Boundary Management with John Deere Ops Center
Johnny Verell of XtremeAg talks demonstrates how he optimizes farm management using John Deere Operations Center to create and manage accurate field boundaries. Key steps include cleaning up outdated boundaries, adding new ones based on seeding data, and merging boundaries for fields with multiple crops.
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00:00:00 Johnny Burrell Extreme Ag. I'm in the office today with Chad Zeor and you know, we're looking at operations center on some 00:00:05 of the basic things we could do at Operation Center to make our farm more efficient. So as we start looking at this process here, 00:00:10 we're just gonna kind of start building the farm out from the beginning and just see how that step goes. 00:00:15 So we came in here to our Mod Deer Operations Center camp. When you come in here, you can see all the land 00:00:21 you currently have active. You can see your equipment sitting on the map. Uh, if equipment was in the field running, you would see, 00:00:28 uh, that working status, whether it's working, transporting, idling, uh, all the machine metrics 00:00:33 and attributes of that equipment, field level, depth level, which you can also see that in this column, 00:00:38 bear under all his equipment. So today we just wanted to showcase coming in here and, uh, cleaning up land, maybe some fields we've picked up 00:00:45 and got planted, but don't have a boundary snap to it yet. So we're gonna run in here 00:00:49 and Johnny's gonna show me some fields that we need to work on a boundary. So we're gonna come in here to lay, 00:00:53 We'll go into Alexandria and just kind of see if we can clean up that boundary a little bit because, you know, one 00:00:58 of the key things about any of this type of information is having good data put in, because if you start off with good data, it's a lot easier 00:01:03 to process it throughout the rest of the year. So we're gonna come in here to Alexander and for instance, this boundary's a old one. 00:01:10 Uh, we don't need it no more. So we're gonna put in our archive list for right now. And so Johnny actually planted his farm in two 00:01:19 separate crops, corn and beans. So we're gonna come in here and add boundary from a previous operation. 00:01:25 And first thing you gotta do for, it'll let you pick a boundary and save it. So we're gonna go ahead and name this boundary 2024 corn. 00:01:33 We're gonna scroll down this list, find a corn seeding right here, 2024 seeding corn, 2024. 00:01:42 And then before you save it, it'll let you preview it, but we're gonna go ahead and save that. You can go ahead and make an edit to this boundary, 00:01:48 like clean up this corn if you want to. But since this farm is in two separate crops, we're gonna go ahead and add this second boundary from the, 00:01:56 uh, 24 soybean seeding. So once again, we're gonna go ahead and name this in 2024. Soy scroll down to that soybean seeding layer's right here, 00:02:10 seeding soybeans June 13th and on this, and Johnny told me what happened here in the middle of this. Yeah, we were planting, we were running, 00:02:17 we were setting out there running a couple of planters and it set into raining. And I guess when we started back up, you know, it, 00:02:22 we didn't finish the field, so we thought it was a separate boundary. So that's the neat thing about this process here. 00:02:27 We can go in and clean that up just with a few simple clicks and have our, 00:02:30 have our boundary back to where it needs to be. So I'm trying to get to this interior portion here. There it is. And so that's the part that was too wet 00:02:40 or something at the beginning that they did not plant. So we're gonna go ahead, just snip all of this here out. And, uh, this till I'm using here, it, 00:02:48 it just draws a polygon around any points you do not want. And you'll see once I close it, it highlights 'em all black, 00:02:55 delete 'em out, and if that's all the edits you need to make, you just click save over here. But since this farm had two separate crops, 00:03:04 you'll see in the upper left hand corner we've got two separate batteries. And so what you gotta do is merge 'em 00:03:12 and once you get 'em merged together, you can then just name this 2024 seating and save it. 00:03:24 And now you've got your full field composite boundaries other than you can look at and land. Johnny, did y'all set any new guidance track 00:03:31 in this far? Yeah, we, We did set a few new guidance tracks. We usually set north south guidance tracks or 00:03:37 Angles. So, so you can see here, you got your field details. For instance, if Johnny needed to reassign this form 00:03:43 to a different client, different farm name, you can do that here. You got your boundaries, we just worked on it 00:03:48 and you got your guidance tracks here also. It's all in there. And like I said, there's a, if we ever added a AB line we did not want to keep, 00:03:54 you can go in there and delete 'em now and it'll delete 'em throughout the whole operation center. So we like starting off 00:04:00 with basic boundaries already safe in there. A lot of times our sprayers are running the same ab line for the last 10 years, so we like having that line in there. 00:04:07 And then sometimes we want our tillage guys, we're running a vertical tillage. They already have a, a basic line saved, 00:04:12 so they all start off on the same page. But as you can see, you just, it's a pretty simple process to do and you know, 00:04:18 but one of the, one of the pros to it, you get really accurate data, really easy because the planter's going around with RTK. 00:04:24 What would you say, uh, how simple, how, how more beneficial would this make for your operators in the field? 00:04:29 Just being able to click on The field there? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, just click on it and go. 00:04:33 And you gotta look at it too. Sometimes they might not know what we're calling farms and stuff like that, but once you get this boundary put in 00:04:39 there, when they pull the tractor into that field, it automatically pops into the farm field that we're in. Right. And we're good to go from there. So same thing, 00:04:45 We got stretch. Yeah. And with section control changes in gen four, gym fives. Yep. Every, every precis at precision ag. 00:04:54 Yeah. So like just, what was he talking about there? That way we Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead and explain because from a, you know, 00:05:01 26 thirties, that was like people didn't want Right. Boundaries, so, Yep. So in, in the 00:05:05 gym four displays, uh, we can actually tell it to ignore interior exterior boundaries, but there's a lot 00:05:13 of these more advanced precision ag functions and machine sink in filter data sharing, auto track turn automation, that all key off 00:05:20 of a accurate boundary. And so having these in this system and then being able to send 'em back out 00:05:24 to all equipment they're in every display, uh, the operator just has to click on the field name, choose the guidance track that's already in there 00:05:30 and it's already called set up to do the infield data sharing machine sink, auto track turn automation. 00:05:35 Yeah. And you know, you get into the sprayer side of the exact apply. If you had the waterways already correct, 00:05:40 Put in There and just spray across 'em in the exact apply, it's gonna be shutting off and on. If you're able to plant across a waterway 00:05:46 with a planter, you can do the same thing. So yep, just having the good data, good boundaries in there really helps you on all aspects of 00:05:53 what you're gonna be farming that year. That's right. 00:05:55.625 --> 00:05:55.845
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Jackson, TN