by Josh Zuck, Lanark, IL 

Hope all is going well with this year’s planting season.  Last year John Deere introduced SeedStar Mobile with the ExactEmerge planters.  Retrofit kits are available for 2011 and newer 1770NT and 1790 planters.   SeedStar Mobile gives producers easy access to their planting data and provides the mobility they need to view the data at any time or place.

Flow of Planting Data

Last year the key function was high performance seed monitoring on your iPad to easily spot performance issues on a per row basis.

SeedStar Mobile High Performance Seed Monitor

This year Deere improved the app greatly!  You can now view previously planted fields.

SeedStar Mobile Home Screen

To do so, select the menu, then select field review.

Field Review Selection Screen

You can then pick the field you would like to scout and review the “as planted” map.  You can view planting data as a map overlay relating to:

• Actual population

• Target population

• Singulation

• Seed spacing CV

• Ride quality

• Applied downforce

• Gauge wheel margin

• Ground speed

• Variety

Field Review provides the grower the ability to perform basic crop scouting activities after the crop has emerged.  As long as you have an iPad with GPS you will see a little blue dot in the field for your current location.

Variety Map

You can then walk to the trouble area or hybrid change and see what issue you may have had or to see how that hybrid is performing.  The data can also be uploaded to MyJohnDeere operation center to view from your home.

Seedstar Mobile also allows you to remotely monitor planter performance in real time within the John Deere Operations Center.   Remote monitoring helps the grower or manager ensure the planter is performing properly without having to be at the field or inside the tractor cab.

If you are interested in purchasing SeedStar mobile or have more questions on it, please contact any of our 20 Sloan Implement locations.

Sloan Support is written by the product support team at Sloan Implement, a 20 location John Deere dealer in Illinois and Wisconsin.  Learn more at www.sloans.com