Combines Yield Monitor which one

[acfarmer]

I would suggest the Agleader for a number of reasons It is likly the most accurate for the Gleaner combines. We have used one on N5 R6 and now a R62 and have allways been accurate to less than 1% once properly calabrated Agleader will work with ll different application rate controllers so your not limited to one companies equipment It will also drive a guidance system with navagation when you have that need. Agleader can be hooked up to manure appliction equipment to record rate and where appliction occured. You can Map fields bounderies, Soil sample and scout fields. I like it hooked to my planter to record planting data such as rate , variety, fert application. My 4 cents worth Bruce

 

[Mike]

Stay away from the Fieldstar. We have run it 2 years. They have replaced the hardware and all the software and it is still a joke. Had a tech person out and he said 10% accuracy was within tolerance. The problem is sometimes its right, sometimes its 10% high and sometimes 10% low. We find ourselves calibrating it twice a day just to keep it close. For example this fall we started cutting a field of beans that was 11-12% yielding 50-55 bushel. We were rained out for two days, came back to the same field at 14% moisture and the yield was 75-85 bushel. This was a problem we dealt with daily. Having come from an Agleader we have definately gone a step into the past. Our old Agleader was very accurate once it was set. We routinely loaded semis within 10-20 bushels. The whole Fieldstar experience has baffled me. Some of the problem is my local dealer is clueless about yield monitors. However that should be AGCO's problem, not mine. I love the R series and especially the last few R72's we have had, but my new combine will have an Agleader in it.

 

[dakota]

Can you tell how the yield sensor actually senses the amount of grain on the Agleader and the fieldstarIJ

 

[Kurt]

I have a greenstar mounted in my R72 and really enjoy it. We purchased a tractor with gps on it, so all I had to do was mount the moisture sensor and flow sensor on the clean grain elevator. Works really nice. They also give you the software so I print all of my own maps out on my computer. Is very easy to calibrate, and probably paid for itself the first year. On one circle of beans I found out that I was driving to fast, by slowing down it made an 8 bushel per acre difference. Now I just have to work on cutting short beans. Kurt

 

[Mike]

The Fieldstar uses a finger mechanism very common these days. Our old Agleader used a pressure plate in the elevator. It wasn't accurate out of the box, but after a couple days you could really dial it in.