Ag Geek Speak
GK Technology Inc Team Members, Jodi Boe and Sarah Lovas talk about precision agriculture, agriculture mapping, agronomy and drainage.
Ag Geek Speak
14. Introducing Surface Shaping with Kelly Sharpe Pt. 2
Catch the first part of this episode here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2297340/episodes/17664422
In part two of introducing Surface Shaping, Kelly walks us through how to turn a watershed map into a buildable surface shaping plan that automatically controls a scraper. Kelly also shares the ADMS tools, soil insights, controller details, and timing tips that make smarter water movement practical and profitable.
• farmer input on outlets, trouble spots, directionality will be important
• ADMS Surface Shaping tools: build wall, cut‑fill hills, morph
• logistics of dirt sourcing and yardage
• fill percentage to counter soil settling and swell
• Surface Shaping controller needs a prescription map to run
• SD Surface release timing and ditching toggle
• RTK, slope sensors, hardware compatibility
• prep early for support and uptime
• water management ROI across acres
Good water management pays!
*At the time of recording this episode, the original plan was for release of SD Surface mid-September, but we are still doing some tests, so stay tuned for a later release!
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And now it's time for a geek speak with GK Technologies, Sarah and Jody.
Theme Music:I just can't wait to get in on the fields again. The life I love is red and potato for my friend. And I can't wait to get in the fields again. No, I can't wait to get in the fields again.
Sarah:Welcome back to A Geek Speak. And we are in part two of our conversation with the great Kelly Sharp talking about GK Technology's new product that's going to be hitting the market, surface shaping. It is a new concept. We did have an episode one of this series, episode one and episode two. And in episode one, you know, we really talked about what is surface shaping, where does it have application, and and how can we apply this into our daily farming life, construction projects, all of those sorts of things. So I'm going to encourage you to go back and check that out. And today we're going to talk a little bit about some of what's going into actually making surface shaping a reality. You know, we do need to think about the digital data a little bit different to accomplish our surface or our surface shaping. And within that, there is a definite design component that needs to be there. And once we have that design component, we need to execute that in the field. So that's what we're going to talk about a little bit about today. So let's let's think about that design component. So with surface shaping, one of the things that's new in ADMS software is we've got a new button, a new surface shaping button. So, Kelly, can you help us understand a little bit about why we have this new button? What's going on in it? This is so broad-based, and we can ask more detailed questions as we get into it. But what what are we doing in there to actually create the design for a surface shaping map?
Kelly Sharpe:I have to lead off with you had me giggling a little bit saying, oh, it's a new surface shaping button. Uh it's that we've had in there for about three years. Um and uh to to be to be open, to be open with everybody about that. Um we opened up and and put this button is sitting out there for everybody to use demo try at this point in time. But the concept of it is it's really in there as more of a it's a beta, it's a beta product. It isn't quote unquote ready for release. There's there's bugs and functions that maybe don't work exactly as planned. It's getting really close to to 100%. And when I say really close, I mean really close. Um, but uh but the end result of it is, end result of it is, is that the whole concept of it is again coming up with a plan. Again, the process looks something like do the watershed modeling on a field, see what's going on, figure out what you got going, what you got for water holding areas, things like that. And again, I'm approaching this from the surface drainage standpoint where we're just gonna do some minor reshaping, uh, get some grade, fill in some holes, and and do stuff like that. Again, in the previous episode, we talked about other things you can do with feedlot design and building pad designs and getting into uh getting into terracing and other things like that. But again, this conversation, I want to focus in on what I see the most popular thing is here and in this region coming and moving soil from a little bit of a maybe a knoll or hillside and filling in and giving some of these bowl-shaped areas some directionality for the water. But the end result is we got to start with a point. So the surface drainage part makes here's your flow patterns, here's the areas that are holding water, here's your ponding areas. Now, what we do with them. And anyone who's used or seen any of our surface drainage maps, again, the the bowl-shaped areas are really in your face. Hey, there's there's you know, six tenths of a foot of water being held back and held in this area. The items that I want to make really clear to everybody is that uh um when when you've seen the maps, sometimes you'll see spots on the maps that I call them freckles or just a bunch of little minor depressions. What those areas are a lot of times are parts of the field that are really flat. They don't have directionality.
