We Equipped our Sprayer with New Augmenta Technology!
[Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] good morning out and about figured I'd do a quick pass around some of these fields I'm trying to look for cheek grass see if I need to spray ahead of these Zer drills this morning is cold there's a lot of dew a lot of water um it's uh it's cold it's like 37° F I think it was 36 this morning that's not far off from freezing so we're getting getting closer and closer to the first freeze of the year I I don't think the forecast is going to let that happen in the next week but we'll see I don't know forecast hasn't always been right but anyways we should get a big day in the day both air drills going wheel seals holding up on that one bud get this slammed out I really think this is a great year to be putting a lot of winter weed in and so I think we're all going to do it we're pretty much all in agreement keep filling them up keep rolling it'd be really nice to throw in the towel right now and be like you know what we're done with the major Farm operation for the year let's call it it's been a it's been a been a long year you know we'd be ready for some slower times but you know what every acre we see now is an acre less we have to seeed next spring and that takes a lot of pressure off next spring so we'll keep going oh there it be I'm going to go ahead and fire up this girl for leg arms he'll be down in a few minutes but I'm in the area so I might as well get it warmed up that way it's ready to go by the time you gets your GPS will all be dialed in satellites will be locked on and engine will be warm just looking this is typically an area where I usually saw G grass growing again we've been on this road smart smart thing would be not thinking about cost would be just a spray it cost in time let's blanket it and then that way if there's anything growing in here we don't want and hopefully be dead but I can followed that this is this this this year and it's had quite a bit of product on it that's taken care of pretty much everything it's just that little bit of grasses that I've been waiting all year to grow I don't see any if I don't kill them now they'll be there in the spring when the crops in it but until then um if I don't see any I don't think I'm going to drive across it cuz for one I don't have time two I don't really feel like spending the money on it three this is super clean cuz it's been sprayed all year what do you guys think Sunrise that's what I think look at that beautiful good morning I think she's ready to work a little Frosty this morning not much didn't freeze anything like hard but it got a little chillier which is kind of surprising I would I would expect to be a little later than this but anyways let's just kind of run down just look and see if there's anything that looks out of the ordinary before I just start going and so I'm looking for bearings to see if there's any bearings that are broken on the Packers looking for broken Shanks looking for tubes that came off the boots just whatever I see that way I can uh not have very many problems when I'm seating all right I guess we're good to go things look okay all right it's about up to operating temperature it's been sitting here idling for about 10 minutes excuse me H felt that one deep down theide let's start rolling [Music] all right I like it so far things are going great where is my let's see let's go a little bit F that's why say my count is off on my drill so this number up here counts how many how much product is going through the tubes and I watch that number a lot so like it usually runs around 800 to 830 at about 5.4 mph if you go to about 5 mph it's about 790 roughly 8 somewhere in that range so it kind of drops so the slower you go the lower the number drops so if I'm going the same speed let's just say 5.4 and 600 either I got a bridge in the tank something's plugged to run or I'm running out of uh Cedar seed and fertilizer one of the two so I want to make sure that I'm watching that number it makes a huge difference now granted this thing's got scales and it's going to tell me like hey you're almost out of f ier or out of pro seed so I don't really have to worry about losing that it's more of bridging and what I mean by bridging is inside the tank what happens is sometimes the fertilizer will make a dome everything inside that Dome falls out and then gets out in the ground uh put out in the field and in that Dome it Bridges well then it keeps all the product up on top and it doesn't allow it to fall down so if that happens you got to go and take a rod and shove down to the tank and try to break it up or you got to thump on the back of the side of the tank to get it all to break up and that's usually what happens there but other than that it looks good I'm happy for those that might be wondering how the loss was on that af11 this is a stubble I cut this whole area with af11 the 230s were not down here doesn't that look good I'm I'm thoroughly impressed there is not much volunteer growing here at all volunteer would be grain that got kicked out of the back of the combine sprouted from all these rains we've been having and the other fields have some this field it looks good I see there's some Frost too which shows we had our first Frost of the year so some of these weeds I think are going to bite the dust just naturally so that's good all right well move on to the next field all right the coyote chase is on yeah I uh didn't see that I looked and all of a sudden I saw Kobe out in front jumped off the bud and off he goes and there he is heading right on over there's a reservoir right there probably running over it and then Dodge him and dog's life I don't think I could get the same thrill of that chase he lives for it good