See & Spray premium performance upgrade kit for Deere sprayers 

John Deere recently introduced a new See & Spray Premium performance upgrade kit for its self-propelled sprayers. The kit uses a vision system powered by artificial intelligence that can help farmers be more cost efficient by only targeting weeds and not spraying an entire field.

“Farmers continue to face rising input costs,” said Jordan Lang, marketing manager for John Deere. “Once a See & Spray Premium performance upgrade kit is installed on their sprayer, farmers can cover more acres than before on a single tank – while using targeted spray – making fewer stops to fill and using less chemical. Only weeds are sprayed, so less chemical is used, making it possible to decrease input costs. When activated, See & Spray generates an as-applied map that shows exactly where product was applied in the field.”

See & Spray Premium uses the advanced stability provided by John Deere BoomTrac Pro 2.0. This technology stabilizes the sprayer boom as cameras mounted to the boom capture clear images of the field. Within milliseconds, a machine learning model uses multiple images captured by the cameras to differentiate weed from crop. Once a weed is detected, a command is sent to spray it.

“See & Spray Premium provides farmers who are happy with their current sprayer, or who recently traded into a sprayer, a way to take advantage of the latest John Deere technology that can help them reduce chemical use and lower their input costs,” Lang said.

See & Spray Premium is offered for model year 2018 and newer John Deere sprayers in the U.S. Machines must have a factory-installed ExactApply system or ExactApply Performance Upgrade Kit with 15- or 20-inch spacing and a 120-foot steel boom.

For more information, visit John Deere.com or contact your local John Deere dealer.