FarmPRO™ has been honored with an AE50 Award for innovations that improve agriculture production in the June 2009 issue of ASABE's Resource magazine.
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) AE50 Awards highlight the year’s most innovative product-engineering designs in the areas of agricultural, food, and biological systems. An expert panel of engineers selects approximately 50 products for recognition and rank those selected in highest in innovation, significant engineering advancement, and impact on the market served. The AE50 guidelines require submitted products to embody the application of new technology or the innovative application of an older technology, and must be new to the whole industry, not just to an individual company.
The FarmPRO™ GPS Steering and Application Control System is the result of a collaborative product development effort between AutoFarm and Raven Industries. FarmPRO combines AutoFarm’s sub-inch accurate RTK AutoSteer with Raven’s Viper Pro state-ofthe-art display and control system, thereby providing a feature-rich steering and application control system via a single large screen display. FarmPRO™ offers: WAAS to RTK steering accuracy options, including the ability to run on OmniSTAR HP/XP; as-applied maps on the go; variable rate control up to five products; automatic boom height and section control; 26.4 cm (10.4 in.) color touch-screen display; Windows XP operating system; Shape File Format for export to back office software; data transfer via USB Key; auto calibration of steering and application functions; AutoFarm’s Reflex technology; plus an extensive list of vehicle install kits for tractors, sprayers, and combines, including articulated tractors.
Download ASABE's Resource Magazine June 2009 Engineering and Technology for a Sustainable World to read about all AE50 winners.