Precision Planting - Reynolds Ag Solutions

READY ROW UNIT

The Precision Planting Ready Row Unit allows you to keep your existing planter frame, but upgrade to new row units and technology, for a fraction of the cost of a new planter. You’ll have the planter that you want and save a ton of money.

Keep Your Planter, Spend Money on What Makes You Money

When many farmers trade planters, the goal is to get an updated row unit that doesn’t need maintenance this season while also updating to the latest technology. Typically the toolbar of the planter is in great shape. What if you could get the updated row unit and technology you want, without the expense and hassle of trading planters?

The Precision Planting Ready Row Unit solves both issues: replace your current row units with a retrofit row unit and then build on that row unit with the latest technology.

Specs

Cast Iron Row Unit
14” parallel arms
16” Disk openers
11” of row unit travel
Gauge wheel options- 3” or 4.5”
Optional gauge wheel scrapers
Closing wheel options- rubber, cast iron, or none (add aftermarket)
Universal faceplate – many row cleaner and fertilizer coulter options
Manufactured in AGCO’s Beloit, KS factory, a state of the art facility which is ISO 9001 certified for meeting strict quality standards

CLEANSWEEP

Setting row cleaners correctly is time-consuming and frustrating. CleanSweep allows you to make row cleaner adjustments from the cab, eliminating the frustration of getting row cleaners set, saving you time while planting.

Give Every Seed a Chance

CleanSweep allows you to adjust row cleaners from the cab. Since it is easy, you will make adjustments when you should and prevent:

Late emergence from heat and moisture loss
Seedling diseases
Nutrients tied up by residue

Simple System, Big Payback

CleanSweep uses air cylinders on each row cleaner that can have pressure added to them or removed. Be more aggressive or run lighter, the choice is yours. The pressure adjustment is made by moving a lever in the cab to apply lift pressure or downward pressure to the cylinders so they clean the way you want them to. The result is correctly adjusted row cleaners, time savings, and an end to the frustration of not having the planter set correctly.

KEETON SEED FIRMER

When seeds don't make it to the bottom of the furrow, there is an air gap that causes a delay in emergence. Seed Firmers press each seed to the bottom of the furrow to improve seed-to-soil contact and give you a crop stand you can be proud of.

FURROWFORCE

Setting your closing system correctly is tough. FurrowForce is a two-stage closing system that adapts to your planting conditions to remove air pockets and firm soil to keep moisture, giving you confidence that your crops will germinate the best that they can.

How FurrowForce is Different

FurrowForce works fundamentally differently than other closing systems. In the first stage, notched wheels work to close the seed furrow from the bottom up, eliminating air pockets. In the second stage, stitch wheels carry weight on them to firm the soil over the seed to retain moisture.

FurrowForce on its own is a powerful product, but you also have the option to add load cells to measure and set weight on the closing system from the 20|20 monitor. When a load cell measures more or less weight than has been set on the 20|20, the FurrowForce system will automatically adjust row-by-row the force applied to the unit. When the second stage stitch wheels are carrying the correct weight, you know the first stage notched wheels are cutting into the soil at your chosen depth.

The 20|20 gives the operator a complete picture of planting performance, including metrics for closing like closing margin, good closing percent, and closing uniformity.

VSET SELECT

Traditional planters only allow you to plant one hybrid at a time, costing you yield when the hybrid you are planting isn’t the best one for the area of the field you are planting in. vSet Select is a multi-hybrid planting system that switches hybrids as you cross into different areas of your field, allowing you to maximize the varying areas of each field.

VDRIVE

Mechanical drive systems require costly and time-consuming maintenance. vDrive is a maintenance-free electric drive system that lets you breeze through planting without the headaches of a mechanical drive system.

ESET

John Deere vacuum meters need adjustment to properly singulate seeds, resulting in skips and multiples. eSet is a meter upgrade for John Deere planters that gives you picket fence stands without having to make time-consuming adjustments to the meter as you plant.

VSET

Traditional seed meters need continual adjustment to plant accurately which leads to skips, doubles, and ultimately, lost yield. vSet seed meters singulate seeds accurately without any adjustments resulting in perfect seed placement throughout your field.

