00:00:00 Hey guys, lane Miles here, uh, here today with Jacob Berry, our agronomist here at Miles Farms, and we've been going over, uh, post caling some, 00:00:09 some yield maps and looking at some data and just kind of going over some things that we've seen as harvest and, and kind of 00:00:15 what we think we're gonna need to go through through this winter. Another winter project that we're kind of looking at that, 00:00:20 that something that we're going to kind of go over that's not planning for maybe this coming up year, but something that we're gonna 00:00:28 start planning for the future. We're gonna say for the next five, 10 years, auto Path, auto path's coming. 00:00:33 I think there's parts of auto path that we're gonna get to use here in the very near future. Yes. Um, just as far as taking some of this equipment 00:00:40 that we've got that's 12 row 24 row, you know, 120 foot, you know, sprayers. And what auto Path's gonna do is, is design all these lines 00:00:50 to where we send out a plan, we send out an AB line, and, and as auto pass, an auto path foundry. 00:00:57 And it's gonna automatically, this is where you need to start. No matter where you start in the field. 00:01:01 This is where your lines are gonna start and it's gonna give you the most efficient way to go across the field. 00:01:05 Exactly. Really excited about that. The cool thing, correct me if I'm wrong, Jacob, the cool thing about it is within the next, 00:01:13 let's be positive about it, let's say within the next five years. Mm-Hmm. We're gonna, 00:01:17 we're gonna work towards autonomy, right? I mean, the whole world's working towards autonomy. That's kind of, that's kind of the new big word is autonomy, 00:01:25 tractors, things that can do it all by themselves, starting with auto path. 00:01:30 Yes. Uh, you know, and we're just trying to figure out the best way, the best design for, for these tractor to be able 00:01:36 to go across these fields without running into the ditch, without hitting light poles, knowing exactly where 00:01:42 that tractor's supposed to be at all times. Jacob, just, you know, real quick, just kind of gimme your opinion, what you think about, uh, 00:01:49 where we're going with it and maybe your opinion on the direction that we should go. Obviously it's gonna improve efficiency. 00:01:56 Um, it's not gonna take a guy being in the seat, which I think is very important. What I do think it's gonna do is it's gonna make him be able 00:02:04 to look at what's going on around him better, have more self-awareness of the situation, not get tired, you know, late day, Hey, hurricane's coming, 00:02:12 we gotta go another three or four hours into the night, get it done. He's not, man, I need to go home. I'm tired. 00:02:17 It's, Hey, I'm still good because I'm, I've got something else doing the work for me. And I, I'm not concentrating on driving 00:02:22 while looking at everything else. Other thing I think is gonna be helpful for us, whenever we're doing plots, it's gonna be able 00:02:27 to help us find those plots better with some other technologies that's being integrated in with John Deere, through John Deere Operations Center to 00:02:35 do a better job and make sure we get our plots in the right spot and we're not off target on anything. 00:02:39 Yep. You know, like, like we said, you know, it's, this is gonna be, this is gonna be a work in progress. I mean, this is something that, that you're not gonna get. 00:02:46 Just, you're you're it's gonna happen overnight. No, uh, you know, it's gonna take time. We're gonna have to start mapping our fields with our tk 00:02:52 that way our tractor knows exactly where the end of that field is. Detail is gonna be very important. Attention, 00:02:59 Attention detail. Yeah, that's exactly right. Detail is gonna be important. Uh, which is become a new thing for our farm in general. 00:03:07 I mean, you know, we were talking earlier looking at spreadsheets, detailed on Yes. On soil samples. So the finer we get into detail, 00:03:13 the better we are, especially these start tractor start driving themselves. You know, they're gonna need to be R tkd and and auto path 00:03:20 and it's gonna be a big deal for making these things work. Well, Having RTK on your information to where you know 00:03:26 where your boundaries are, but also know where our obstructions are in the field because of our irrigation settings, 00:03:30 because of tree lines, uh, ditches, things like that. Holes through a field, holes through the field, you know, whenever you're going through and finding your, 00:03:37 where your water lines are through the center of the field, making sure they're abiding by that, not tearing up pipe 00:03:41 and ever having to go through putting out stuff in crop. There's a lot of things that are gonna have to be 00:03:46 very fine maps and make sure you got it right and then go back and double check yourself or you're gonna have a major mess up. 00:03:53 Yep. And you don't wanna tear up a piece of equipment That's right. Or you don't wanna tear up underground That's 00:03:57 Right. Or anything else's. Well, I'm, I'm excited about it. I think, I think just, you know, working towards this, 00:04:01 I think if we can get a tractor to drive itself, like you said, and we have a guy that that's in there that's not having to worry about actually driving the 00:04:07 equipment, I think we'll be a lot more efficient and I think we'll be paying attention to a lot more things going 00:04:12 around us than just driving tractors. Exactly. 00:04:14.595 --> 00:04:15.085