John Deere Introduces Its First Add-On See & Spray Kit
Whereas See & Spray Select and See & Spray Ultimate are factory-options, for the first time, John Deere is introducing a selective spray system as an upgrade kit.
See & Spray Premium is available for John Deere model year 2018 and newer self-propelled sprayers in the U.S., which have factory-installed an ExactApply System or an ExactApply Performance Upgrade Kit and are on 15” or 20” spacings with a steel boom.
Built on the See & Spray technology, the kit uses a vision system powered by artificial intelligence to precisely apply crop protection products by spraying the weeds and not the entire field.
In milliseconds, multiple images captured by the cameras and with a machine learning model areas are diferentiated to be weed or crop. Detected weeds send a command to the John Deere ExactApply nozzle, and then the weed is sprayed.
“Farmers continue to face rising input costs,” said Jordan Lang, marketing manager for John Deere. “Once a See & Spray Premium performance upgrade kit is installed on their sprayer, farmers can cover more acres than before on a single tank – while using targeted spray – making fewer stops to fill and using less chemical. Only weeds are sprayed, so less chemical is used, making it possible to decrease input costs. When activated, See & Spray generates an as-applied map that shows exactly where product was applied in the field.”
See & Spray Premium is a single tank system (so not dual-product such as See & Spray Ultimate.)
“See & Spray Premium provides farmers who are happy with their current sprayer, or who recently traded into a sprayer, a way to take advantage of the latest John Deere technology that can help them reduce chemical use and lower their input costs,” Lang said. “See & Spray Premium makes it possible to use less herbicide and water to treat a field and greatly reduces the potential for product drift.”
Boom stability is provided by the John Deere BoomTrac Pro 2.0 so spray integrity is maintained and cameras mounted on the boom capture clear images.
See & Spray Premium generates a weed pressure map in the John Deere Operations Center.