PRECISIONMETER

The performance of finger meters vary when planting a range of seed sizes and shapes, leading to skips, multiples, and lost yield. PrecisionMeter uses an adjustable brush to better singulate a range of seed sizes and shapes. When planting with PrecisionMeters from Precision Planting, you can have confidence in your singulation performance.

ROWFLOW

Setting swath control timing and using variable rate prescriptions is not user friendly. RowFlow is a simple-to-use system to take command of swath control, to prevent overlap, save seed, and plant variable rates with ease, saving you time and eliminating frustration while improving your yield.

MSET

While you are planting, you can only plant one hybrid at a time which doesn’t allow you to match the hybrid to the field environment, causing profitability to be lost in each field. mSet is a multi-hybrid planting system that allows you to plant the best hybrid into each area of your field, improving field profitability.

BULLSEYE

Traditional seed tubes create erratic seed spacing due to premature wear and the sensor location. BullsEye seed tubes have tungsten carbide tips that make the seed tube last longer and a recessed sensor eye to prevent inconsistent seed spacing, eliminating the frustration of finding out your stand is not all that you expected when it emerges.

WAVEVISION

Traditional seed sensors count dust and seed, giving you inaccurate population counts and that uneasy feeling of not knowing if you can believe your planter monitor. WaveVision is a seed sensor that counts only seeds and not dust, giving you confidence that the population you see on your monitor is the population that you’re planting.

SPEEDTUBE

Most planting seasons have weather challenges that make it difficult to plant all your fields in ideal conditions. SpeedTube is a seed delivery system that allows you to double your planting speed without sacrificing performance. You’ll have a sense of accomplishment when the rain comes and your planter is already back in the shed.

Think differently about planting speed. Planting too fast will cause row units to bounce, seeds to bounce in the tube, and a poor stand. SpeedTube eliminates this issue because the seeds are controlled all the way from the vSet meter to the ground. If there is row unit bounce, it doesn't affect seed spacing because the seeds are contained within a flighted belt, keeping them in place. When seeds are under control, speed can be increased without sacrificing performance.

CONCEAL

The most efficient time to place fertilizer is during the planter pass, but many planter nitrogen attachments are bulky, messy, and high-maintenance. Conceal is a planter fertility attachment that is cleanly tucked into the row unit and places nutrition in the soil 3 inches away from the seed.

Broadcast Applications Are Inefficient

Broadcasting nitrogen before planting is an inefficient means of getting fertility to the plant. We only plant a row every few feet, so why spread fertilizer evenly across the entire field? A more efficient way to place fertilizer is to band the fertilizer in the row, just like we place the seeds. Banded nutrients can reduce the total amount of needed fertility by up to 30% while maintaining the same yield level. These banded nutrients should also be placed under the soil surface where they will stay in the soil, instead of being prone to volatilization when spread on top of the soil surface.

Plants Need Fertilizer While They Are Growing

Plants don't need fertilizer when the seed is still in the bag, they need the fertilizer while they are growing. This means it needs to be available for the roots to uptake in the most important times of the plant's life. In the case of nitrogen and corn, that first important time is from V4-V8 while the plant is determining the maximum size of the ear that it can produce. Nitrogen needs to be readily available to the crown roots of the plant during this stage in order to maximize the yield that can be produced by that plant. A band of nitrogen placed under the soil surface will move down the soil profile with rains that occur after planting and will be a few inches deep, right where crown roots can get it when they need it.

Conceal Puts Nitrogen Where it Should Be

Conceal is a simple nutrient placement device that places fertilizer in a band, incorporated into the soil, where the plant will be able to get those nutrients during the critical ear set stage. Conceal can be utilized to put either a single or a dual-band of nutrients down beside the row. Conceal is a combination of a gauge wheel that has a groove in it, and a knife running in the groove. The knife is guided by the gauge wheel so that placement is always the same distance from the seed. Since the knife is mounted to the front of the row unit, it does not interfere with the critical function that the gauge wheel plays: consistent and proper seeding depth. Conceal almost can't be seen on the row unit, tucked away inside the gauge wheel, where it does its job without increased row unit length or bulk that typically comes with nitrogen attachments.

