Steve Carlin walks through how his mixed cropping and irrigation farm in New South Wales uses John Deere's Distance Trip system to cut labor and boost irrigation efficiency. The technology automates what used to take manual work.
I'm Steve Carlin, I'm at Waverly, a.
Property 30 kilometres west of Wee Waa in the north west of New South Wales.
We run a mixed cropping operation with irrigation and dry land farming covering some 6,000 acres of developed irrigation with irrigated.
Cotton, wheat, chickpeas, Faber beans and sorw. Our connection with John Deere started decades ago with my father when he started the operation. Our tractor fleet's been green ever since and moving through into the more automated part of the system With Greenstar and.
Autosteer and everything that comes along with that.
In our irrigation system we're still using.
Siphons and rotor bucks. Rotor bucks are an essential part of irrigation and applying water on farm and our system. We require a high level of accuracy. Now a big advancement in putting in.
Rotor bucks for us was autosteer, which meant you could concentrate on what you were doing with the rotor buck itself. Since then more technology has come through from John Deere called distance trip.
We use distance trip to fully automate the rotor buck application, meaning that you can concentrate more on pure placement to.
Have no other ongoing issues with water breaking through the sides of the rotor bucks. We find that having already invested in Greenstar autosteer, it doesn't take much in terms of further investment.
It's a low cost option to add.
Distance trip to the system, which means that anyone on farm then can go and apply the rotor bucks to a paddock. We can have unskilled labour, come on.
Farm and be trained up in the use of distance trip within under an hour. It's simple.
The technology itself is a big change in how we apply those rotor bucks. It was always a job that we hated doing. It was time consuming and very hard on the concentration.
Distance trip has meant that it's become.
Far easier, user friendly and it can.
Be done all day, 10 hours to.
12 hours a day without fatigue.
The distance trip system with John Deere means that we have increased precision consistency across all the rotor bucks. It means that we can run the machine much faster. So we can have a day of.
Continuous rotor bucking at higher speeds with.
Less people involved, with higher accuracy and more consistency. Basically upgrading to distance trip is simple.
In terms of hardware. There's a couple of looms in a.
Small box application controller, simple to handle.
Carry in one hand and easy to put on. Move between machines if necessary. Find that it was simple and low.
Cost option to automate our rotor bucking system. The looms and box is easy to.
