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How To Optimize Your Equipment for the Season – A Virtual Clinic

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Staying at home doesn’t mean you have to stay in the dark. Get the latest information on Precision Ag technology and best practices for pre-season maintenance for your combines and windrowers at our upcoming online clinics. Learn more about each of the events below and register today to secure your spot.

Windrower Clinic

On Tuesday, May 26th at 7:30pm, Shane Stewart and Aaron Hiatt will host our virtual windrower clinic and provide all the information you need to know to set up your John Deere windrower for enhanced productivity this seed season.

Topics will include:

  • Header speed
  • Knife configuration
  • Cutterbar speeds and drum speeds
  • Header tilt and shoe height
  • Cutterbar setup for different crops
  • Water system
  • Navigating the header controls in the cab
  • Setting up the autosteer, Deere OPS center
  • And more!

Combine Clinic

On Wednesday, May 27th at 7:30pm, join Erik Hans, Carl Laux, and Josh Yoder for an hour-long session on how to choose the best configuration and set up for your John Deere combine to optimize performance before going into the field and how to make adjustments once you are in the field.

Topics will include:

  • Feeder House
  • Feed accelerator
  • Rotor—Papè threshing modules, concaves, leveling importance
  • Dyna-flow shoe, chaffer & sieve, S780 % bigger, importance of calibration, fan-slow-speed, S780 re-thresher returns material to grain pan
  • Residue management, options available
  • Pro-drive transmission
  • In-cab technology, harvest mobile, OPS center
  • Tool-kit plus videos available for various calibrations
  • And more!

Precision Ag Clinic

On Thursday, May 28th at 7:30pm, Will Pardue and Tyler Lemon will lead our session on John Deere Precision Ag technology. Learn about the latest hardware and software advancements and how you can use them to improve yield this year.

Topics will include:

  • Hard components (Gen 4 display, SF6000, Rate controller, etc.)
  • Green on Green solution
  • Technology on other brands
  • Exact-apply
  • Remote combine adjust
  • Software, OPS center, JD Link, Harvest mobile, etc.

Watch Our Clinics

You can now watch all three Papé Machinery virtual optimization clinics by visiting this link. Thank you for joining us! 

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