morning everybody I'm uh I'm not in an air drill I'm going to be doing some spraying that's what I always do a lot of spraying so the guys are out seeding getting that winter weat knocked out and I'm trying to stay ahead of them with the sprayer doing some burndown as well as taking care of some post harvest burndown in other words all the stuff that's grown in the fields after we Harvest that we don't want grow in the fields because we don't want to go to seed for next year I'm spraying that right now and I'm actually running the Apache this time not big brute I'm going to show you guys why CU we got something new on it and uh it's pretty sweet so uh let's go take a look there she be she's a well-used spraying machine we got about 2500 hours on this thing and it it's it needs a little bit of work but it's still running great so let's just go take a first bin so first thing you'll notice we got more screens in here we upgraded our invisio 2 I think it's what it's called to a Viper plus this thing is awesome Viper 4 plus and uh this it's just a simple tablet but it's what it's connected to is what's important right there look at that beauty that's a little different isn't it this is the aguga field analyzer from Raven Industries and it's uh it's going to upgrade the the uh smartness of the sprayer significantly this system capable up to 138 ft sprayer which this sprayer is 100 so we're good there we'll analyze what's in front of the sprayer so as I'm spraying it'll say oh I see green here I see green that's a plant that's a plant that's not a plant don't want to worry about that it'll actually adjust the rate of the sprayer as I'm sprain to apply the product variable depending on the need so as a variable rate applicator V and it's a relatively inexpensive system compared to the competitors on the market um and what it does is pretty amazing it's got a quite a range of features let's just do a quick overview of the system that's not part of it that's the Apache GPS receiver but this all this back bracketry here this is all aguga and that is very customizable depending on what sprayer cab system you're putting on whatever applicator it may be this is the augmented unit and here's the ambient light sensor so that detects how much light is out there in the day you can't do this at night this only works during daylight it has to use a certain amount of light and when the light gets too dim the system is just not uh accurate enough and it has to shut down and not work so you got to make sure you have the right light that's what that's for this is the fisheye camera I think it has to do is seeing the sky the clouds there's I don't know something about that with how it determines um it's or its functionality of it um these are the Field view cameras these are the heart of it there's six of them 1 2 3 four five six um they all have their own purpose and they span out and look both ways across square and cover sections of field in front of you and on this side over here is the embedded processor of course we got a little antenna for cell signal um it's got GPS Wi-Fi all the good stuff built into it and then that talks to the sprayer systems which is linked to that tablet which we're all control it from so let's get in the sprayer let's get this fired up and let's go to the [Music] field all right we're in the field we're W out got our job open on our diper ready to go on the augmena let's open it up let's select scan variable rate application go down to V burndown cuz we're doing phow this is phow that needs sprayed before the end of the year couple settings here let's go opening up so this is what your screen looks like so here's our sprayer camera just a vision right where this gray cone starts here this upside down triangle that's the camera and it's looking out across the 100t width of the sprayer all this are right here and it's scanning and that's what's going to see the plant material and when it sees more plants than it likes it'll up the rate so right now we're doing 10 gallon work but it's set so it'll reduce it back down to 6 gallons an acre while it doesn't see much product or much weeds to save on chemical then when it seeds a lot of weed pressure seeds a lot and it's like hey I need more product to take care of these weeds it'll up it up to 8 9 10 gallons an acre and then you'll see it as the bars move that's as it's seeing product now here's the thing this also is mapping so it's mapping the field so it's going to create a detailed log of where all the the vegetation was in the field for burnd down it's not as critical to keep that kind of log because we're just trying to kill it all but when you get into say desiccation or nitrogen applications or fungicides um all of those that's critical cuz then you could see the healthier crop cuz I'm not spraying crop right now but if I were on crop spraying it'd be scanning the healthier crop and you would get a detailed extremely accurate mapping of all of the health of your crop and you can go on and see all the colors change all the the different levels to see where is it thick where is it thin where does it look like it might have fungus where doesn't it where does it need nitrogen where it does it not need nitrogen way more accurate anything from space can get you from any satellites so and you don't have to fly a drone around a map you do it while you're spraying so uh and then it's also got the ability to do the variable rate so while we're spraying say we're desiccating it'll say oh there's a lot more material that needs more desate put more product there okay there's less here save there so at the end you're saving chemical and putting the product where it should be does that make sense let's get spraying so I want to show you guys there's a little