Deere Launches See & Spray Select Technology
The See & Spray Select — the first commercially available John Deere machine factory-equipped with advanced spraying technology — was unveiled this week at Commodity Classic.
Editors Note: An earlier version of this story erroneously reported that this system evolved from technology acquired through John Deere’s acquisition of Blue River Technology.
John Deere has introduced See & Spray Select, the first commercially available John Deere machine factory-equipped with this advanced spraying technology. Farmers can use See & Spray Select, installed on a John Deere Sprayer, to minimize input costs and only spray weeds when they are detected. This technology makes it possible for farmers to use more expensive and complex tank mixes more efficiently than what they can broadcast, reducing their costs, improving their ability to control herbicide-resistant weeds at a lower cost.
See & Spray Select uses camera technology to detect color differentiation in the field. As the sprayer moves through the field, its cameras rapidly detect only green plants within fallow ground and triggers an application to those plants. According to Deere, See & Spray Select has a similar hit rate to broadcast spraying while applying 77% less herbicide on average.
“There are a lot customers in the small grain area that have fallow in their rotation, and they might go over it 2 or 3 times trying to keep the weeds from growing to preserve nutrients and soil moisture,” says Joel Basinger, Marketing Manager. “This was a product we could get out now for them and fully integrate it into our sprayers to help them with that issue.”
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This technology also makes it possible for farmers to use more expensive and complex tank mixes more efficiently than what they can achieve through a broadcast application, notes Basinger, reducing their costs and improving their ability to control herbicide-resistant weeds at a lower cost.
Built on the John Deere ExactApply foundation, a 400 or 600 Series Sprayer factory equipped with See & Spray Select enables farmers to have both a spot-spray and a broadcast machine in one integrated OEM package, says Basinger. See & Spray Select can be equipped on new MY22 and newer John Deere 400 and 600 Series Sprayers, which include the 408R, 410R, 412R, 612R and 616R.
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“Fallow ground spot-spraying is only the beginning of the John Deere See & Spray journey as we help farmers transition from field, to zone, to row, and now to individual plant spraying,” said Basinger. “John Deere continues working on future solutions that will meet additional customer needs beyond See & Spray Select. These solutions will leverage foundational See & Spray technology to provide value for both pre- and post-emerge applications in crops such as corn, soybeans and cotton.”
The installation is a combination of boom mounted cameras, ruggedized data processors, and the software. For a 120-foot boom, 36 cameras need to be installed.
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