100% Accuracy in Challenging Fields

For customized spraying services, agriculture is about balance: protecting crops, securing high yields, and ensuring resources are used responsibly. Moving toward a cleaner future where resources are maximized—building toward Clean Food, Clean World—requires making sure every single plant receives the right dose, at the right time, with 100% accuracy. Achieving this precision across thousands of acres and varying field conditions demands technology that simply works.

A Practical Choice for Real-World Demands

“We are a contract spraying operation, covering around 15,000 to 20,000 acres per sprayer each year,” shares spray operator Derek Shelley of Snyder Crop Services. “We run a Fendt Rogator 937H across a wide variety of terrain.” Choosing a custom spraying platform requires absolute reliability and accuracy across diverse fields, whether applying targeted treatments or protecting crop health.

Overcoming the Limits of Field Application

Managing service acres means handling unpredictable conditions daily. “The main thing for us is that we have a lot of pretty small fields—our average field size is about 12 acres. Nothing is square, so there are smaller corners, spots that are tough to get into, and passes right up against people’s yards or tree lines,” explains Derek. “With other systems, navigating tight turns, corners, and variable driving speeds creates constant application challenges. Slowing down leads to over-application, while speeding up can cause under-dosing or skippers. You often end up having to change nozzles frequently just to match different field sizes or speeds.”

Demanding 100% Precision Across Every Pass

To protect every crop and prevent wasted product, contractors need total application control. Every plant requires 100% precision: the exact volume, the right droplet size, and uniform coverage regardless of speed, terrain, or field shape. When navigating boundaries, waterways, or steep hillsides, the system must adapt instantaneously so that no plant is over-treated or missed.

“I can leave one set of nozzles on all year and not really have to worry about it. I can jump from a 12-acre field going 5 mph to a 100-acre field at 12 mph without stopping to switch nozzles. It saves us a lot of time throughout the day.” – Derek Shelley, Spray Operator, Snyder Crop Services

Upgrading to Complete Application Certainty

To meet these demanding conditions, Snyder Crop Services retrofitted their Fendt Rogator with the LeapBox. By controlling application parameters directly, the LeapBox transforms the machine into a plant-level application system. It maintains perfectly consistent application rates and pressure across every section of the boom, letting the operator focus on driving safely and efficiently.

Flawless Performance When It Matters Most

“The main appeal was the high accuracy and being able to treat at the plant level so we’re not overlapping or wasting product,” Derek says. The system delivers on key field requirements. Rather than struggling with speed changes, droplets, drifting, or tedious setup changes, the system opens up new efficiency across every pass:

• 100% Constant Pressure & Droplet Control: “We can adjust our pressure depending on what we’re going after. If we need to penetrate a tall corn canopy or target a tough weed, we turn the pressure up for finer droplets. If we’re right against a yard or sensitive crop, we turn it down to control drift.”

   

• One Nozzle for All Applications: “I can leave one set of nozzles on all year and not really have to worry about it. I can jump from a 12-acre field going 5 mph to a 100-acre field at 12 mph without stopping to switch nozzles. It saves us a lot of time throughout the day.”

• 100% Turn Compensation & Section Control: “The turn compensation is great—it puts more product on the outside of the boom when turning so it doesn’t under-apply, and slows down the inside. Plus, with individual nozzle control on 10-inch spacing, as soon as a nozzle crosses a boundary, it shuts off. That eliminates overlap completely.”

• Perfect Start & Stop: “Being able to go slow in tough corners while it still applies the correct rate without leaving skippers makes a huge difference.”

• Stress-Free Operations & Independent Upkeep: “The user interface works well for the most part on all our displays. In the virtual terminal, if I need to put in a new module or something, I can do that all on my end. Support’s available—if we do have an issue, even if it is middle of the night over there, they were really good at getting back to us”.

The Foundation for Plant Precision

Achieving 100% application accuracy across every field creates the essential baseline for future innovation. With flawless application established, executing data-driven task maps via Spraying on Data or adopting Real-time Spraying becomes a seamless next step toward full plant precision possible with BBLeap. “There is a chance we’ll use that task map in the fall here,” notes Derek. “I know how it works, and we’d like to try it”. 

Confidence on Every Acre

” I really like working with BBLeap, and it has been doing well for us. I wouldn’t want to switch to a different system,” Derek concludes. “The support has been really good, too. The accuracy, the ability to change pressure on the go, and the lack of overlap are the main reasons we recommend it.”

“The accuracy, the ability to change pressure on the go, the lack of overlap, and the great support are the main reasons we recommend it.“— Derek Shelley, Spray Operator, Snyder Crop Services

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