Sarah:Can I ask uh just a clarifying question here? So you're talking, I mean, you mean you kind of made it sound like the way that you're starting is by making a surface drainage map, right? So that you get what we call in that map the flow accumulation lines and then the bowl-shaped areas, which in our maps are called depressions, correct? Okay, okay. Just clarifying that, that makes a that makes a lot of good sense. So when you're looking at that surface shaping area, those little freckle things that you're seeing in though, those are actually part of the depression layers that are in there. They're just those real minor ones.
Kelly Sharpe:And and when they get grouped together real close, it probably means that you've got a part of a field that's that's really pretty flat in most scenarios. Um, and result of it though is and the result of it though is putting this back in front of the farmer or the landowner, somebody who knows what's going on there, and realistically getting out a Sharpie marker and going, yeah, we want to drain this this way, and we want to drain this this way, and we want to fill these areas in over here, and we want directionality here. You know, we get stuck with the combine over here all the time. You know, get that stuff put down, and then we can get to the designing. On the designing side of it in the software, then we can come back and say, okay, we want to build this area up. We want to stop the water from leaving. We're gonna fill this ditch, and then the water's not gonna leave the field over here anymore. And and uh once we get all those directionalities of that, the the tools and the software, um, again, knowledge of understanding how to use all these tools, you you you say there the di this ditch is gonna disappear, we're gonna wall this up, we're gonna do this over here. When you get all said and done with it, all of a sudden that oxbow that used to be in the field isn't necessarily gone 100%. I mean, it's not like you we're we're trying to take it back. And again, if somebody wants to take it to the X extent and that oxbow now is filled in with two feet of fill to make it go back this way, great, you can do that. But realistically, from the agronomic standpoint, we just want to get those things filled in enough that water's leaving those areas. You still might see some of that shape, but you're not gonna be, you know, gouging with the header when you drive through it anymore. Um, that it's gonna have the ability to leave, leave the water will leave the field and be gone. So so the end, but the end result of what we're trying to get after is to just simply make it so all these issues that we want to address are taken care of. Again, the software tools and stuff like that. Uh I mean, we've got tools that will do cut-fill hills. It'll uh with a depressions map, and it'll basically take these hills and remove X amount of dirt from the top of it, and again, take an inch off the top of your hills and put six inches of fill into your depressions and give them directionality. Uh a button that makes every part of the field go to whatever minimum grade you want to set it to. And and again, all these buttons and tools and stuff that have been developed for anyone who's ever used our software. I like to make the point to them that we essentially have roughly six major, major editing functions in the software right now, and we've found probably a thousand or maybe even a thousand plus different things we can do with them uh in combinations and and ways of putting stuff together. But now with these, we've added another, we've added another eight to ten tools, and it it's just it's a whole lot of new ideas and ways of of putting things together. And and again, back to the the idea, new ways to use a crescent wrench.
Sarah:So you know, and in our last podcast, we kind of visited this a little about this concept just a little bit as well, but you know, you were talking about that input portion of it where you make that surface drainage map, and then you actually sit down with a farmer and and uh given the sharpie, you know, and draw like what what do you want going on here? So that I mean, really, when we talk about doing this design phase and and you've talked about the need for that input, you know, a number of different times, that that's probably the place where we really gotta hit that because you know, if we're gonna if if the farmer is gonna be working with a design expert who can create the design in the digital sense in ADMS software, that you know, whether it's me, whether it's Jody, whether it's you, Kelly, or anybody else on our team, we have to know what that farmer wants. And so that sitting down with a Sharpie and actually figuring out where stuff needs to go, where water needs to go across that landscape, that's that's a pretty important part, isn't it?
