THE PRECISION SPRAYING
REVOLUTION HAS STARTED
John Deere is revolutionising spraying helps protect the environment and to-pass accuracy. Another important
applications on amenity turf with its increases productivity by reducing benefit is individual nozzle control,
new GPS PrecisionSprayer, available operator fatigue. which minimises application errors
exclusively for use with the ProGator
heavy-duty utility vehicle. “The GPS PrecisionSprayer offers an
Launched at BTME 2019 in January customers to be more productive and
alongside the 2750 greens mower – accurate when maintaining turf,” says
the first time new golf products have John Deere’s European turf sales &
been launched by Deere in Europe marketing manager Carlos Aragones.
ahead of the Golf Industry Show in the
US – this advanced technology system
offers golf course managers and other
amenity turf professionals a proven,
off-the-shelf, integrated John Deere
innovative solution that allows our
“John Deere boasts over 20 years of
GPS experience, which was vital when
creating this new sprayer. We were
able to take advantage of our industry
solution for precision spraying. leading knowledge of satellite guidance
With features such as AutoTrac supports our customers by increasing
satellite guided automatic steering, a productivity and accuracy while
full-colour in-cab touchscreen display reducing labour and material costs.”
and individual nozzle control, the
easy-to-use GPS PrecisionSprayer
increases application accuracy
and consistency, lowers input costs
through reduced overlaps and misses,
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technology to develop a solution that
One of the most notable features on
the GPS PrecisionSprayer is AutoTrac,
which helps to spray predetermined
areas in less time with greater pass-
and reduces fatigue, as the operator
does not need to focus on manually
turning boom sections on and off.
Individual nozzles can be paired with
AutoTrac guidance to limit wasted
product applications caused by pass to
pass overlaps and misses.
The GPS PrecisionSprayer utilises
advanced satellite technology and
mobile RTK (real-time kinematic)
navigation down to accuracy levels
of 2.5cm to ensure the reliability of
boundary maps and allow users to
create spray coverage maps, which
also eliminates overlaps and increases
productivity.
Another major benefit is the ability
to electronically capture all spray
data and analyse the results, which
streamlines the documentation