Consistent Placement Around Every Turn

Why is Conceal the most consistent way to place nitrogen with the planter? It's all in the design of the knife running beside the seed, in the groove of the gauge wheel. Since the knife is placing the fertilizer directly beside the seed and not in front of or behind the seed, the distance from the fertilizer to the seed is always consistent. Also, since the knife is running in conjunction with the gauge wheel, it will be placing the fertilizer at a consistent depth relative to the seed. Around curves, over uneven seedbeds, and on each row, the fertilizer is always where it needs to be relative to the seed.

FURROWJET

Getting the right nutrients to seedlings early in the season is a challenge because fall-applied fertilizers limit the plant’s uptake in the spring. FurrowJet firms the seed in the trench while placing bands of fertilizer on and near the seed, so early roots can access essential nutrients at the perfect time, ensuring that plants are never hungry.

Phosphorus Doesn't Move

Phosphorus fertilizer does not move in the soil, which means that it needs to be placed where a plant will be able to access it. Broadcasting the immobile nutrient across the entire field doesn't make sense, because it won't move to the rows where the plants are. Phosphorus is Needed Early Phosphorus is responsible for cell division and elongation and is needed early in a plant's life in the highest quantity. Considering the lack of movement of the fertilizer and the plant's need for P early in its life, it makes sense to apply a phosphorus starter with the planter. Seedling roots and early crown roots of some crops will take up phosphorus; thus determining the ideal placement of the fertilizer. Feeding the soil in the fall and hoping to get some of the nutrients back for the plants in the spring can be improved upon by moving some of the fall application to a planter applied band.

Place Phosphorus Perfectly

Putting starter where the plant needs it when the plant needs it, takes FurrowJet. FurrowJet is a planter-mounted device that places three bands of phosphorus starter fertilizer near the furrow; one in the furrow, and two about 3/4" away from the seed on either side. These three bands are placed right where the seedling roots and crown roots will grow, taking up the P and thriving.

VAPPLYHD

Farmers experience up to 30% variability in the rate applied to each row with liquid control systems today. vApplyHD allows you to get the correct rate of liquid fertilizer to every plant in your field, ensuring your plants never starve, so that your fertilizer ROI is maximized. Solving Problems With Simplicity Instead of many components to meter, swath, measure, balance, and divide, the vApplyHD system uses a pump control module and then control modules on the toolbar. The modules on the toolbar control flow, measure flow, and swath all in a single device. These same modules can be configured in either section control or row by row control. Whichever way you decide to go, the result is your liquid fertilizer is applied at the correct rate and the 20|20 display in the cab gives you knowledge of how that application is occurRing. Flow measurement, flow control, turn compensation, variable rate prescriptions. All of this done by the on row vApplyHD module. One Module Can Be Moved Between Machines The same vApplyHD module that controls 5 gpa of in-furrow starter or 20 gpa of 2x2 nitrogen on the planter can be moved to the sprayer or the sidress bar to control the 70 gpa application of nitrogen. Make the investment of each module pay in multiple ways by moving the module and the 20|20 display from the planter to the sidedress bar or sprayer. A simple way to get the accuracy that you want without investing in multiple control systems.

DELTAFORCE

Running a single downforce setting across an entire field causes yield loss because the setting is rarely correct. DeltaForce is an automated row by row downforce control system that measures and adjusts downforce every time there is variability in your field, so your crops will thrive for optimal yields.

See What Isn't Seen

When there isn't enough weight to maintain depth, late emerged plants are the result and they can easily be seen. But what about when too much downforce is applied? Compaction is created by the gauge wheels, leading to restricted root development and yield loss, but it is only seen by getting a spade in the ground and looking at roots. Fields could be full of yield loss that has never been seen.

