms of the peak capacity of your machine in a given day.

The absolute most, if you're pushing that machine, you're going to start off, it's going to be a little wet in the morning.

It's going to start to peak up in the afternoon as things dry down, things get tougher in the afternoon, you know, or in the late afternoon, late evening as a crop shift comes in.

So there's this sort of hump, you know, in terms of the peak capacity of the machine.

And so what we find is that even really, really good operators, they may stay close to that capacity, but you get a phone call, something breaks down, right?

You got to, you know,

you don't, no one's going to stop for lunch.

Yeah.

You're not going to go to Chili's for dinner necessarily, but you have little distractions in the cab.

Uh, and so they're going to take their eye off the ball and maybe fall away from that peak capacity.

And so what automation does is 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, uh,

Maybe that expert operator isn't on the hydro handle quite so much, you know, and so they start to pull away from that hypothetical peak capacity.

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