Save Time in the Field with Ag Leader
By: Jake Draves | Precision Ag Sales and Service
Want to save time in the field but don’t want to buy new equipment? Two Ag Leader products come to mind for me — SureSpeed and RightSpot. SureSpeed helps you save time during planting while RightSpot gives you a boost in coverage during application season.
SureSpeed
After a brief pause to navigate patents, SureSpeed is back! SureSpeed is Ag Leader’s aftermarket solution to speeding the planting process up to 12 miles per hour while still being able to achieve a set population. While higher speeds could mean a drop in singulation or seed placement for other systems, SureSpeed handles it with ease.
SureSpeed fits on a wide variety of planter makes and models, including bulk fills and box hoppers. It has three different hopper options depending on your style of planter: 3-bushel boxes, 1.7-bushel boxes available in grey or yellow, and mini hoppers for bulk fill. Seed firmers that utilize the Keeton Quick Attach bracket will also work with SureSpeed. This product supports corn, soybeans, cotton, sugar beets, sunflower, sorghum and milo seeds. Each seed type has its own disk with a different number of cells except for soybeans which have two disks depending on row spacing.
Ag Leader made this product easy to use and easy to maintain. Performing maintenance when you’re prepping your planter before the season begins takes little time. The simplicity of this product also makes it extremely easy to service in the shop or the field with the brush wheel, belt, seed disk, ejector wheel and singulator being large enough that you won’t lose them while servicing. Changing crops has also never been easier, with no changes to the seed tube or any tools needed besides your hands. You simply swap out the disks and ejector wheel, saving you time from going back to the shop to grab tools and swap a whole meter out.
SureSpeed works best with a downforce system, but it is not needed to still run exceptionally well. The InCommand GO 16 and the InCommand 1200 are also the best displays to use with SureSpeed, giving you a window into your row units from the cab.
RightSpot
Another time-saving product is RightSpot, Ag Leader’s nozzle-by-nozzle control. Rightspot piggybacks directly off the Direct Command L2 system, the new propriety liquid control system allowing you up to 36 sections for swath control. This product works on an even wider amount of equipment and can control up to 144 nozzles! RightSpot is only compatible with the InCommand 1200 display or InCommand GO 16 display. However, it increases productivity, decreases overlap and gives you consistency like no other throughout a large range of speeds, no matter the terrain. With adjustable duty cycles on your fence row nozzles, you control how neat and clean your boundaries are.
RightSpot even compensates for front boom sprayers. On front boom sprayers, the rate can be adjusted using the rate shift feature on said nozzles in front of the tires. Instead of doing that, you could also route extension cables from the Valve Control Modules to the valves on the rear tire fenders. RightSpot is also compatible with fertilizer drops with no additional fee to “unlock RightSpot” on the InCommand 1200 or InCommand GO 16. RightSpot is even capable of boom recirculation, called boom loop. With boom loop, you can get the product flowing before you even get to the field and keep the product from settling in the boom if stopping the machine.
If you want to get more speed and accuracy out of your equipment without paying new equipment prices, I recommend looking into aftermarket upgrades like SureSpeed and RightSpot. When it comes to precision technology, they’re easily two of my favorites to level up your equipment and performance. To learn more about Ag Leader products, contact our precision ag team.
