2024 John Deere Manure Constituent Sensing Base

2024 John Deere Manure Constituent Sensing

Measure liquid manure nutrient levels in real time using the HarvestLab™ 3000 sensor

Precisely apply nutrients at targeted or limited levels with automated speed control

Document liquid manure nutrient application to better control total crop nutrient costs

Use nutrient application data layers in John Deere Operations Center to make better decisions

Features may include:

• HarvestLab™ 3000 continuously measures nutrients during the application at more than 4000 times per second. This allows for tracking of nutrient variations between different storage locations as well as differences within individual tank loads. This data is then used to control application amounts as well as the creation of as applied documentation for each nutrient across the field. With John Deere Manure Constituent Sensing, ingredients can be applied based on a target rate for one nutrient and a limit rate for a second ingredient (i.e., target rate for N, limit rate for P).

• HarvestLab 3000 utilizing near-infrared sensor (NIR) technology paired with John Deere Manure Constituent Sensing will record manure nutrient levels for total nitrogen (N), ammonium-N (NH4), phosphate (P), potassium (K) and dry matter. Tests have shown that liquid manure can be highly variable for nitrogen (N), phosphate (P) and potassium (K) between different loads with a variance factor of 4-6 for nitrogen, a factor of 10 for dry matter and a factor of 25 for phosphate.

• John Deere Manure Constituent Sensing enables significant improvements in accuracy of information and application of liquid manure nutrients as compared to taking a limited number of samples per storage location or transport vehicle. The John Deere HarvestLab 3000 sensor and the respective calibration curve have been developed to deliver a higher degree of accuracy as compared to limited random samples sent to commercial labs. The NIR sensor with manure calibrations has been benchmarked against both commonly used analysis methods in laboratories (wet chemical) and NIRS lab analysis. The results indicate that the relative error for HarvestLab 3000 Manure Constituent Sensing is in the range for samples analyzed using wet chemical laboratory tests.

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• The John Deere Operations Center serves as the central location for contractors and farmers to connect their machines and fields. Through sharing partnerships, growers, contractors, consultants, and dealers can share valuable machine and agronomic data. This allows remote support as well as timely advanced services such as prescription creation and execution.

• With John Deere Manure Constituent Sensing, the operator can determine which ingredients/values he wants to document with the GreenStar™ 3 2630 Display, 4600 CommandCenter™ Display, or 4640 Universal Display among nitrogen (N), ammonium-N (NH4), phosphate (P), potassium (K), dry matter (DM) and applied volume. These displays support up to four ingredients to be documented at the same time. As-applied maps can be uploaded manually or wirelessly with John Deere Wireless Data Transfer (WDT) into an Operations Center account. Consultants and producers can leverage the nutrient maps to calculate site-specific amounts of mineral fertilizer needed to achieve the optimum nutrient target levels.