During the Soil Management Summit in Alexandria, Precision Planting Regional Manager Brent Horner highlighted a row-by-row monitoring system for granular operations. The Clarity system helps identify a blockage or even a partial blockage. “Where your typical system would only just say either I’ve got flow or no flow, we’re truly going to say there’s this much particle going through or it’s going to give a magnitude value,” said Horner. “Looking at that magnitude value, I’ll be able to detect meter issues, blocks in the meter, maybe a chunk in one of my distribution hoses that’s actually causing flow problems.” All of this information will be mapped so it can be viewed at a later time. The Clarity system will be addressed at the Precision Planting Winter Conference next month in Fargo and Aberdeen.