Kelly Sharpe:Absolutely. I I have yet to I have yet to find the employee to to hire or the person to go out there and that has really, really good telepathy skills. Um the mind reading, uh, the mind reading functions. We ain't got them yet. But uh again, we're trying to do that.
Sarah:He did not hire me for that. He did not hire me for that skill at all.
Kelly Sharpe:But but it's but it's a very it's a very true thing, though. I mean, you got you we've got ideas, we've got ideas of what we want to do. And if you don't vocalize what they are, it's really hard to help you do them.
Jodi:Let me ask you a question on this, Kelly, because I want to be clear to you, like, say if you're somebody that's never gotten a map to do with drainage or a watershed modeling map from GK, I want to make sure that you know that if you haven't done major work in that field, there's a good chance that we've got LiDAR data that we can use to pull in and make that map for you. And so I want to make sure that you if you're someone looking for a surface shaping map for in this instance, you don't need to bring us with like RTK data or LIDAR data for your field. There may be extenuating circumstances, but we'll help you figure that out.
Sarah:So to that point, I just have to say, if you have never tried one of our surface drainage maps, I highly suggest it. Just beware because they are very addictive for farmers. You might get one, but then before you know it, you're gonna have your whole farm done. Farmers love those. I've I have actually worked out deals with with prospect customers where I'm like, I'll make you a deal. I'll make you a map for free. If you don't use it, you can just we'll just you know, we'll go our separate ways, no big deal. If you use it, you pay me for it. I have yet to not be paid for one of those.
Jodi:Right. It's it's such a great starting point of really getting a feel for the field, right? And that's why Kelly mentioned that as you know, that's where we're gonna start. We need to know how things work on that field in the first place. But what I want to ask you, Kelly, is as someone that's coming or planning to come to you to get a map made for this, what are some things that we need to communicate with you? Um, like how do we what do you need to know from us? Like, what are you trying to extract from us and how can we better communicate that to you so that we can get a better map at the end?
Kelly Sharpe:Sure, sure. Uh obviously the the simplest one is I we need to know a field location, uh, common name, tellable acres, uh, are all things that are that that I want for basic starting information at that point. Uh at that point, then I'm gonna make the watershed, the the surface watershed as it stands today. You're gonna get a map back, and that's what Sarah was just alluding to is making the surface drainage maps as as they show in the the the latest and greatest LIDAR data. And and then at that point, then we're gonna come back and and have that conversation about now, hey, where where do we want to have outlets? What what areas are your areas of concern? You know, do we want do we want this water to run east or west, this hole that's in between these two ditches, do you want it to go east or west? Then it's just gonna get to be be that portion of it. And and if there's specific things that you're like, no, I want to get more water over here, things like that, uh again, uh the more information that we have, the more that we can help you to achieve with what what you're trying to uh trying to come up with. Uh at the end of the day, um like say just getting the field in front of us uh is is the big starting point and getting that. And after that, like say it's really just talking about outlets and trouble spots and and what parts are we wanting to are are we okay with filling in this ditch? Are we okay with getting this? Are we okay with adding a ditch over here? Uh, there may be, like I say, there may be solutions there that uh that you don't necessarily uh necessarily see. And the other last item to note is there's a lot of ditches in the in the Red River Valley that have been put in that are just too deep, and we're not going to fill them in completely, but we may be raising the raising the bottoms of them up uh because now they've been cut so low that every time the township ditch gets water in it, it runs back out into the field. There's water in the township, there's water in the field. It's it's it and again, those are things that have happened over time.
Sarah:Awesome. Thank you. So okay, so now we've had that conversation, we we've got an idea of what we want to do with the design. What are some of the fun things in the in the new been around for three years? Shaping surface shaping button in in the software. What what are some of those tools that are new and unique to the concept of surface shaping from from a mapping standpoint?
