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East Central, Nebraska | i remember when the ag leader insight came out I was completely infatuated with it. I had no money and only farmed about 100 acres but I had to have one (i did farm a pretty good chunk of ground for my dad and others but they weren't going to pay a penny for technology). Prior to that the only technology we had was a planter monitor and hiniker NH3 controller on the farm. I was in college for computers at the time and I wanted to do anything I could to bring computing into our farming operation but wasn't sure what way to make that happen, then i saw her (the insight) and my life was forever changed. Years later I am still infatuated with precision ag probably even more than I am farming now. We had the coop install that insight in our combine back the first year it came out, I cant even imagine how many times i moved that thing to 4 wheelers, and tractors for it to map really absolutely nothing. +
I cant remember if i was auto steering before or after that, I do know i was one of only 3 in the area doing so for what seemed to be quite a while. They could afford RTK and there was no way I could swing that so I would pull into a field and make the first pass with markers down on waas, then plant the rest of the field steering. I couldn't wait to get to that next field to do so again. I think i would eventually pull in and plant several passes on waas getting out to see how far i was off. that was with an EZ Guide Plus and EZ Steer. eventually bought an EZ Guide 500 and went to omnistar then I was big time.
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What was your first precision ag/variable rate project
