Bushel Plus Ltd., a world chief in harvest optimization options, proclaims a strategic partnership with John Deere, making the Bushel Plus SmartPan System obtainable to U.S. and Canadian farmers by way of John Deere’s North American seller community.
This collaboration brings collectively Bushel Plus’s confirmed drop-pan measurement system and John Deere’s superior Harvest Settings Automation expertise – giving farmers exact knowledge to attenuate harvest loss, optimize mix efficiency, and improve profitability.
“John Deere and Bushel Plus share a dedication to innovation and farmer success,” mentioned Ryan Krogh, World Mix and FEE Enterprise Supervisor at John Deere. “Our choice to companion was pushed by aligned values – each firms prioritize options that empower growers to maximise effectivity and profitability. This partnership is a crucial step for us to present our prospects entry and coaching to make use of the SmartPan System together with the Harvest Settings Automation expertise, giving producers the instruments they should scale back harvest losses and make knowledge‑pushed choices with confidence.”
SmartPan System: The Floor-Fact Layer that Enhances Automation
John Deere’s Harvest Settings Automation mechanically adjusts key mix parameters – together with rotor velocity, fan velocity, concave clearance, and sieve and chaffer settings – in actual time to take care of operator-defined limits for grain loss, damaged grain, and international materials.
The Bushel Plus SmartPan System works in tandem with John Deere’s Harvest Settings Automation to optimize effectivity throughout harvesting. The SmartPan System supplies the bottom reality knowledge for the loss goal quantity calibration throughout the Harvest Settings Automation display. By delivering dependable measurements, the SmartPan System empowers operators to fine-tune harvest settings, considerably bettering total effectivity and lowering grain loss.
By bodily accumulating and calculating true bushels-per-acre losses, the SmartPan System supplies farmers with the real-world verification to calibrate and validate their automated settings. This ensures that the mix’s loss limits and adjustment methods align with precise discipline outcomes.
Farmers can drop the pan at any level throughout harvest, examine SmartPan outcomes to their John Deere G5Plus show, and regulate machine settings accordingly. Harvest Settings Automation mechanically adjusts settings throughout altering crop and discipline circumstances to maximise productiveness whereas retaining losses beneath the operator-defined loss restrict.
Broad Entry By means of Deere Sellers
Below this new settlement, John Deere sellers throughout the U.S. and Canada will likely be approved to promote and assist the SmartPan System, giving farmers streamlined entry by way of the identical trusted seller community they depend on for mix gross sales, service, and expertise integration.
“We’re excited to companion with John Deere, marking a significant milestone in our development and world attain,” says Marcel Kringe, founder and CEO of Bushel Plus. “John Deere’s dedication to innovation, because the world’s largest producer of agricultural tools, aligns completely with our mission to ship market-leading harvest optimization options and expertise. This milestone showcases our staff’s world efforts and the belief farmers place in our expertise. The constructive suggestions we obtain—exhibiting that our options ship actual worth and profitability—is really humbling. With OEM endorsement, the phrase ‘you may’t handle what you don’t measure’ reaches an entire new stage.”
John Deere’s dealer-led distribution ensures broad entry, well timed assist, and seamless integration of the Bushel Plus SmartPan System with its present mix expertise. In 2026, Bushel Plus and John Deere will collaborate on joint coaching classes, in-field demos, and academic occasions to assist operators perceive how the SmartPan System works alongside automation to enhance harvest precision.
Converging Knowledge, Higher Selections
In accordance with Kringe, the SmartPan System supplies farmers with rapid, actionable intelligence that instantly strengthens harvest precision, tools and labor effectivity, and crop administration choices.
“Seed-to-harvest precision is barely nearly as good as the information behind it,” says Kringe. “By working hand-in-hand with John Deere, we’re delivering a streamlined move of information between discipline measurements and machine analytics, enabling farmers to refine mix calibration and automation for extra environment friendly harvesting, lowered grain loss, and finally increased profitability.”
The Bushel Plus SmartPan System helps a variety of crops, together with corn, soybeans, wheat, canola, barley, rice, and milo, and is obtainable in 20-inch, 40-inch, and 60-inch pan sizes to accommodate varied John Deere mix fashions, stubble circumstances, and header widths.
