Our crop maintenance technologies help you in many areas
Whether it is to control your production costs, increase productivity, optimize input placement, document your operations, reduce operator workload and accident risks, control herbicide resistance, reduce your environmental footprint, and much more.
For your sprayer, spreading truck or other equipment, we have the solutions that will meet your company’s needs.
Automation and guidance
When it comes to applying pesticidesand fertilizer orperforming mechanical maintenance, our automation and guidance solutions give you precision and peace of mind by reducing the operator’s workload and the risk of error. What’s more, because work windowsare often very tight, our solutions help you increase your productivity to optimize your opportunities. By strictly controlling the inputs you apply, you reduce over-application/under-application, ensure precise placement of your inputs, and obtain an optimal yield.
Our input control solutions ensure that you apply the target dose evenly regardless of your speed. In addition, combined with section control, they help you reduce overlap and skips.
Control your costs, eliminate under- or over-application and reduce your environmental impact with our solutions.
Camera guidance (AutoTrac™ Vision) allows you to come back to work in the field without damaging your crop. A camera is installed on your sprayer, cultivator or tractor and steers the equipment to optimize the pass.
A set of sensors (RowSense™) installed on the sprayer or cultivator determine the position of the plants to avoid damaging them during the pass.
Mobile Weather
Mobile Weather technology monitors certain critical environmental constants (air temperature, wind speed/direction, relative humidity, and delta T) for you in real time as you apply your products. Having this information at your fingertips helps you make decisions quickly to optimize the effectiveness of your products and avoid drift. In addition, when combined with a compatible display, you can document this information for future viewing.
ExactApply™ technology helps you optimize your spraying by independently controlling each of your nozzles. This ensures that you apply exactly the right dose and droplet size through a wide range of speeds.
In addition, this technology helps you save money by eliminating over-application due to overlap. It also helps you optimize your yield potential. With turn compensation, the nozzles on the inside of the turn will have a lower flow rate and those on the outside will have a higher flow rate to avoid under/over application.
The AutoSelect A/B feature allows you to automatically switch between two nozzles to maintain a good spray pattern and constant pressure.
ExactApply™ also allows you to apply high doses, with anindustry-exclusive rate of up to 468 L/ha at 24 km/h.
For those who perform night work, LED lights allow you to monitor your spray pattern and react quickly if there’s a problem.
More accurate than its predecessor,Boomtrac Pro, Boomtrac Pro 2 offers up to 22% more spraying accuracy (results obtained in various conditions). In addition, the desired height is maintained 5x longer, which is a real advantage on sloping grounds.
The CommandDrive™ all-wheel drive system maintains your selected speed at lower RPMs and increases it when you need more power.The CommandDrive™ system slows down wheels that are slipping and directs more flow to the other wheels to retain all-wheel drive.
Direct Injection
As solution tank mixes become more complex, operators need a better way to manage the various products they are mixing. The integrated direct-injection system provides an additional carrying capacity for raw chemicals and allows you to inject one, two and even three products directly into the boom.
The direct injection system helps you:
Save time by providing quicker product/solution changeovers
Rinse the boom faster
Reduce the risks associated with using multiple chemicals
Solution Command System
The Solution Command System makes it quick and easy to activate loading functions.
12 functions can be activated:
Fill station light
Agitation
Master spray (on/off)
Visual verification of nozzlesPump (on/off)
Pump speed increase
Pump speed decrease
Target fill
Eductor (on/off)
Automated rinse cycle
Fill push button
Pressure recirculation and product reclaim
Spraying quality is critical. The pressure recirculation system ensures that the boom is always loaded, which means that your boom is ready to work at all times compared to a conventional system that requires you to open sections and add product to load the boom.
This helps you:
Save time and chemicals
Reduce the potential for crop damage from chemical residue
Have a consistent distribution from one end of the boom to the other
Decrease nozzle blockages by increasing product agitation
Keep the suspended product mix in the boom
Benefit from an improved boom rinse
HarvestLab™ Manure
HarvestLab™ Manure measures (over 4,000 measures/minute) nutrient levels in real time during liquid manure application. This data (N, NH4,P, K, Dry matter) is recorded for documentation purposes.
In addition, when combined with a compatible John Deere tractor, the system will even be able to manage the tractor’s running speed to ensure the target rate of liquid manure is always applied.
Advantages include:
No negative impact on the consistency of liquid manure distribution from one end of the boom to the other
Much faster response time
Much more stable application control
Only possible option with manure irrigation spreading systems
360 Y-DROP®
Close to 75% of nitrogen is used after the V10 growth stage. The Y-Drop®systemenables you to have anitrogen reserveuntil late in the season. This willensure that plantshaveeverything they needto grow.
360 Undercover®
The 360 Undercover®system enables you to apply the mix under the plant’s foliage. By using this technology, you improve the effectiveness of certain pesticides.
Performance Upgrade Kit – Sprayer
Want to enjoy the benefits of the latest technology but not ready to replace your self-propelled sprayer? Upgrade your equipment with the PUK! Upgrade packages are available for the following technology:
ExactApply™
Individual Nozzle Control Pro
Product recirculation and reclaim
Direct injection
BoomTrac™ Pro and BoomTrac™ Pro 2
Load Command™
And more…
Telematics
Telematics includes the following technologies:
Equipment usage information
Equipment health monitoring
Equipment optimization
Automatic data backup to the cloud
Remote connection
Information sharing between machines
Crop maintenance operations are critical. With our telematics solutions, you can control the quality of spraying, input application and mechanical tillage work. In addition, your sprayer or tractor will alert you of any problem so that you can intervene proactively to avoid downtime in the field and plan maintenance work.
Your application data is essential to help you control the quality of the work done, compare the effectiveness of various products and much more. With our telematics systems, you are connected to your equipment and have quick and easy access to this information.
In addition, when you choose to share this information with our support teams, we can help you optimize your tractor or sprayer. We will also track equipment alerts so that action can be taken proactively to minimize downtime and plan maintenance during less critical periods.
Spraying, fertilizer application and mechanical tillage serve to protect your yield potential. They often need to be executed quickly, at critical stages. They can be risky and potentially destroy your or your neighbour’s crop.
Our tools help you make decisions based on accurate and up-to-date information and document your operations by providing evidence in the event of an audit.
To get the full return on your investment, you need to optimize your equipment’s performance (tractor, sprayer, spreader and cultivator). This means making sure your equipment is properly maintained and adjusted to field conditions.
Our tools help you analyze performance, schedule your maintenance, adjust equipment according to conditions and monitor performance and progress.
The JLD-Laguë Xpert Service is our team of 6 specialists dedicated specifically to precision agriculture, tasked with supporting you and ensuring that your precision agriculture tools are used to their full potential.
Learn more about precision agriculture and our Xpert Service today by contacting our call centre 24/7 at 1-877-4470-2583.