Breaking Assumptions

Small Changes Can Bring Big Gains

Becoming more efficient often starts with thorough analysis and a willingness to make changes — whether that means breaking through the status quo and shattering long-held assumptions or fine-tuning the little things. It’s also not just about the performance of a single piece of equipment. Every phase of crop production is an interrelated system.

In High-Efficiency Farming, that could mean simply tweaking the angle of your final tillage pass ahead of planting or revamping residue management at harvest to extract more value. For example, along with adding organic matter and improving soil tilth, crop residue returns vital nutrients — to the tune of 12 pounds of nitrogen, nine pounds of potash and four pounds of phosphate per ton of soybean stubble, according to University of Arkansas researchers.

Find Efficiencies In Every Season

Prep

Match the right tillage tool to individual field conditions. Whether deep cutting and mixing corn stover to speed the breakdown of stalks from today’s high-yielding corn hybrids or breaking up hard pan compaction layers, take a prescriptive approach matched to your soil types, residue levels and cropping program. And in the final pass ahead of planting, the Tiger-Mate^® 255 field cultivator creates a high-efficiency seedbed that sets up the 2000 series Early Riser^® planter to perfectly place each seed.
Create a High-Efficiency Seedbed
Plant

High-Efficiency Farming is much more than ground speed. It’s about planting at your speed and consistently maximizing productivity. The 2000 series Early Riser planter helps make the most of the conditions you’re dealt in any given field on any given day. The rugged, agronomically designed row unit provides excellent stability for truer travel on hillsides and around curves. A high-clearance frame and increased vertical row-unit travel accommodates rapid terrain changes without sacrificing the accurate seed depth and spacing so critical to fast, uniform emergence.
Create a High-Efficiency Seedbed

Grow

Manage the inputs you’re applying with precision, right down to the droplet or granule. Place nutrients where your crop needs them. Fast-loading, simple-maintenance Patriot® sprayers help you hit ideal treatment windows with consistent, uniform application from boom tip to boom tip and across the entire field. Improving yield potential while reducing inputs and labor - that’s High-Efficiency Farming at its best.
Harvest

Harvest more of what you grow, from grain in the tank to nutrients cycled for future crops to the data that will help you make better decisions. Gentle grain-on-grain threshing with the Axial-Flow® combine boosts grain quality and quantity. Headers help chop and size crop stubble. Out the back of the combine, the Case IH residue management system is built to handle the tough residue associated with new crop genetics. This system delivers consistency across large header widths, helping to prepare the ground for next year’s crop.

Plan

Use Advanced Farming Systems (AFS) data — historical and in-season — to plan for higher yields this year and in the years to come. Rather than work an entire field, target the appropriate tillage to areas showing likely signs of compaction. Or use variable-rate technology to apply the right nutrients at the proper rate, precisely when your growing crop needs them.

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