Precision ag pioneer Al Myers is a member of the Farm Equipment Shortline Legends Hall of Fame 2024 class. It’s been almost 35 years since the Ag Leader founder introduced the groundbreaking Yield Monitor 2000. It’s hard to quantify just how much Al’s invention and career has meant to the precision ag industry, but one of his longest-tenured employees, Russ Morman, gives it a shot. 

“We've taken a single product that we introduced to the world in 1992, the first commercially successful on-the-go yield monitor and morphed that into everything that you see today in these tractors. Al had a tremendous part of that. Again, whether it be steering systems, all the on-the-go yield monitors that are on the market today, the nozzle-by-nozzle sprayer control systems that people are using, planting systems that are nearly perfectly accurate, over 10 noles an hour. All this stuff came from the competition that Al brought to the industry with that first on-the-go yield monitor, the YM 2000 in 1992.”

We’ll have an in-depth look at Al Myers’ precision ag journey in the upcoming issue of Farm Equipment magazine, arriving in your mailbox the first week of September.

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