U.S. Sugar has officially announced a strategic agreement with Everglades Equipment Group, one of the nation’s leading providers of John Deere equipment and precision agriculture technology solutions.
According to certain reports, the stated partnership has been formalized with a chief focus on deploying the latest John Deere technology solutions across sugarcane harvesters and tractors used by U.S.
“Since 1963, Everglades Equipment Group has been helping Florida farmers utilize cutting-edge John Deere equipment and highly trained service,” said Mike Schlecter, CEO of Everglades Equipment Group. “One of our most trusted and loyal customers has been U.S. Sugar, which is currently utilizing our advanced technology across its farmlands, which in turn helps John Deere scale our technology solutions for other customers around the world.”
Taking a deeper view of solutions that are being used and refined across U.S. Sugar’s nearly 255,000 acres of farmland, we begin from JDLink, which effectively connects equipment to provide machine data, machine health, and work data to John Deere’s cloud-based software, Operations Center.
Next up, we have the Work Plans solution. This one is essentially designed to send field boundaries, guidance lines, and tasks for machines that, on their part, can auto-detect when entering the field.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in the availability of an Embedded Machine Tech/Efficiency Manager. The stated manager arrives on the scene bearing an ability to save fuel by controlling the transmission based on engine load.
Joining that would be an assortment of multi-section dry fertilizer applicators that conceive for operators the knowhow to use section control by row, thus chipping in to enhance control over fertilizer usage.
Rounding up highlights would be the T3rra Cutta Landforming software, which leverages drones to survey field elevations and design the desired field level control file, all for the purpose of improving GPS land leveling and water retention capabilities.
Among other things, we ought to acknowledge that the partnership further banks upon latest John Deere sugarcane harvester technology, including auto idle, auto Field Cruise, and Smart Clean to reduce fuel consumption. In case that wasn’t enough, the stated harvester’s technology also packs together base cutter height control and Floating Crop Dividers to maintain a consistent cut of the sugarcane crop.
Beyond that, The companies also took this opportunity to reveal an Autonomous Tractor Solution in the works, a solution currently understood to be at its R&D stage.
Founded in 1931, U.S. Sugar’s rise up the ranks stems from sustainably growing sugarcane, citrus, sweet corn and other winter and spring vegetables that feed American families. The company’s excellence in what it does can also be understood once you consider it farms a staggering 255,000 acres in Highlands, Glades, Hendry, Palm Beach. and Martin counties in Florida, providing 3,000 jobs throughout the given footprint.
Turning our attention towards Everglades Equipment Group, it has its stature built upon a track-record of serving a wide ranging customers, including largest agricultural producers of sugar, citrus and vegetables, individual farmers, golf courses, nurseries, commercial landscape management companies, and construction businesses, as well as large and small property owners.
“Our Company is rooted in innovation, dating back to our founder Charles Stewart Mott’s groundbreaking vision to make U.S. Sugar one of the most technologically advanced farming companies in the world,” said Ken McDuffie President & Chief Executive Officer at U.S. Sugar. “Through our work with John Deere and Everglades Equipment Group, we are continuing to push the limits of American innovation to produce food in a more economic and sustainable way. This partnership harnesses the very best precision agriculture technology currently available in American agriculture today.”