Kelly Sharpe:From the mapping standpoint. For those of you guys that are running ADMS and you jump in there, oh there's a few of them that are just really simple and simple and cool. Obviously, the build wall, there's a build wall tool for anyone who's used it. Um if you don't water want water going off of end of a field or an edge of a field, and and and we want to make sure it goes a specific way type of thing. You draw a line along and it'll put a wall on around the outer wherever you drew outside the field, it just puts an outer wall on it to stopping water from going a specific direction. Again, for those of you guys that don't use the software, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Uh, but from the next part is is the the cut fill hills tool. Uh, it's really cool. You see every depression, you see every hill, and you can click and say, put this hill into here, put this hill into here, but you also get to choose how much cut you're gonna be getting off of that. So say you got a hill that is uh an acre, hypothetically. One inch, if you said you were able to do one inch of cut, it would say over that one acre area now. I can do one inch of cut. And it won't take any more than that. It won't take it's gonna take that one inch of cut, but it'll tell you how many yards of dirt are on that to be moved now, and you got a hole to fill over here, and that hole could be you know six inches, it could be a foot deep. And it's gonna tell you, man, you need 300 yards of dirt to fill this hole. But this hill over here has 125 yards, and this hill over here has another 150 yards. Well, if I put those two hills here, I can fill that hole over here. So you get to have control of where you're grabbing your dirt from. And and uh again, from the standpoint of logistics, you know, you don't want to go get dirt from a half mile away to go fill fill this hole in. You want to get that dirt from as far or as nearby as we possibly can. Second item of note that goes with that, so many of these ditches that have been put in were put in on the 40 rod system. So every 40 rods, we're gonna put a straight line ditch running north-south, running east-west. And then because they were sitting in their cat or in their versatile and you know, gear one, two driving at 1.3 miles an hour and dumping the dirt 100 feet away from the ditch and turning and coming back in and cutting and 100 feet away from the ditch. You see it on the ditches all the time that there's a ditch that was put in, and then there's hills on each side of the ditch. And again, most common thing that I see where we put these ditches in and stuff, it would have been great if that soil would have been hauled over another 500 feet and put in between, and now we would have had a mound running it down to the ditch. But uh again, you guys that have built maps in the Red River Valley have all seen this, uh seen this happen over and over again. So, but tools, some other tools in there. There's some other tools in there that are just uh really, really interesting. With um there's a morph tool, and uh when you get towards the end of the project, it gets rid of every little pixel up down, and it gets rid of, if you will, what we call little dams in the process, and it lets you get so that the water has a way to uh exit the field without having any any dams on there. And again, it's it's a minor, if you will, finishing tool, but it's super cool because you run it and all of a sudden you're trying to run it and get flow patterns to run, and nothing's working, nothing's working, you run the morph tool, and all of a sudden everything works. And it's like super cool.
Sarah:And that's it's just getting rid of like the micro stuff in your design that's that's inhibiting the actual water from going where it's supposed to go. Almost like a smoothing tool in a in a sort of a way, except that it's just putting together, literally morphing, if you will, everything together in a smooth sort of a way.
Kelly Sharpe:Exactly. Exactly. So that the the the there's just uh has some weird names to some of the buttons, but the the morph tool is super uh is super cool. There's there's another fill percentage uh um in and that that fill percentage portion. So you get a design built and it says that over in this spot you need a foot of fill. Well, anyone who's ever been around soil and and tried to fill a hole, that you got the soil settling component of it. And and again, you can decide what ratio that is and what methods you're using for doing your filling methods. Uh, but then you can say, oh, I want to give myself 20% extra fill in that area. Uh so when you get all your plan done, you come back and run the run that tool on it, and basically it multiplies all your values on the fill side, not on the cut side, but on the fill side, it adds it by 20%.
