John Deere Africa | See & Spray™ Select

Grain producers managing weed pressure on fallow ground need a complete weed kill, but managing herbicide resistant weeds comes at a cost as more expensive tank mixes are the solution. To address this head on, we're introducing See and Spray select on our new 400 and 600 series sprayers. See and Spray select enables spot spraying of weeds on fallow ground and is our first offering using this new technology, making it the only factory installed spot spraying solution for farmers. Built on the exactapply foundation, See and Spray select uses advanced camera and nozzle control technology to differentiate color on fallow ground. Detecting weeds and Spot spraying spray length or buffer is the leng of the spot spray zone. These lengths can be small, medium or large and can vary based on ground speed, spray pressure and boom height. The system detects weeds and automatically turns individual nozzles on and off for the desired spray length to hit just the weed.

CN Spray builds on a foundation of our self propelled sprayer with exactapply to reduce chemical inputs by only turning on nozzles when a weed is detected, and it does that seamlessly and 100%. Integrated with the John Deere spray, See.

And spray select hits 98% of weeds, which is similar to the hit rate of Broadcast Spray. But since See and Spray only hits the weed and not the entire field, it uses an average of 77% less herbicide than Broadcast spray. That's right. In tests on 75,000 acres of fallow ground in average growing conditions with a typical weed pressure of 3,000 weeds per acre and using an average spray length of 2.75ft, tank level sensor values reported an average herbicide savings of 70.