John Deere See & Spray Ultimate: Targeting Weeds in a Blink of an Eye

The first thing you notice while watching John Deere’s new See & Spray Ultimate technology in action is the hiss, writes Jim Steadman at Cotton Grower. It’s a relatively quiet sound that spells a quick demise to weeds unfortunate enough to be targeted by the system.

There’s one. Then another. And another. Etcetera.

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John Deere is introducing its See & Spray Ultimate, a factory-installed system available for model year 2023 John Deere 410R, 412R, and 612R Sprayers that enables targeted spraying of non-residual herbicide on weeds among cotton, corn, and soybean plants.

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John Deere’s See & Spray Ultimate allows growers to broadcast one product while also targeting individual weeds with a non-residual spot treatment. (Photo: John Deere)

“This is a technology and product that we’ve been working on ever since the 2017 acquisition of Blue River Technology,” explains Franklin Peitz, John Deere’s Marketing Manager, Sprayers. “Blue River focuses on machine learning and camera visualization technology along with artificial intelligence to help distinguish between crop and weed. We then bolt that on to our sprayers and integrate the whole system to work as one. There are no hiccups because something is Blue River and something is John Deere. As the machine moves through the field, all of the data is flowing.”

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And flowing quickly. The sprayer features a 120-foot carbon fiber boom containing 36 cameras constantly scanning about 2,100 square feet at all times.

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