Sarah:Okay, I want to talk about this again because I just we were talking about this yesterday when we were out in the field, and I think this fill concept for quote unquote fluffy soil is just it is so cool. Okay, I'm not I'm not making this up, but okay, we all know that soil is sand, silt, and clay, right? And and they've got different size particles. We all know that soil's got different aggregation, we all know that we end up with different pore space, different amount of air in there at different times, um, different compaction levels. And so really, this this fill concept of allowing for a little bit more fill is allowing for that difference so that when you get that settling going on, you don't end up with a pond or a depression where you were trying to fill in a depression. So you should be able to sort of like think that through, right?
Kelly Sharpe:For sure, for sure. And and making the point, would would a pile of you got a pile of sand and you dig it up and you set it back down and you dig it up and you set it back down, your your fill compaction ratio is maybe going to be 5%, maybe 10%. It will settle a little bit. You know, you put a little water to it, you put a little vibration to it and pack it down or pat tamp it down, it'll go down a little bit. But all of a sudden you take a you take a heavy Fargo clay and you go dig it up and disturb it and try to put it back into a pile again. And and again, depending on the condition it's in. Man, you you you dug up a foot deep of dirt, and now when you try to stack it up again, you got a foot and a half of dirt.
Sarah:And and that is just so cool. I don't care who you are. That's awesome.
Kelly Sharpe:But it gets really tricky from the standpoint of what methodology are you moving your dirt around by. So if you're picking it up with a scraper and setting it back down versus dragging it around with a box blade, you know, there's all kinds of different components here. You know, if you're dragging it around with a scraper, maybe you want to have a 50% fill because you got these pore spaces, big pore spaces in between there, and they aren't really getting compacted. And and uh um uh again, there's just all kinds of stuff here. And I'm gonna tell you flat out at the end of the day, do I have an answer for what that right number is for you know any one of those scenarios? No, I do not. I don't know exactly what that right number is uh for what that fill ratio percentage is going to be when you get to that point. But uh but it's gonna be it's gonna be a learning, it's gonna be a little bit of a learning thing because that same Fargo clay in a dry condition versus a wet condition could be totally different, uh totally different values.
Jodi:Yeah, and every field has a different, like you know, just bulk density in the first place, right? Yeah and then if you're using different equipment, that's gonna change how that soil works up and how that moves and how much space it takes up and how it settles. And like we were mentioning yesterday, too, right? Before and after a rain. If it's a Fargo clay and you've got clumps, um, it's gonna have a different way that it's gonna want to settle. But if it rains, those clumps look a lot different and you have a much different volume of the soil than before it was clumps. So yeah, it's gonna take experimenting, but it this gives you the control to actually calculate for that and save you some time, hopefully, of having to go back and put more fill material where um things settled out over time when we were filling stuff in the field.
Kelly:Yeah.
Kelly Sharpe:And I I realistically, I mean, I've even seen this on ditches that we cut that are oh five, less than 05 grades, but uh where you come across a headland where that bulk density is is increased because of traffic patterns and stuff like that. Uh, but but uh then we have these wonderful, you know, Slingswell clays that we have in the in the around this area, and and all of a sudden you cut this beautiful ditch when it was nice and dry out there, and then all of a sudden, all of a sudden you get just a little bit of rain on it. And why is that that ditch that was was working beautifully? I got that first little bit of rain that ran off beautifully, and the next rain came through and it's not flowing anymore. And that soil swelled more on the headland than it did out in the field. So it's it's making a it's making a dam at the end of the ditch. And you see it, you see it all the time, and people come back and say, well, you know, it looked good the first day after that first rain, but now now it uh you know it seems like it seems like, you know, did something blow in there? Did you know what happened? And it's and that's exactly what happened. And and again, it's not that it's put a foot down at the end of the ditch, but it swelled just another half inch more.