DeltaForce Solves Variability

DeltaForce replaces the springs or airbags on your current planter with hydraulic cylinders and load cells that measure how much weight is being carried on the row unit gauge wheels and keep it consistent. The operator sets a weight that should be carried on the gauge wheels, and DeltaForce does the rest, maintaining the same weight on the gauge wheels of every row, even across the variation of a field or from equipment. With DeltaForce, the hidden yield loss from compaction is eliminated, and each row is planted at the depth that was set. Great roots, great emergence, great yields.

AIRFORCE

A single downforce setting across the entire field leads to too much downforce in some areas and too little in others, causing lost yield. AirForce is a downforce control system that measures variability in the field and automatically adjusts your downforce needs to changing field environments, so you stop sacrificing yield as environments in your fields change.

AirForce Manages Gauge Wheel Weight

AirForce uses the weight measured by the load cells along with an air compressor containing valves, to automatically increase or decrease the amount of pressure in airbags on the planter to get the average gauge wheel weight correct. The pressure in the airbags on each row is the same. AirForce does a great job accounting for large changes in the field, like slope or soil type changes.

SEEDERFORCE

Your air seeder only allows you to choose one downforce setting, meaning that you can’t match it to every environment in your field. SeederForce is an automated downforce control system that measures and adjusts downforce every time you encounter variability in the field, to ensure that you have a consistent crop stand that provides great yields.

Measurements Lead to Adjustments

SeederForce uses load cells on the row units of the drill to measure how much weight is on the gauge wheel. By maintaining a consistent amount of weight on the gauge wheel, you can be confident that you are placing seeds at seeding depth because, in order to have weight on the gauge wheel, the disk opener has to first be creating a seed trench at the depth that it is set. From the cab of the tractor on the 20|20 display, the operator selects how much gauge wheel weight they want to have on the wheels of the drill and the SeederForce system makes automatic adjustments from there to maintain the desired weight.

Choose Section or Row-by-Row Control

SeederForce Section control varies the downforce applied to each rockshaft of the drill. Each section has a few load cells on it and the downforce is adjusted based on the average of these load cells. If one section of the drill is behind the tractor and needs more force to penetrate through tracks, it gets that weight without the wing sections having to have more force applied to them.

Row Control

SeederForce Row control varies the downforce applied to each row of the drill. Each row has a load cell as well as a hydraulic cylinder in place of the spring. If a single row needs more force to cut through residue and get to depth, that row gets more force; the row beside it does not. Each gauge wheel on the drill has consistent weight because each row's downforce is automatically adjusted to what it needs.

Downforce Plus Seeding Visibility

When SeederForce is installed on your drill, you not only get automated control of downforce, but you get visibility of seeding distribution as well. Now you can know if there are rows of the drill that are not planting correctly, and catch those issues before they cost you money.

YIELDSENSE

Yield monitors need time-consuming calibration many times per season to be accurate. YieldSense is a yield monitoring system that provides easy calibration and spatial accuracy throughout harvest so that you can trust your data to make accurate decisions.

Spatial Accuracy Matters

Getting accurate yield data on a field level is helpful, but calibrations are time-consuming. Getting yield data that is spatially accurate within a field helps make even better decisions. A spatially accurate and easy-to-calibrate yield monitor provides the best information for the best decisions.

Why it Works

YieldSense is accurate because it is different. YieldSense uses a flow sensor at the very top of the clean grain elevator to measure all of the crop as it comes off the paddle. Traditional flow sensors don't measure all of the crop and calculate yield improperly as a result. YieldSense also uses a specially shaped clean grain paddle so that the grain comes off of the paddle consistently. When grain is moving correctly across the flow sensor, variances in flow can easily be measured.

Setup is Simple

With YieldSense YieldSense is simple to use. One simple calibration per crop, per season, is all you need to get started. Our unique grain property kit keeps the sensor calibrated as you change hybrids, varieties, and moistures within fields, and from field to field.

SMARTFIRMER

Digging a few seeds per field doesn’t give you a complete picture of whether your depth setting is correct. SmartFirmer is a seed firmer-sensor that measures the amount of moisture available to the seed, so you can adjust your depth correctly and know you will have a consistent crop stand.

