I was just thinking about this today, as heads get bigger, the “dumber” the data gets. We’re making decisions based on more diluted down maps. 6 row corn head machine makes more “accurate” yield maps than 12 or 16 row.
This guy isn't old enough to talk about the history of the corn head. Old ones were over complicated & ran at 45° angle; a real nightmare in downed corn. It was common to pasture the fields for dropped ears. Most of the problems solved by early '70s, remainder fixed by controlling corn borers. At this point just selling new complications rather than fixing problems.
I was just thinking about this today, as heads get bigger, the “dumber” the data gets. We’re making decisions based on more diluted down maps. 6 row corn head machine makes more “accurate” yield maps than 12 or 16 row.
This guy isn't old enough to talk about the history of the corn head. Old ones were over complicated & ran at 45° angle; a real nightmare in downed corn. It was common to pasture the fields for dropped ears. Most of the problems solved by early '70s, remainder fixed by controlling corn borers. At this point just selling new complications rather than fixing problems.