Farming Video | Johnny Verell and Chad Henderson Talk See & Spray Savings on the Farm

5 Oct 252m 12s

In this field-edge conversation, Johnny Verell and Chad Henderson break down their experience using See & Spray tech from Deere. Johnny shares how he wasn’t sure what to expect, but after putting it to work on his farm, he saw up to 70% savings on herbicide usage—more than even Chad's earlier 60% results. They dive into how machine speed and boom height affect the system, how mapping changed their mindset, and how they’re both using it for more than engineers probably planned. Real-world numbers, real savings, and two farmers learning together.

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00:00:00 Johnny Verell Extreme Ag. We're out here today at the field today getting ready for it to kick off. 00:00:04 And me and Chad were just talking about some things that, you know, that I did this year on my farm 00:00:07 that he's demoed in the past. And we were talking about seeing spray and seeing spray's been out for a few years. 00:00:12 You know, everybody's talked about it, does it work? Does it not work? And it was an eye opening experience for us on our farm. 00:00:17 You know, they've kind of changed some things up Deer has on how they build it, but Chad had always told me he was saving 00:00:22 about 60% is what he was saving. We saw the same thing. We actually saved closer to 70% on some farms. So for us it's been a big deal. 00:00:29 That's really a big saving, especially when the cost of some of the herbicides we're spraying right now and, 00:00:33 And it started, you know, with the one way they built it, you know, it was like, Hey, it's so many dollars an acre 00:00:37 and it was so much for corn and then so much for cotton and, and now they're building it. 00:00:41 It is your only build when it does not spray. Does not spray, which is, you know, which which is fair. Yeah. So we've been looking at some of this 00:00:48 and you don't really think about it. You run through the field until you start getting a map. Yeah. And you start looking at a map on it, you're like, 00:00:53 oh man, it really didn't run that much. We're looking at this map here and this, this actual map here, we actually saved about 75% 00:00:59 of the time it was not spraying. Yeah. Which blows my mind. It actually looks kind of bad 00:01:03 because what we did learn, if you go 12 miles per hour, the boom's gonna turn on all the way across, so you gotta make sure you do your 00:01:10 part and stay under 12 and Stay under the speed. Yeah. But other than that is pretty far. And what about the height on it? 00:01:15 Yeah, we are looking at the height. Ain't there a height range on it too? Yeah. Do you remember what that was? 00:01:19 I don't remember exactly what, we didn't have any issues with that. Like if we went over a terrace it would kick on. Yeah. 00:01:23 But going through the field it was always on. Looks like it should be. But you know, at the end of the day it's just amazing. 00:01:27 'cause what we couldn't ever figure out is how full do we fill the sprayer? Yeah. If we couldn't ever figure out how much we were fixing 00:01:31 to save, so we just started going, we were gonna save at least 60% and that's what we ran our numbers on and 00:01:35 That's what we Gonna run out. We were actually saving 65, 70% most time. And, and you know, if you get one 00:01:39 with a double tank on it, that's what I demoed one with a double tank and I, I had a, it, it would take a learning curve to figure out like, 00:01:45 Hey, what are we going to do? What are we gonna spray? You know, I know you run some of the double tank with some, with some fungicide 00:01:51 and fertilize, easy drop fertilize, easy drop. So that, that, that worked real well as well. So there's, we're, as us as farmers are finding out, 00:01:58 we got way more uses than what I think they had engineers thought that they would use it for. So it's been real good. 73 00:02:04.945 --> 00:02:06.665