Ep. 69 John Deere StarFire GPS With Terry Pickett

Agriculture Technology Podcast

RDO Equipment Co.

Technology

4.2 • 48 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we speak with Terry Pickett, ISG Advanced Engineering Manager for John Deere Company. Terry has been involved with many innovative products geared around precision agriculture and GPS solutions from John Deere, including the development of the StarFire and guidance systems. To learn more about these systems, visit our website www.rdoequipment.com or John Deere's website www.deere.com. Be sure to follow RDO Equipment Co. on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn and catch our latest videos on YouTube.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. This is Tony Kramer, product specialist with RDO Equipment Company, and you are listening to the Agriculture Technology podcast.
0:09.6	Every day, there are phenomenal advancements being made in the field of agriculture technology.
0:14.1	RDO equipment is a leader in agriculture equipment and precision agriculture technology and is here with industry experts to bring the latest news and information from RDO and John Deere.
0:23.2	Thanks for joining us on the Agriculture Technology podcast.
0:31.8	Welcome back to another episode of the podcast.
0:34.1	This is episode number 69, and today we are going to be talking about Starfire GPS.
0:41.6	Before we get started, make sure to follow RDO equipment company on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
0:47.5	and catch all of our latest videos packed full of information on YouTube.
0:51.6	You can also follow me on Twitter at RDO Tony K. With that, let's get back to
0:57.7	the show. I am very excited to welcome Terry Pickett, who is the ISG Advanced Engineering Manager
1:04.8	with John Deere in Urbandale, Iowa. Thanks for joining me on the show today, Terry. To get started, I'd really like to
1:11.9	hear more about you and your background and how you got involved in this industry.
1:17.2	Thank you. I really appreciate this opportunity. I have a background starting back in my teenage
1:25.0	years and working on some of my uncle's farm, but the equipment I worked on there was nothing like when I came to John Deere.
1:30.0	It was very old equipment, and I went to school at William Duel College and got in Liberty, Missouri,
1:36.1	and got degrees in business, physics, and mathematics.
1:39.0	They went on to University of Missouri at Rala, where I received a master's degree in electronics engineering.
1:46.0	And from there I went to John Deere and joined John Deere's product engineering center's
1:52.0	electronics group in Waterloo, Iowa at the product engineering center there.
1:58.0	And since I started, I worked on initially obviously tractors and their electronics and software
2:04.0	and some of the advanced product there.
2:06.5	And then started working with a small team to do electronics design and software development
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