SmartFirmer Gives Confidence

SmartFirmer is a seed-firmer sensor that is measuring the furrow as it is firming each seed into the bottom of the trench. SmartFirmer helps you know that the environment that the seed is being placed in is in good shape, but can also help you determine what type of variability you may have in your field.

Soil Moisture Sensing

Adequate moisture is needed in the soil for a seed to germinate. If the soil does not have enough moisture for a seed to germinate, it will take a rain shower to get enough moisture for that seed to germinate. SmartFirmer measures and displays soil moisture in the cab so you can make adjustments to get seeds into adequate moisture.

Soil Temperature Sensing

Seeds need sufficient temperature to germinate, but how does temperature fluctuate throughout the day as the sun shines on the field and as you plant from one soil type to the next? SmartFirmer shows you real-time temperature as you are planting so you can make the right decision.

Furrow Uniformity

A consistent environment is essential for uniform seed germination and plant growth. SmartFirmer identifies any irregularities along the furrow, such as soil clods, air space, and dry soil falling from the surface, so that you can have the insight to correct row unit performance and solve these yield-robbing problems.

Residue Sensing

In-furrow crop residue has negative impacts on seed germination and growth. SmartFirmer allows you to measure the quantity of in-furrow residue and adjust row cleaners accordingly, thus ensuring residue won’t limit seed moisture uptake or transmit disease.

Organic Matter Sensing

In any field, there are multiple yield environments that are determined by differences in the field. One of the foundations of these differences is the amount of organic matter in different soils. The more organic matter in the soil, the more water and nutrients it provides. By measuring and mapping organic matter, you can get a clear picture of variability in your fields, measured every planter pass.

20|20

You cannot change what you cannot see. Let the 20|20 system lead you to better decisions as it monitors, controls, and diagnoses your field conditions and equipment performance in real-time.

High Definition Agronomic Technology

High definition data enables high impact decisions. The new 20|20 monitor provides the most advanced agronomic picture you’ve ever seen. Optimize planting, harvest, and application decisions with a smart, intuitive interface that visualizes performance and field conditions in real time; seed by seed, plant by plant, drop by drop. Customize display configurations, add sensors, and discover things about your field you may have never known.

From Knowledge to Ultimate Control

20|20 can be utilized as a monitor to help you simply set the planter to maximize planter perfomance in each crop, each day of planting. That same 20|20 also powers the most agronomically advanced systems on the market that control population, down force, liquid, multi-hybrid planting and high speed planting, all while sensing the furrow. 20|20 does all this and more to allow you to not only have the accurate data to make those crucial decisions, but also gives your equipment the powerful automation to make decisions as it passes through the field, optimizing every pass.

For the Air Seeder and Drill

20|20 provides the operator of an air seeder or drill visibility that is unavailable anywhere else. This visibility is two fold; seeding distribution and downforce. Is an outlet to a tower plugged? 20|20 will alert you. Need a change in downforce on the air seeder? See it with the 20|20 and make an adjustment before it costs you.

For the Sidedress Bar

Utilize 20|20 on the sidedress bar to capture rate by row, and pair it with vApplyHD to control the rate on each knife. The same display provides you with the clearest agronomic picture available.

For the Combine

Move 20|20 to the combine, paired with YieldSense, and you now have a powerhouse of knowledge at your fingertips. Compare maps side by side, with the most accurate yield data available on the market. You need knowledge to make decisions, and you get it with 20|20 year round.

FLOWSENSE

Current fertilizer flow meters tell you if fertilizer is flowing, not the rate that is being applied on each row. FlowSense allows you to measure the rate of fertilizer you are applying on each row of your planter, to make you aware of any row-to-row variability that is occurring so that you can be confident in your application rate.

FlowSense Let's You Know

FlowSense tells you liquid application rate on each row. Displayed on the 20|20 in the cab, you will know what rate each row is receiving, and be able to fix issues if they are occurring.

Option for Using Different Grades

EM FlowSense is designed with no physical components in the liquid stream, so it works well with any grade of fertilizer–even thick products and products in suspension. The traditional turbine is replaced with an electromagnet.

Products

Emergence

Meters

Seed Delivery

Liquid Control/Delivery

Downforce Control

Monitoring & Measurement