{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-crop-is-ready-is-your-yard-ewpWRpzL","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Crop Is Ready. Is Your Yard?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/7ec91ae8-820c-4083-b04d-c719fa5ee2c7/th_e_crop_is_ready_is_your_yard_podcast_cover.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Dan Aberhart opens with the episode's central claim: a combine is only as fast as the yard behind it, and most farms have never measured where that bottleneck actually lives. He brings together three operators solving it at different price points and scales. Brennan McArthur walks through the fully automated grain-handling system he built at his Watrous yard, which can unload a legal Super B in about eight minutes and gives him live inventory from his phone. Vince Pawluski describes a lower-cost retrofit that lets one operator run multiple machines remotely, with real numbers on what an idling tractor actually costs a farm over a season. Trevor Scherman argues that even as combine automation improves, a magnetic drop pan is still the cheapest way to get the data that makes any of it trustworthy. The conversation moves through what each guest thinks will and won't get automated soon (all three agree the combine seat itself is the last one to go), how Canada's mixed-brand equipment reality differs from the US, and closes with each guest's prediction for what's coming next in ag automation."}