Early adopters of See & Spray say they’ve elevated financial savings, decreased herbicides and reached ROI sooner than anticipated. Picture: RDO Gear
John Deere See & Spray makes use of AI machine studying and pc imaginative and prescient to determine weeds throughout every move exactly, writes RDO Gear’s Katy Hill at CropLife. Early adopters of See & Spray say they’ve elevated financial savings, decreased herbicides and reached ROI sooner than anticipated.
Farmers know spraying purposes can fluctuate from yr to yr and even from subject to subject relying on weed stress and a wide range of different crops and environmental components. To handle these ever-changing circumstances, John Deere and RDO Gear Co. crew members associate with farmers to deliver the See & Spray know-how into fields.
Outfitted with cameras, AI-machine studying and machine management, John Deere’s See & Spray exactly identifies, targets and sprays weeds. First launched in 2018 by John Deere and Blue River know-how, See & Spray makes use of cameras, processors and a growth to use non-residual herbicides to weeds with pinpoint accuracy inside corn, soybean and cotton fields.
“The system makes use of synthetic intelligence together with the cameras mounted alongside the growth,” stated Mark Schaffner, RDO Gear Co. regional gross sales supervisor based mostly in South Dakota. “The imaginative and prescient processing items present real-time information, and the system determines whether or not every aspect is a weed or a crop. If it spots a crop, it prompts a nozzle and sprays the weed. All of this happens inside milliseconds.”
Farmers within the Midwest and Northwest associate with crew members like Schaffner, Gannon Pudwill, an RDO precision improve product specialist, and skilled technicians to acquire in-the-field expertise with See & Spray. From yr to yr, extra farmers choose to buy a See & Spray or improve their present sprayer with a See & Spray precision improve package (PUK). Throughout only one yr, RDO elevated from seven prospects attempting See & Spray to about 60 doing See & Spray subject trials the next season. By means of these subject partnerships, farmers uncover ways in which the See & Spray know-how optimizes their operations and reduces general spraying purposes.
See & Spray? What Farmers Report
“Throughout subject trials, farmers utilizing See & Spray noticed a 60% to 70% financial savings,” Schaffner shared after a trial with Steven Swanhorst, a farmer based mostly in northeastern South Dakota.
Swanhorst shares that although the know-how sounds intimidating, it isn’t.
“It’s fairly easy and user-friendly. The vendor assist has been on the ‘A Staff’ degree. The diploma of know-how isn’t solely on the vanguard, however on the bleeding edge,” Swanhorst stated. “I wouldn’t personal a sprayer with out it.”
