Brent Lytle
Appearances
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Travis? Yeah, I'm Travis Mullinger. I'm a Southwest region sales and service for TerraClear in Iowa. Brent?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Well, yeah, we're putting a 21st century spin on a very old problem. We go out there, we map your fields with a drone, we create a high resolution map, and then we can plot all the rocks on the map, show you the sizes that there are, the estimated time it will take to pick the rock, and we even will give you the path to follow to pick those rocks in that amount of time.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
The story was, Brent was out picking, was out handpicking rocks with his father out in Idaho. And he's like, we have all these tools and we don't use them to pick rocks that we have because they just don't work. But he's like, we have tractors that will drive themselves. You know, we have all this technology in agriculture. Why has not anybody put any technology towards picking rocks?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
And with his background in software, he had a great pool of people to pull from. And they're like, we can throw technology at this and make this a manageable problem.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
They came back and they said, we're failing how we're doing it now. They're like, what we've been doing is not working anymore, so they're going to be using us from now on.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
They were done picking rocks. And one thing we've had now with the mapping technology, we've had guys be able to go pick rock at night. You know, you've never been able to do that, so we're expanding that window that we can actually work now. So that's kind of been a big change for people, too.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
Yes. Yeah. We, you know, it's kind of a la carte what we can do. We can go map it and present the map to you and you can go pick. If you don't want to pick, we can come out and do the entire process for you. We just need your field boundaries and we take it from there. So we can make it really effortless to manage your rocks now.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
We've had a lot of great conversations of even farmers looking for something for their sons to do. Doing the picking and then even the flying of it is it gives them a place on the farm that they can come back and still be part of the operation. So it's opened up some more doors for these younger guys.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Cutting-Edge Ag Tech and Strong Partnership Insights
You got to have certain flow? It's all low flow hydraulics. With the TC80 here, anything above about 75 horse skid loader is pretty darn safe. So you can get in most mid frames on up.