Lamma visitors will be able to see a demonstration of new Omnia connections with machinery manufacturer platforms when visiting the Hutchinsons stand.
Omnia now connects with John Deere, Claas Connect, CNH FieldOps and FarmENGAGE, the platform for PTx and the AGCO brands, alongside links with Telus Farm Management and Dropbox. A connection with Xero accounting software is in development and due for release later in the year.
“You can send a plan or prescription straight out of Omnia to the tractor or sprayer doing the application, which saves time and is far more convenient,” says Hutchinsons’ head of digital agronomy, Lewis McKerrow.
Yield data can sync automatically from John Deere and Claas Connect, while a wide range of manual exports means growers without additional platforms can still upload files to their tractor via USB stick.
Beyond machinery, the Telus connection lets field and cropping information move between systems, so agronomists and farmers no longer need to recreate it manually.
“Poor connectivity between platforms has long been a sticking point for the industry. As farm technology captures ever more information to guide business decisions, moving data easily between systems is no longer just a nice-to-have.”
