New Holland has launched IntelliSense Sprayer Automation, probably the most complete utility automation answer available on the market and a manufacturing unit providing for brand spanking new Mannequin Yr 2026 Guardian sequence entrance growth sprayers: the SP310F, SP370F and SP410F. The system can be utilized on a large spectrum of crops — from corn, soybeans and cotton to pulse crops and small grains like wheat and canola — with an unprecedented record of full-season utility capabilities, together with herbicide, fungicide, plant development regulator, nitrogen and harvest assist. This expertise is accessible with no annual subscription necessities or per-acre charges.
“IntelliSense Sprayer Automation is the most recent addition to the New Holland machine automation portfolio, becoming a member of our current harvest automation and baler automation options. This technique options modern reside variable charge and selective spray modes, which is able to improve the productiveness, effectivity and high quality of utility already synonymous with the Guardian entrance growth sprayer to an entire new degree,” says Curtis Hillen, money crop section lead, New Holland North America. “Operators and farmers are going to have the ability to optimize the return on their inputs and improve productiveness each by way of acres lined and ensuing crop uniformity and yield. IntelliSense Sprayer Automation is in a category of its personal as probably the most versatile sense and act spray expertise accessible.”
Distinctive positioning creates an eagle eye vantage
Not like different sensible apply expertise acquainted to North American applicators and farmers, which make use of a number of boom-mounted cameras, IntelliSense Sprayer Automation makes use of a single cab-mounted, factory-fit SenseApply Digital camera unit.
The SenseApply digicam unit is a forward-looking, multi-spectral imaginative and prescient system that permits IntelliSense Sprayer Automation to repeatedly scan upcoming subject situations (50 ft out in entrance of the sprayer) throughout the complete width of the growth from a excessive vantage level atop the cab. The end result: an expanded imaginative and prescient of the sphere that generates faster and longer main assessments, permitting the operator to drive and apply precisely at a quicker pace than every other sense and act expertise available on the market in the present day.
Complete group of distinctive sprayer capabilities drives utility productiveness
The main side of the brand new IntelliSense Sprayer Automation is its Selective Spray perform. It affords operators the selection of two utility sorts to reinforce herbicide functions: Spot Spraying and Base + Enhance.
Spot Spraying makes use of green-on-brown performance and operates by detecting weeds smaller in stature (lower than two inches in peak) and prompts nozzles on the growth that correspond to the placement of the detected weed.
The place an operator is making use of a broadcast herbicide over a subject, Base + Enhance mode applies a uniform base charge throughout your complete protection width and prompts a localized increase charge from nozzles the place weeds are detected. When the SenseApply digicam identifies a weed, IntelliSense Sprayer Automation boosts the utmost utility charge for that single weed throughout the herbicide’s prescription charge vary.
These two operations provide farmers enhanced capabilities to make the most of their herbicide utility: the power to use a broadcast herbicide to knock out smaller weeds and a prescription charge to handle bigger weeds. Inside each Selective Spray modes, the operator can alter sensitivity and protection space. This implies the operator can regulate the system’s responsiveness to weed dimension based mostly on a scale of small, medium or excessive and the goal utility space the place a weed is detected.
Past Selective Spray, IntelliSense Sprayer Automation bolsters its capabilities with a variety of full-season reside variable charge utility capabilities that additional elevate a sprayer’s productiveness, utility and total working ROI. Capabilities embody nitrogen variable charge utility (VRA), plant development regulator VRA, fungicide VRA, harvest assist VRA and burndown VRA. These capabilities function by routinely adjusting the quantity of every enter utilized (nitrogen, PGR, fungicide, harvest assist and burndown) based mostly on detected biomass well being ranges.
To additional in-field productiveness, a Guardian entrance growth sprayer actively participating one of many VRA capabilities can function at speeds as much as 25 mph. If Selective Spray is in lively use, the sprayer can run at speeds as much as 19 mph. That is an industry-leading pace vary that ensures sprayer operators can keep a excessive degree of in-field efficiency and high quality of utility to maximise each ounce of enter operating by way of the growth.
Presently, IntelliSense Sprayer Automation can be utilized on a wide range of crops, together with corn, soybeans, wheat, barley, canola, cotton, small grains, edible beans and different legumes.
Outcomes past in-field productiveness
“The dialog round sense and act expertise at all times gravitates towards financial savings,” Hillen states. “Productiveness is crucial, however farmers additionally need to know the way it’s immediately affecting their pockets.”
In response to Hillen, IntelliSense Sprayer Automation can create value financial savings for applicators by enabling extra environment friendly functions. In 2024, Kansas State College and CNH partnered to conduct subject trials evaluating the efficiency of IntelliSense Sprayer Automation’s nitrogen VRA perform in corn. The findings: ~10 % financial savings in utilized nitrogen in comparison with a relentless broadcast charge. Contributing to this result’s the system’s nitrogen VRA perform, which might establish and routinely apply probably the most acceptable quantity of nitrogen throughout the prescribed charge vary in response to the assessed plant biomass well being.
“If that crop has already met its potential and an operator is broadcast making use of, they’re losing that nitrogen utility. With IntelliSense Sprayer Automation we will flip the extent of utilized nitrogen down or up based mostly on what that crop would possibly want. We’re analyzing and nurturing particular person crops now versus taking a large brush to all the things within the subject to extra effectively and successfully use our crop inputs and people valuable budgets,” Hillen feedback.
The nitrogen use effectivity of IntelliSense Sprayer Automation creates monetary financial savings but in addition extends the exercise of that sprayer tank, permitting the operator to not must cease and replenish as ceaselessly. Contemplating the Kansas State College analysis, a 1,600-gallon sprayer tank now turns into, in principle, a 1,700+ gallon sprayer tank.
“With this expertise, we’re producing financial savings for the farmer throughout each kind of utility they’re making. It’s a full-season answer,” Hillen says. “IntelliSense Sprayer Automation is giving us higher and quicker utility placement with out compromising outcomes to drive productiveness and constructive monetary outcomes, from maximizing yield to dialing in our utility effectivity. It’s a device in contrast to something a farmer, customized applicator or ag retailer will discover in broadacre crops.”
IntelliSense Sprayer Automation will probably be accessible factory-fit on Mannequin Yr 2026 Guardian sequence entrance growth sprayers — the SP310F, SP370F and SP410F.