Jodi:Ah, smectitic clays, engineer's worst nightmares since ever. Ever. And and just to comment quick on like these buttons and like what they do for anybody that is curious of like wanting to use these buttons in ADMS right now. Um I'll just say it was enlightening me or it's like enlightening for me to remember that you know when we're working with like LiDAR data in ADMS and using these buttons to modify things, you know, we're we're what we're trying to do is we're trying to modify pixels. And those pixels are a data point or a number, right? So like these buttons help us change the numbers across the field in order to achieve what we want. So I don't know. I just like to remember like to remind people that what we're doing is we're modifying those numbers. And I don't know, for me that helps me simplify, you know, and it looks like there's a lot of buttons. Just remember for just doing some math here and and making changes, yeah.
Kelly Sharpe:Which probably isn't even simpler either, but and more importantly, and more importantly, Jody, is remember, remember for all you ADMS users, jump online and check out the online videos. Um, this all these surface buttons and stuff are well very, very well documented in both the user manual and also on the on the uh um ADMS online uh website too.
Jodi:So you know that's that is the nice thing about um it having been quote unquote out for three years. Um and and my I guess my question now is you know, the component you mentioned before in the first episode that to get these things done, we need to have you know the equipment and the controller to control the machine, but then we also need to have that map in the background. And so we have the software available to do it, we can make these maps. Um can you tell us a little bit more about when we might be able to, or like when we should be looking for this controller from Rust sales? And then, you know, is there an official name for the controller? And then when we might be able to get these in our tractors at home.
Kelly Sharpe:For sure. Uh a couple of a couple items go along with that, first and foremost. Uh um, before we even jump into the dates, remember the system for it to work. You go by by the system and yay, look, I bought some some hardware. The hardware really just makes the machine go up and down. We need the map to make it drive. So if you're looking at doing this, this mapping component that we're talking about is the essential component to make it do what it needs to do. Um, the the controller that we're talking about and that we're going to be finishing up with here, the controller part doesn't make the maps. It receives the map. It's no different than the verberate controller uh for your planting and seeding and fertilizing. Those controllers don't magically make a verborate map for you. You need to supply them with data. So this is much more along that concept where the ditching and tiling stuff people have bought in the past, they go out in the field, drive it, survey it, and cut a ditch. Doesn't do any of that stuff. The controller is going to need a plan to go in the background.
Sarah:And you just kind of said this, okay. But, you know, with with people who have done drainage in the past, you go out and you don't need to have a map in the back. People who have, you know, purchased surface drainage maps from us have enjoyed that product as a background map, but they haven't necessarily needed that in order to do drainage. But you will not be able to do to do surface shaping without a map. It will have to have a map because that is essentially what is controlling the equipment.
Kelly Sharpe:Yep. And it's exactly like your variable rate controllers from that standpoint. Again, they don't make the variable rate maps for you. They just read what you give them for data. So I mean it's a good parallel there that, hey, look, I got a variable rate controller. But it doesn't variable rate.
Sarah:But the only thing that's it that's different with a variable rate controller is a lot of times you can actually make that a flat rate. You can just shut off the variable rate, and then you're doing flat rate, right? There is no way to do a flat rate with this. There's no way to operate this without a map.
Kelly Sharpe:Well, tech technically, technically, technically, you could go in there and just set it to a flat grade and go drive and cut on a flat grade.
Jodi:You could just use the hydraulics with the box scraper, but yeah.
Sarah:Oh, but then you're doing land, but then you're doing um um land leveling, right? Yeah.
Kelly Sharpe:Not uh it's nothing exciting. Yeah, yeah. It's not it's not doing it's not doing, I mean, we're not doing land shaping, if you will. So I mean it would have some really basic again, you could do that, but it's really, really uh again, you're not you're not uh again, you're back to just controlling uh make making a flat grade, or you're setting it to a whatever. So again, you could do you could you could do that if that was all you wanted to do. You can you can do that part of it. But make the point if you want to do what we're really speaking about here, you need the you need the maps to make it drive. Second item that we were getting into though, we need the maps to make it drive. Once you've got that, um, we're looking at uh we're looking at releasing the product is going to be called SD Surface. And um right now our plan is we're hoping to have it released somewhere around uh uh mid-September around the big iron uh big iron time. Rust Sales has uh has a a booth in the in out at uh out at Big Iron, and uh we're hoping hoping to be releasing around Big Iron time. Uh the end result of it is is that uh it's going to be for those those people. I I don't know anything on pricing, I don't know anything on those components right now. Um but basically if you are running SD SD Ditch, um it's going to be basically an upgrade, uh, an upgrade for for SD Ditch. SD tile or SD surface has SD Surface has a ditch module built into it. So you can toggle between surface shaping and then turn off surface shaping and go back and just do regular ditching functions also.
