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Fine Tune Your Auto Steer

Arlan Suderman 

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Grain Market Analyst for Farm Futures magazine & FarmFutures.com EMAW

RT @wellsnw: Video of Rootless Corn Syndrome Washington Co Iowa 2012(sound sucks at first due to wind): http://t.co/zSzatP8W
02:07:37 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

Reuters reports USDA seeking public comment on changing report release times; as such, will not change for now $ZC_F #farm
02:00:29 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

Market will be watching next week's rains when traders return Tues; Outlook goes warm & dry again after next system for Midwest $ZC_F #farm
01:29:52 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

Corn up 1-6, beans up 6-12, wheat up 15 $ZC_F $ZS_F $ZW_F #farm
01:18:54 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

LOL RT @Weydert: @ArlanFF101 my friends and I play a little game called guess when the mkt is gonna be open.too bad nobody wins
12:50:24 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

Satellite Imagery Shows the Good and the Bad for crop development - see the pics $ZC_F #farm http://t.co/4skaLdOY
12:49:03 PM May 25 from TweetDeck

Wheat sees technical buying; corn, beans see strength in deferred; corn up 1-5, beans up 7-11, wheat up 19 $ZC_F $ZS_F $ZW_F #farm
11:06:17 AM May 25 from TweetDeck

Read #Farm Futures' @CMEGroup CME Group Alters Hours…Again http://t.co/MpeDBI6n
11:03:49 AM May 25 from TweetDeck

@BLL141CBOT @farmerfuss I see great opportunities in agriculture in yrs ahead, but you're going to have to be smart/disciplined to benefit
08:51:41 PM May 24 from TweetDeck

Grains easing off early highs; corn up 6 to up 3 in Dec; beans up 2 to stdy in Nov; wht up 3 $ZC_F $ZS_F #farm
05:17:35 PM May 24 from TweetDeck

Grain prices pushing higher in early trade this PM; corn up 7 to Dec up 3, beans up 4 to Nov up 20, wheat up 3 $ZC_F $ZS_F $ZW_F #farm
05:07:32 PM May 24 from TweetDeck

Corn hit its session low just ahead of settlement; corn is currently down 23, beans up 17, wheat mxd $ZC_F $ZS_F $ZW_F #farm
01:23:04 PM May 24 from TweetDeck

Buenos Aires Grain Exchange cuts Argentine soy crop to 39.9 mmt; corn at 19.3 mmt; USDA is at 42.5 & 21.5 mmt respectively $ZC_F $ZS_F #farm
12:44:56 PM May 24 from TweetDeck

Easy to focus on exports that are just 15% of corn demand RT @Grainmonster: @ArlanFF101 Rationing domestic demand is the issue #corn
11:35:24 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

Soybean export sales to date exceed seasonal pace needed to hit USDA target by 55 mln bu & gap rapidly growing $ZS_F #farm
11:34:42 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

Soybean export sales to date now exceed USDA's target w 3 months left in the marketing year $ZS_F #farm
11:34:14 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

Corn export sales to date match seasonal pace needed to reach target, but sales are losing ground; had been ahead of pace $ZC_F #farm
11:30:32 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

corn drops on exports, but bounces back; beans, wheat rise on exports; corn up 5, beans up 20, wht up 8 $ZC_F $ZS_F $ZW_F #farm
08:32:38 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

Weekly old-crop soybean sales at unsustainable pace - over 29 mln bu $ZS_F #farm
07:33:03 AM May 24 from TweetDeck

Looking for an easier way to set a desired angle for fieldwork using your auto-steer? Doug Thompson of Atlanta, Illinois developed a spreadsheet to do so quickly and effi-ciently. The spreadsheet calculates the angle of adjustment needed, while also creating a table containing a range of angles for various field lengths and offset amounts based on your inputs.

He also added a calculation to adjust for the end-row width in the field so that the proper angle is achieved for the actual pass length. The table can be printed and taken to the field.

The 43-kilobyte spreadsheet should work with Excel 2000, 2002, 2007 or Excel XP

Do you have a spreadsheet that’s made a difference on your operation that you’d be willing to share with other readers? Drop us a line at FarmFutures@farmprogress.com with a description of the spreadsheet. We’ll pay $75 if we feature your farmer-written non-commercial program as our Spreadsheet of the Month.