WAAS satellite changes

[blackpowder]

We can't seed without guidance.
Our section control saves a lot of money in our pothole terrain. Not even sure the system would turn on without.
We run Rangepoint as WAAS no longer gave us our required reliability a while ago.
I would consider myself a bell weather customer. When I'm frustrated, the company has problems.
This year has been gawdawful for monitors to work properly and to get tech support. The most important tech in the building nowadays.
Stuck with our xcn1050 Trimble for seeding for now, but am switching all data to case connect this winter.

[WiltonRanch]

Any of you guys seed in hills? GPS is great in level to moderate terrain but I thought my Trimble wasn’t good enough for real hilly stuff but talking with neighbours who farm more than me and have subscriptions they shut it off too when seeding the bad stuff. Otherwise if I didn’t have it for spraying I don’t know how you could drag tires from a suspended boom or find foam marker anymore. God I don’t miss pig fat and propane.

[Sodbuster]

Must have some big ass hills to block out the gps, we have some good hills but have never lost gps when spraying or seeding.

[WiltonRanch]

Must have some big ass hills to block out the gps, we have some good hills but have never lost gps when spraying or seeding.

Side drift gets us. Some of the hilliest stuff in nw Sask. I’d tell you the district but I like my privacy. Lucky soil is good and heavy for most part which facilitates farming these mountains. If cows could justify themselves this stuff would be pasture but right now they grow grain.

[sawfly1]

I always thought the screwup on hills was you get more land going up and down compared to flat.

[jamesb]

FYI If any one is still struggling with GPS issues with the sat changes , Matt Yanick has some great video's on face book walking through changing settings. https://www.myprecisionag.ca/ It helped us a lot

[Guest]

https://www.myprecisionag.ca/

hey thanks james , great article!

[WiltonRanch]

I always thought the screwup on hills was you get more land going up and down compared to flat.

The extra is negligible. Our country generally has a slough at the bottom of big hills. If you can drain them to a bigger slough you lose good bottom land. So a lot of the “extra acres” comes from overlap. GPS mapping does really help especially spraying where there is already some overlap. With seeding you see your progress and the autosteer misses on knolls and side draft drives me crazy. Most run TBT carts and independent opener drills now. Few of us running slab drills and exclusively stealth openers. Only opener which handles the rocks. Did I mention we have rocks? Probably not the worst place for them but we dig enough.

[Guest]

we got the heads up from trimble on an email
SFA from raven or outback

[poorboy]

lots of acres in hills

On my hills the drills will miss 1’ per 60’ pass as that is how much more area is in the slope of the hill vs the flat lines that gps lays down.

Because those hills are not uniform you either have to have misses on the hills or overlap on the flatter areas to compensate for the extra distance it takes to farm over the hills.

They are not gps misses as has been suggested.