Recent Events

Show-Me State RTK News

October 1, 2007 - Record Harvest Enterprises, Inc. and MFA, Inc. have joined forces to offer seamless Trimble RTK network services in the state of Missouri. According to Steve Cubbage... of Record Harvest and Rick Greene of MFA, their precision agriculture companies have joined together to offer a “unified” service contract under the umbrella of the CropCircleRTK Network. The two companies are coordinating their RTK base placement. MFA will be concentrating coverage primarily north of the Missouri River and Record Harvest is placing towers in counties along I-29 south of St. Joseph and the western counties south along Highway 71.

Trimble reaches RTK milestone

August 2, 2007 - In a ceremony near DeWitt, Iowa, Trimble laid claim to its dealer RTK networks now covering over 120 million acres of U.S. cropland. Kunau Implement, an Iowa Case IH... dealership was picked as the honorary Trimble dealer to help highlight this achievement. That 120 million acres is a lot of territory. Even a record corn crop is only covering 92.5 million acres. “The very idea of an RTK network has been building for the last four years as farmers found the value of sub-inch, repeatable accuracy of such high-level GPS correction,” says Matt Hesse, regional Trimble sales representative based in Omaha, NE. “However, many producers initially didn’t like the the idea of erecting their own $12,000 RTK “tower” on a fields edge. With a network its permanent and seamless. Turn your tractor on and it just works -- that’s the value of a network.”