​WHY PRECISION FARMING


Customer Benefits of Precision Farming

New Holland offers you a full range of GNSS guidance solutions available at factory or as aftermarket kits.

This allows you to answer all your customer needs on their New Holland machine but also for their other manufacturers’ machines.

In this catalogue, you will find all the information related to our aftermarket product offering, from GNSS guidance to crop input control and connectivity.

All customers regardless of their specific needs receive the following benefits from GNSS guidance:

Reduce operational costs

  • Save fuel and input costs by ensuring parallel passes when working either in straight lines, curves, pivots or on undulating ground.


Improve productivity in every condition

  • Allow planting, spraying, cultivating or harvesting in difficult weather conditions or at night.
  • Guarantee precision and accuracy even in dusty conditions.
  • Enlarge and optimise planted areas.


Increase operator’s comfort

  • Work longer hours and focus on implement work rather than steering.
  • Do the job from low skills.
  • Concentrate on the machine and the implements rather than on steering.



Environment protection

  • Reduce soil compaction which means lower evaporation rate and higher crop root penetration.
  • Optimise fuel consumption.
  • Minimise pesticides consumption.

Understand The Basics Of GNSS Guidance

GNSS Guidance is a Comfort and Productivity Investment

GNSS guidance helps farmers to enhance productivity and reduce costs. GNSS guidance solutions employ satellite signals to accurately guide the tractor or combine, even in bad weather or dusty field conditions.

Each field operation has a GNSS guidance tailored solution for the best results.

GNSS Guidance is a Matter Of Repeatability

  • The simple signal from a GNSS satellite works well with car navigation systems but is not accurate enough for precision farming operations, that require precision up to 1.5 cm.
  • Farming GNSS guidance is based on real time corrections of the GNSS signal calculated either by a central control station, a server or a movable ground radio station. It is then sent to the GNSS guidance enabled equipment.
  • GNSS guidance accuracy is calculated on pass-to-pass basis (relative accuracy measured at 15 minutes intervals). It is also calculated on a year to year basis (capacity to repeat the same rows up to a week, a month, a year later).

Three Areas of Consideration

Three areas have to be considered when building a GNSS guidance solution:

The correction signal will determine:

  • The accuracy of the GNSS receiver, from 1 meter down to 1.5 cm.
  • The repeatability of the path from one year to another.
  • The cost of use of the solution, free or subscription based.

The steering system can be:


  • Manual guidance.
  • Assisted autoguidance.
  • Integrated autoguidance.

The display and receiver grantd the system upgrades:

  • Compatible accuracy.
  • Steering system.
  • Implement monitoring and control.
  • Compatibility with other manufacturers’ machines.
  • Advanced operations capability.

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