bit of growth right here where the drainage is let's take a look at this you'll see a bunch of lines up here when it sees it okay now it's seeing the Green in the field it's going oh there's some weeds kick the eight up went to 8 gallons an acre 9 gallons an acre 10 gallons an acre as it's going over that spot of weeds right there back down to six so it does a minimum of six just to make sure you get a kill because there could be some plants that are small and it might not see but the majority is you're saving 30 some per up to maybe 40% of chemical on areas that don't need it see it's six right here we'll get to this ditch I bet you right here will jump up to nine N9 gallons 10 gallons see it's saw a bunch of weeds right there okay so now I switched over to spraying behind the combines so this is post Harvest spray the combines harvested a couple weeks ago in this area you can see there's new growth in here let's take a look down here oh yeah lots of growth lots of growth let's slow the sprayer back a little bit going a little fast so as we're spraying the feel is variable here there's some areas where the coms kicked out a lot of loss and some areas they didn't kick out much at all and it's pretty cool you can see it translate up here so there's a patch of green right here oh see the bars jumping up on this side and not on that side so it's cleaner on that side more on that side so it's putting more rate down 10 gallons an acre but as soon as we get to an area here we go see not much out there 8 gallons an acre 7 gallons an acre that's pretty neat with this old Apache we have one main control valve that's Jo the flow to the boom and the Boom is consistent across the whole thing so there's no individual nozzle control with this system right now um this system does not have the pwms that's pulsewidth modulators that's nozzles that fire on and off so you're not going to get that kind of benefit from the system on this sprayer the cameras on the system are pretty good and so what's awesome is it's taking pictures as you're spraying throughout the field it's uploaded into the cloud so if you go back on your computer at the end of the day and you go look at your Maps you're like wao this area was really red what was going on here you can actually pull up an image and go oh I see there was a bunch of kosa grown in the middle of that right there that's why it's saw so much green or you can say oh why was this area so yellow and you go and look and you go oh um that was a really hard ground High Alkali or just not very fertile whatever reason the crop didn't grow it got crusted didn't grow very good right there and you can see why those areas showed what they showed on your mapping when you're analyzing it all right so I'm in the office and here is my portal for uh the augment this is some of the work we did these fields are kind of messed up that was my fault I didn't start and stop the jobs correctly but let's just pull a field here so let's cck on this one we were doing a burnd down on this so we were spraying just weeds keeping the ground nice and dead before we see the winter read into it I sprayed ahead of the drills on this so let's take a look all right this is what the augmenta picked up so green obviously plant index that's weed index that's how much density of plants there are dark brown not very many weeds this is really hard ground here pretty much the productive ground that's really good ground is going to have weeds and the ones not but let's just see here let's take a snapshot of the picture oh look at that that's pretty cool it took a picture for me let's see what this looks like how dense is the weed here oh I see a lot of green don't you guys right there look at all that green so that's the front front of the sprayer right there now let's compare that to an area that doesn't have much like right here this one's pretty brown heading south let's take a look at this pull this one up and it looks yeah as you can see no weeds at all way in the distance there's some green out here so that's the difference and you can pull up different filters you can see there's the swath we did as we spray in really cool so no it uh gives you a lot of data on uh what is going on in your Fields And if you want to sit down and go through it all it's there for you let's generate report on this field so let's pull us up so here we go here is our weed index there's the field right there you can see just a snapshot of it gives me an idea of the pressure the weed just kind of interprets the data for you a little bit here's our savings so you can see it says savings 99.1% on that field pretty cool there I hope that gives you a little bit of an idea of how the augmena field analyzer from Raven Industries works um so far it's been pretty fun to use on the sprayer so I got a lot of anchr left to go with it we're going to keep running it [Music] hard what's your name what's your name that's a weird name to [Music] be oh yeah Good Times we're having good times wow that was uh I wasn't paying that much attention I'm heading down going over to another field and all of a sudden yum the tail all I saw was a tail and off was off the rabbit jumped up I wish I'd have got that right when it happened uh just to see his reaction but another ra rabbit went down well actually is gone so all right Venture continues you ready for another rabbit are you sure okay here we go oh another rabbit within uh 10 minutes that dog's going to have to have new shoes put on his feet cuz I think they're getting wore out oh he's stepping on his tongue that kind of tells you something right there he's C in turrets for his age he's over 12 years old but loves the chase ah he'll come back soon [Music] [Music]
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