Sarah:That that's very cool. And you know, you mentioned that we don't have pricing available, but I just want to remind our entire audience out there that good water management in a field doesn't cost, it pays.
Kelly Sharpe:Amen.
Sarah:It's okay.
Kelly Sharpe:It does, though.
Sarah:I mean, it does. And every farmer that's out there listening to this right now is laughing. It's funny because it's true.
Kelly Sharpe:Yeah, it's It's it's uh at the end of the day when you start looking at the numbers of what lost, lost, you know, revenue gains and stuff like that, it pays for itself time and time and time again. It's the it's the gift that keeps on giving.
Sarah:Amen.
Kelly Sharpe:So so um and last uh last items, last items uh for for you guys on this. The parts on when you hit it, hit the field, all of this stuff is is is RTK based, um, sold through Rust sales. The parts and components that you're gonna be needing on there, you'll be needing an RTK system. You can use their RTKs, you can buy their RTKs, you can use your existing RTK systems. Um, the the hardware and stuff that's inside the cab. Um we can use slope sensors uh if you want to control your blade left to right, if you've got the ability to do that on your equipment. Uh, there's some hardware components there. Um we talked to pretty much most of the modern tractors. Uh, you may have to add in some external valves. The guys out at Rust are gonna tell you what you need and don't need for that side of it. Uh, but realistically, this pretty much is gonna tie into any scraper, any any any blade uh type systems and and do everything that you want to do.
Sarah:So and I do think it's important to give a big shout out to Rust Sales. You know, we want to talk about like what customer uh service is. Holy buckets, those guys do a great job of taking care of customers all over the place. And so if you if you really want help getting this thing set up, getting it to work right, highly suggest you know, giving them a shout because they they're they're super awesome to work with.
Kelly Sharpe:Absolutely, absolutely. And a reminder to everybody out there too, and I'm I'm gonna say this, I don't care if you're talking about a planter, a fertilizer applicator, or a scraper setup, but if you try to get a hold of John Deere in case in the middle of the, you're sitting at the end of the field, you know, the odds of getting that technician out to your field today on, you know, May 1st when you're trying to get your planter going, you're probably gonna have to wait a little bit to get a hold of somebody or get somebody out there. Uh so when you're getting your scrapers and stuff ready here, when you're getting equipment ready to go to the field, if you wait till, if you wait till August 15th, August 20th, you're probably gonna be waiting a little while to get somebody. So I mean, right now is a really good time. Reminder to everybody, July, you know, is a really good time to go through that stuff, check out all your hardware, check stuff out, make sure it's all talking. It it really is. I mean, you may hook up to it and unhook from it, but just make sure your stuff is all up to date. Um, if you wait till you're sitting at the end of the field, again, everybody's support gets a little tough to have somebody out there when everybody waits till August 20th to go to the field.
Jodi:That's a great reminder, Kelly. And again, thank you so much for your time today sharing with us the new tool in Surface Shaping. And no, we are really we are really looking forward to this um as a company, and we think that this will really fit with what our customers are looking for and what they need. And so as you move forward with this, reach out. Um, for those of you that want to use this as a software package and makes maps for folks for when you know the controller is out later this year, give us a call. Uh, we're happy to chat about it and continue to help digitize what you want done in your fields and get it done. So, again, thanks for listening today, everybody. And remember with GK Technology, we have a map and an app for that.
Theme Music:No, I can't wait to get in the fields again.