The strip-intercropping and controlled traffic patterns leverage the guidance system investment even further than it would normally. Auto-steer is more efficient this way. |
The worst rows were adjacent to the traffic patterns, next to the tractor and combine wheels, which were rows four, five, eight and nine. The best yields were on the outside edges of both sides — rows one and 12 — in a north-south oriented field. |
With the machine doing the driving, it's repeatable. With a human doing the driving, it's not. |