John Deere Precision Upgrades for Your Planter

Maximizing efficiency and yield is crucial for any farming operation. Upgrading your John Deere planter with precision technologies allows you to leverage the latest advancements without replacing your current equipment. This guide explores available precision upgrades to enhance planting accuracy, reduce input costs and boost crop yields.

Why Upgrade?

Investing in your equipment can maximize your return. Precision upgrades, such as the latest row unit technology like ExactEmerge™ or MaxEmerge™ 5e, ensure a strong start by improving the accuracy and efficiency of your planting process. Investing in these upgrades is more cost-effective than buying new equipment, allowing you to boost yields and profits without the higher expense.

Advanced Meter Technologies

Advanced Meter Technologies, such as ExactEmerge and MaxEmerge 5e, significantly enhance planting efficiency and accuracy. These technologies ensure precise seed placement even at higher speeds, while also maintaining population accuracy across various field conditions.

ExactEmerge

ExactEmerge allows you to plant at higher speeds without compromising accuracy. The patented BrushBelt™ delivery system ensures precise seed placement at speeds up to 10 mph (16 km/h), covering more acres each day and completing planting faster. This system minimizes seed bounce and roll, enhancing spacing accuracy and boosting yield potential.

MaxEmerge 5e

MaxEmerge 5e handles curved and irregular fields with ease. Electric drives maintain population accuracy around curves, making the system ideal for variable rate planting. The row units feature electric drive meters, eliminating mechanical drive wear and providing smoother operation. The row-by-row shutoff ensures perfect spacing around corners and curves, and the units are compatible with a wide range of crops.

Core Precision Upgrades

Core precision upgrades improve seed placement, nutrient application, soil management and visibility.

• ExactShot™: Delivers precise doses of starter fertilizer directly onto the seed, reducing fertilizer use and saving up to 60% on in-furrow nutrient input costs. Switch between dosing and continuous mode from the cab, ensuring nutrients are applied efficiently. Easy to set up, monitor and adjust using your G5 Display.
• ExactRate™ Liquid Fertilizer System: Maximizes yield potential by applying nitrogen during each planting pass. Offers row-by-row section control and turn compensation, ensuring precise nutrient placement even at speeds up to 10 mph (16 km/h).
• Individual Row Hydraulic Downforce (IRHD): Ensures consistent planting depth and optimal seed-to-soil contact, even in rapidly changing field conditions. Adjusts the downforce up to five times per second, maintaining accuracy.
• FurrowVision™: Provides a live camera feed of the seed trench, allowing you to verify seed depth and placement from the cab. Saves time by validating seed depth accuracy across planter sections and making necessary adjustments without leaving the cab.
• Frame Weight Distribution: Manages the weight of the planter, reducing soil compaction and ensuring even weight distribution. Redistributes weight to the wings, increasing downforce on row units and reducing compaction.
• Ultimate LED Lighting: Extends your working hours into the night, providing illumination across the entire toolbar. Includes in-tank mounting and added lighting under the bar on each row unit.

Optional Add-Ons

• Active Pneumatic Downforce : Increase or decrease pressure and maintain row-unit target margin values from the cab.
• Pneumatic Closing Wheels: Adjust closing wheels in seconds. Available on MaxEmerge 5e and ExactEmerge row units, pneumatic wheels provide consistent trench closing in rough field conditions.
• Easy Adjust Row Cleaners: Use three preset heights to remove residue from the seed trench. Make changes from the cab with the touch of a button.
• Yetter Twister Closing Wheels: Break up soil compaction with Yetter Twister closing wheels. Effective in a wide range of soil types and conditions, the rounded center-ring design ensures consistent trench closure.

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