Minter Magic Grows From Embracing Smart Apply 46sec | John Deere

19 Jan 2026 · 0 min

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Two almond growers credit John Deere's SmartApply system with tripling their spraying runtime on 200 acres and cutting chemical use from 5.5 vats down to one. The same tractor and tank now run six hours instead of two.

The SmartApply system is unreal. I can't believe how they can do that.
We bought a SmartApply because we put in 200 acres of new almonds, so we had a tractor go through with the same tank, same application rate, and it worked out that it ran for 2 hours. The SmartApply tractor ran for 6 hours, so that was a huge saving.
With our standard fan sprayer, we're using about 5.5 to 6 vats compared to 1 vat when we had the SmartApply on. That doesn't just save us chemicals, that was time.
So we haven't done the exact figures, but I reckon we're saving 20 on our big trees. On our little trees, we're saving up to 80% to 60% depending on the density of the tree. So we found it very, very viable.