Using Geotrack agricultural guidance system and Agroprofile platform for agricultural machinery rental service companies

The service of renting tractors, combines, seeders and other agricultural machinery are now one of the most topical. Many small and medium-sized farms use the service of agricultural machinery rental mainly during the high season - for sowing, harvesting, or feed provision.
Service companies that provide agricultural machinery rental services are most interested in its efficient use because every additional hour or acre of work generates revenues.

What parameters can be monitored for the effective use of rented agricultural machinery

The business of renting agricultural machinery is based on maximizing its use on the one hand and reducing operating costs on the other. The main way to reduce operating costs is to control them. How many acres or hours the tractor or combine harvester was involved in work, what work was performed, whether the chases were effectively laid, what was the number of work breaks, and how many of them - let's understand how effectively the rented machinery is being used.

The availability of maximum data on the use of a rented tractor or harvester allows:

• Reduce expenses on fuel and oil
• Reduce repair costs and spare parts
• Get full control over the use of machinery for its intended purpose
• Efficiently planning the logistics of relocating machinery between customers
• Plan the next year's workload based on the usage statistics of previous seasons

How GNSS/RTK navigation and Agroprofil online platform help to efficiently use tractors, combines and agricultural machinery

The process of control over the use of agricultural machinery includes two aspects.
The first is the gathering of data on its operation, which is provided by the installation of the agricultural guidance system.
The second is the management and analysis of the gathered data, which is provided by the software.

A review of proposals on the availability of agricultural guidance systems on tractors and harvesters rented by service companies has indicated that only half of them are equipped with agricultural guidance systems or autosteering systems. At the same time, only 20% of them use online platforms or specialized software for data processing and further analysis.

Geometer International has been helping farmers to maximize the efficient use of agricultural machinery for many years. Due to the developed ecosystem, which includes reliable high-precision GNSS/RTK agricultural guidance systems with its own branded Geotrack Android parallel driving application and the Agroprofile online platform for efficient management of machinery use, it is also available to agricultural equipment rental service companies. This allows them to optimize the use of each unit of their technical fleet.

Among the most popular agricultural guidance system is  Geotrack Explorer Plus , which can function with an accuracy of 10-15 cm or 1-2 1-2 cm in RTK mode. We also offer a budget Geotrack Lite, agricultural guidance system, which is 30% cheaper but has the same high accuracy and functions.

Online platform Agroprofile is free for customets of Geotrack agricultural guidance system and has the following features:

• early planning of work seasons,
• accounting and planning of consumption of materials,
• drawing up work orders,
• work performance control,
• accounting for the use of agricultural equipment,
• control over machinery

The use of Geometer equipment for agricultural machinery rental companies will increase profit by 15-20%, which is a significant amount for this business.