This is a YouTube video titled "John Deere Africa | Precision Farming | Hardu Prinsloo Testimonial" featuring a testimonial from Sari Prenzler, a farmer from the Delmas area. The content, created in June 2021, discusses the use of precision farming technology, specifically John Deere's Combine Advisor and yield mapping tools, highlighting their benefits in real-time monitoring, remote management, and improving farming efficiency and yields. The testimonial emphasizes the importance of technology in modern farming and the support from dealers and technicians.
My name is Sari Prenzler. We farm in the Delmas area. We've been using precision farming since 1998. We started using Comet Advisor about three years ago, first on the S680s and then later on in the 780s. But it makes quite a huge difference if we have more than one machine running so that you can. If you have a different driver in different machines that you can monitor it and you can manage it. So it's a very effective tool, especially if you don't harvest everything yourself. The good thing about Combine Advisor and the yield maps as well is because everything gets loaded onto the cloud. All the harvesters we had an idea because through flow monitors and those things, we had an idea of the harvest. Now through the scales that we have inside, we have actual measurements and it's in real time. So we can use it every day because we know it's accurate. We don't have to wait until the end of the year to see, okay, the yield was actually this or what? Because it's accurate and it's real time. The remote access display where you can go into the harvester and. Or actually the GS4 monitor and you can see what actually happening in the harvester at that time. So for us, it's nice to see if you have settings that you want to change. So you can change the settings from your phone. So if you're in one harvester and someone else is harvesting and another one, or you're not there or in an office or somewhere, so you can do change settings on it from your phone. But for me personally, the nice thing is that the dealers, technicians can lock onto the machine and they can help us solve problems and they can see if there is a problem and they can notify us and they don't have to come out necessarily. So that saves cost and time. And most of the time we get the problem solved without them even being here. Because we've been doing precision farming since 1998. We have yield maps as well, since 1998. So we use the yield maps in conjunction with soil analysis, with leaf analysis, and then we use it the next year for precision farming, putting down lime fertilizer seed. So the yield maps is very important for us because we use it in conjunction with all the other precision tools we have. For me, there's no other way than going precision farm. We've been doing it for a long time and we've only gone better and better. And for me, there's no other product than John Deere. All these technology comes down to one thing, and it makes life easier for us. We get real time information, we get actual information and not just things we don't think we'd know. So it makes life definitely a lot easier for us. It makes farming a lot easier because farming in itself is a difficult business. So the easier it gets through help that you get from machines and dealers and John Deere, that helps us, the easier it gets for us. So we need good technology to improve our yields, improve our businesses, so we can stay longer on the farms, so that we can make certain that we look after the world and feed the world.
