SST Vision eNews - September 2008

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September 2008

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Next Summit Release Includes New Yield Reports and More
In the coming weeks, a new release of the Summit suite of software will be available. In it, you will find many exciting features, including new Summit and FarmRite yield reports, cost group additions, overall speed enhancements, the ability to import as-applied data, and much more.

New Yield Report Examples

Standard Yield Map

Yield by Hybrid/Variety with side-by-side map.

Yield by Soil Type with side-by-side map.

Yield by Crop Protection Treatment with side-by-side map.

All New Functionality

New Yield Reports at the Field Level

Yield by Soil Type
Yield by Hybrid/Variety
Yield by Crop Protection Application
Yield by Fertilizer Treatment

Cost Group Additions

Operational (Equipment) Costs
Fixed Costs
Service Costs

Faster Loading Times via New and Improved Map Object

New Yield Data Imports

Case Voyager I and II yield data imports are now available

Server-Side Hardware Upgrade

We have upgraded our server hardware and are moving from Oracle 10G to 11G which will result in approximately a 6 fold increase in FarmRite data processing capacity.

Importing As-Applied Data

Planting, Spraying, Fertilzer, Etc.
John Deere Greenstar
AgLeader Insight
Case IH Pro600

New FarmRite Yield Reports

Normalized Yield
Yield Stability
Management Units

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Training Sessions Available
SST offers comprehensive, hands-on training seminars for all of our software products and services at our Stillwater, Oklahoma headquarters as well as at the Prairie State Technology Center in Champaign, IL. Also offered are online training sessions. Call 1-888-377-5334 to schedule your training session in Stillwater, OK. Call 217-840-3056 to register for training in Champaign, IL.

Training in Stillwater, OK	Training in Champaign, IL
October 20-24	September 23-26 (Summit)
November 10-14	September 30 - October 2 (SSToolbox)
December 8-12

For more SST Training information visit: www.sstsoftware.com/training.htm

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Paul Schrimpf's Look at the Prairie State Technology Center
As he states in the write-up below, Paul Schrimpf, group editor of Meister Media, stopped by the technology center in late August to see what we were up to. Read his comments below and be sure to check out the new PrecisionAg Special Reports which will include a new article on the technology center.

	My Visit to the Prairie State Technology Center (by Paul Schrimpf - August 22, 2008) In last week’s enews I ran an item about a new precision ag technology training facility, the Prairie State Technology Center, just outside Champaign, IL. Since I was at the Midwest Ag Industries Expo less than an hour away in Bloomington, I decided to make a side trip and see what these folks are up to. I sat down with the two guys that have been responsible for driving the project thus far, Jeremy Wilson of the crop consulting company CropIMS, and John Fishel, director of operations for the technology sales company PrecisionAg Equipment.

I was pretty impressed … these folks are truly dedicated to education on precision technology, and have basically turned an abandoned seed research outpost into a cool training facility in about five months’ time. The facility is being used by precision companies SST and AutoFarm, which have provided assistance and support of technology at the facility and who are using it for training their dealers and growers. What’s nice is the facility allows for classroom training using actual equipment and software the trainees will be using in the field. After an hour of basic training, the trainees are dispatched to the field in fully equipped ATVs to gather data. They then return to the indoor training room to learn how to work with the data. I’m not aware of any other facility like this providing training on precision technology … but if you’re out there and doing it, I would love to hear from you – and about you. You can send me a private message by clicking on this email address link, or post in the blog below. To read the original article, please visit PrecisionAg.com by clicking here To learn more about the Prairie State Technology Center, click here

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