How do Trimble guidance systems help you?

Precision ag helps farmers improve yields by collecting data on all aspects of each plant to figure out exactly what it needs, when it needs it and how it will best survive. From planting, growing and cultivating to spreading, spraying and harvesting, precision agriculture allows farmers to monitor, measure and utilize data from beginning to end.

Precise Point Positioning (PPP) was the next big development. Our version of PPP, Trimble RTX, allows farmers the best of both worlds — RTK-level accuracy delivered via satellite, eliminating the need for base stations or sometimes unreliable radio, cell or internet signals.

The evolution of precision agriculture

Though precision agriculture started with guidance, it has now made its way to implement-level, variable rate seeding and spraying and section control. ISOBUS has also been a big development in the past few years — allowing machines of all types to interact and communicate with each other, regardless of type, color and shape.

The challenge in GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is providing customers with the greatest availability in the field. While most fields are under open sky, obstacles such as trees and gullies make it more challenging.

How do Trimble guidance systems help you?

Trimble, provide market-leading pass-to-pass value with limited overlap for the customers. With our latest and most premium correction ser Trimble solutions include both hardware and software for guidance and steering, flow and application control, water management, harvest solutions, desktop and cloud-based data management, and correction services.

Trimble’s CenterPoint RTX satellite-based correction service delivers GNSS positions repeatable to less than an inch. Combined with Trimble’s ProPoint GNSS technology, this service provides greater positioning availability, even in challenging environments such as tree lines, gullies and along contours where much of farming takes place. vice, CenterPoint RTX, ease of use is also a key benefit.

For applications where centimeter-level accuracy is not as high of a priority, such as broad acre applications, Trimble RangePoint RTX and ViewPoint RTX give additional correction service options. They hold equipment to 6-inch and 12-inch pass-to-pass accuracy — or about the width of a tire between passing swaths. Trimble also offers Trimble VRS Now, giving farmers instant access to RTK positioning services using a network of permanent, continuously operating reference stations.