Precision Planting revealed new products for both planting and spraying during the recently held PTx Winter Conference in the USA. These products include ArrowTube precise planting, SymphonyVision Duo precise weed control and SmokeRow precise edge spraying.
Precision Planting ArrowTube is a seed delivery system that controls all aspects of seed placement at a high speed to help each plant reach its full potential. When corn seeds are planted tip down, with the embryo facing the adjacent row, the radicle root and coleoptile are able to naturally grow up toward the soil surface and down into the soil, along with a strong correlation of leaves growing across the row rather than with the row.
ArrowTube uses seed acceleration and strategic friction to orient seeds as they move through a path from the seed meter to the furrow. A knife cuts a narrow sub-furrow into which the seeds land and are held in the proper orientation in the ground. It also orients the embryo sideways to promote corn leaves that grow across the row to capture maximum sunlight. The result is increased yield potential, faster canopy closure, and appropriate spacing at high speeds, along with the most uniform emergence possible.
Residual herbicides are important for a complete weed control program. A retrofit sprayer system that uses cameras, concentrate tanks, and a dual nozzle system, SymphonyVision | Duo uses two SymphonyNozzle systems. SymphonyVision | Duo enables farmers to spot spray contact herbicide and broadcast apply a second tank mix with the sprayer they already own in the same pass.
The primary nozzle system broadcast applies the primary tank mix while the second nozzle system pulls chemical from the main solution tank, infuses contact herbicide, and then spot sprays this mix where the cameras see weeds. SymphonyVision | Duo maximizes the land surface covered by allowing farmers to utilize the full capacity of their main solution tank and does not have per acre fees associated with it.
Precision Planting SmokeRow reaches weeds on the edges of fields that are not controlled can go to seed causing an increase in the weed seed bank and more weeds that need to be controlled in the field the following season.
SmokeRow adds two nozzles at the end of the boom that spray beyond the boom, controlling weeds in field edges, waterways, terraces and more. SmokeRow pulls chemical from a secondary solution tank, allowing a different tank mix to be sprayed through the SmokeRow nozzles than the rest of the field.
