Case IH · New Holland · Myanmar
THE PRECISION
FARM
From 400 acres to 10,000 — building the most advanced sugarcane operation in Southern Shan State.
Prepared for Great Foundation · by Lucas Luus, CNH Industrial
Your Vision, Today
You're not planting a farm.
You're building an enterprise.
A mill is a hungry machine that runs on a schedule. It needs a guaranteed, on-time, high-tonnage cane supply. From here on, your fields are a supply chain — the field must feed the factory.
The Challenge at Scale
The right fleet for 400 acres is the wrong fleet for 10,000.
- Your fleet today: one 125 HP tractor + thirteen 105–110 HP tractors — capable, but built for a small footprint.
- 400 → 10,000 acres is a 25× increase in area — and small-horsepower machines don't scale linearly.
- More passes, more operators, more hours, more fuel, more overlap, more human error — all multiplying against you.
- You cannot hire and hand-manage your way to 10,000 acres. You must mechanize and digitize.
The scaling trap
Area growth25×
Biggest tractor125 HP × 1
Main fleet105–110 HP × 13
Path forwardMechanize + digitize
What Is Precision Farming?
The right thing, in the right place, at the right time — automatically.
Pillar 01
GPS Auto-Steer
Machines drive themselves on centimetre-accurate lines — day and night, no overlap, no gaps.
Pillar 02
Variable Rate (VRT)
Apply fertiliser, seed and chemical by the square metre — based on what each patch of soil actually needs.
Pillar 03
Telematics
Every machine reports live — location, fuel, output, faults, operator performance — to your phone and office.
Pillar 04
Data & Mapping
Every acre measured, every season compared. Decisions made on numbers — not guesses.
Why It Matters at YOUR Scale
Precision savings are per-acre — so they compound with scale.
A 1% saving on 400 acres is a rounding error.
A 1% saving on 10,000 acres — across fuel, fertiliser, chemical, labour and yield — is a number that pays for machines.
At your scale, precision isn't a luxury. It's the only way to stay profitable, consistent, and in control of your mill's supply.
10,000
Acres, every season, every year
Great Foundation is exactly the customer precision farming was built for.
The Numbers — Industry-Proven
What precision delivers, every year.
| Input | Typical Result with GPS + Auto-Steer + VRT |
|---|
| Fertiliser | −15% to −30% |
| Pesticide / chemical | −10% to −20% |
| Fuel | −8% to −15% |
| Field overlap | up to −90% |
| Yield | up to +5% |
Now apply that across 10,000 acres, every season. The savings don't happen once — they repeat for the life of the farm. That is the machine paying you back.
The Spraying Problem
Drones were smart. Then the ground shifted.
- The Myanmar reality: the current security and military situation makes drone operation unviable and high-risk. You cannot build a 10,000-acre programme on technology that can be grounded.
- The agronomic reality: spray drones carry only 10–15 litres per load — constant refills, constant battery swaps, coverage that can't keep pace with a commercial estate.
- You need coverage you own and control — on the ground, at scale, on your schedule.
10–15 L
A drone's entire payload
There is a better answer — and nobody can ban it.
Head to Head
Spray Drone vs New Holland Guardian SP.370F
| Spray Drone | Guardian SP.370F |
|---|
| Tank capacity | 10–15 L | up to 6,057 L |
| Boom / swath | seconds of spray | up to ~41 m boom |
| Realistic output | refill / battery-bound | 20–40+ ha / hour |
| Tall, late-season cane | struggles | 193 cm crop clearance |
| Myanmar viability | restricted / risky | fully legal, ground-based |
| Control | weather & regulation dependent | you own the schedule |
One Guardian carries roughly 400× the payload of a spray drone — and answers to no flight regulation.
Recommendation #1 · Your First Machine
New Holland Guardian SP.370F
Front-boom, high-crop self-propelled sprayer
Built for tall cane, at scale
EngineFPT Cursor · 328 HP 369 HP peak
Spray tankup to 6,057 L (1,600 gal)
Boom widthup to ~41 m
Crop clearance193 cm variable
Boom positionFront operator sees the crop
PrecisionIntelliSpray · GPS · auto-steer
- Front-boom design drives into tall, late-season cane while the operator watches the boom the whole way — precision even at the end of the cycle.
- IntelliSpray variable-rate puts every drop exactly where it's needed — precision savings from day one.
- Why first: spraying is your most-repeated field operation. Mechanizing it banks savings immediately — and solves the drone problem completely.
The Harvest Bottleneck
Your mill's profit is won or lost at harvest.
- A mill runs on a schedule. Hand-cutting cannot feed a mill at 10,000-acre volumes.
- Sugar content drops every hour after cutting — slow harvest means lost sugar and lost mill margin.
- Reliable hand-cutting labour, season after season, at that scale — is not a plan you can bank on.
To protect your mill, the harvest must be fast, fresh, and mechanized.
Recommendation #2 · Feed the Mill
Case IH Austoft 8010 Sugarcane Harvester
- Industry-leading cutter, chopper and extractor — minimal cane loss, maximum clean sample.
- Already proven in Myanmar — machines from this series are harvesting here today. Low-risk, known quantity.
- Single-row 8010 (multi-row 8810 available) — matched to your row spacing.
- At 10,000 acres you will run several of these — this is the start of a fleet, not a one-off.
Engine353 HP · 6-cyl turbo
Deliversfresh cane, on schedule
Replaceshundreds of cutters
The Roadmap · Now → 2029
A staircase, not a cliff.
Phase 1 · Now
Precision Spraying
New Holland Guardian SP.370F. Solve the drone problem, start banking precision savings today.
Phase 2
Land Prep & Planting
Bring GPS auto-steer to tillage and planting as acreage grows — straight rows, zero overlap.
Phase 3
Mechanized Harvest
Case IH Austoft 8010 fleet, scaled to feed the mill with fresh cane every hour.
Phase 4 · 2029
Full Precision Estate
10,000 acres, telematics-managed from one control room — replicated across all three locations.
Why CNH · Why Us
A partner for the whole journey — not a single transaction.
- CNH Industrial — Case IH & New Holland, global leaders in sugarcane mechanization.
- Proven in Myanmar — these machines are already working on the ground here.
- Local support — parts, service, and operator training.
- As you scale to three estates, we scale with you.
2
Global brands, one partner
New Holland to spray. Case IH to harvest. One team behind both.
The Futuristic Farm · Southern Shan State, 2029
Picture it from the sky.
- 10,000 acres of cane, cut in GPS-straight lines.
- Self-propelled sprayers applying chemical by the square metre.
- A fleet of Austofts feeding a running mill — fresh cane every hour.
- Every machine, every acre, every tonne — measured, mapped, managed from one screen.
The machines exist. The method is proven.
Let's build it — starting with the sprayer.