Working on difficult terrain: How FieldBee PowerGuide helps to overcome uneven fields
Working on sloped, hilly and difficult terrain fields requires precise control of the equipment. Conventional driving methods often result in misalignment, uneven soil treatment and unnecessary costs. FieldBee PowerGuide helps farmers to maintain the correct direction, reducing errors and operator stress, ensuring that every part of the field is treated efficiently.
What landscape features hinder farmers and why?
Difficult terrain creates many obstacles for farmers, making it difficult to precisely control agricultural equipment and reducing work efficiency. Without precise navigation, errors in field cultivation are inevitable, which leads to additional costs and loss of yield. Landscape features that hinder farmers:
- Slopes and hills. Working on sloping areas is complicated by the fact that the tractor can shift from the intended route, especially during ploughing or sowing. This leads to uneven seed distribution, changes in the depth of soil cultivation and increased fuel consumption due to the additional load on the equipment;
- Holes and unevenness. Unevenness in the field can disrupt the direction of movement, especially under manually control, causing gaps and overlaps during cultivating the soil or applying fertilizers. In addition, falling into holes increases deterioration of the suspension and chassis of the tractor, reducing its service life;
- Rocky areas. A field with a lot of stones poses a risk to agricultural machinery, since impacts with hard objects can damage ploughs, seeders and other implements. In addition, such areas often require bypassing or additional maneuvers, which increases operating time and fuel consumption;
- Sandy and loose soils. On soft ground, the tractor can slip, lose traction and go deeper into the soil, which increases fuel consumption and reduces the efficiency of cultivation. In such conditions, it is important to maintain a straight trajectory and a stable speed, which is difficult without precise navigation;
- Fields with curved boundaries. Processing irregularly shaped fields requires more complex maneuvers to avoid missed areas and overlaps. This is especially true during seeding and applying fertilizers, when every centimeter of the field must be used as efficiently as possible;
- Areas with variable relief. Fields with alternating hills and lowlands create different conditions for plant growth, requiring variable rates of fertilizer and water application. If the equipment does not move accurately, you can accidentally overuse resources or leave areas unprocessed, which negatively affects the yield.
To successfully work on uneven fields, it is important to minimize the impact of complex terrain, ensuring precise movement of equipment and uniform distribution of resources. Modern navigation systems, such as FieldBee PowerGuide, help farmers keep equipment on the correct trajectory, avoid slippage and excess fuel consumption, which makes processing of even the most difficult fields more efficient and economical.
FieldBee PowerGuide — a reliable solution for working in difficult fields
FieldBee farm GPS guidance systems enable farmers to maintain a precise trajectory even on difficult terrain such as slopes, hills and loose soils. The high-precision RTK receiver minimizes tractor drift, preventing gaps and overlaps during seeding, fertilizing and tilling. This helps to reduce fuel consumption, avoid overuse of resources and improve the quality of work in every part of the field.