First sprayer with One Smart Spray’s weed management system launched

Stara’s Imperador 4000 Eco Spray can operate 24/7 using ONE SMART SPRAY’s technology, which includes an LED lighting system. - Photos; Stara

One Smart Spray announced that Stara has launched the first crop protection sprayer in Latin America to feature its precision weed management system. The system was unveiled at the recent Agrishow in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, on Stara’s Imperador 4000 Eco Spray crop protection sprayer.

The new Stara sprayer fully integrates One Smart Spray’s technology, which utilizes a camera-based system and artificial intelligence developed by Bosch to enable real-time detection and spraying of weeds during the same pass, selectively spraying herbicides only where weeds are present instead of the whole field.

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One Smart Spray’s precision weed management system enables Stara’s Imperador 4000 Eco Spray to apply herbicide in pre-emergence and post-emergence conditions.

Digital and agronomic

The system features the digital and agronomic intelligence of xarvio® Digital Farming Solutions including its weed distribution and as-applied area maps, recommendations for herbicide programs and application windows, automated documentation, intelligent sensitivity levels, among other functions. The Imperador 4000 Eco Spray enables farmers to spray 24/7, day and night, due to a LED lighting system and offers performance in both pre-emergence (green-on-brown) and post-emergence (green-on-green) application.

One Smart Spray – a joint venture of Bosch and BASF – was established in 2021, joining the hardware, software and connectivity capabilities from Bosch and the digital and agronomic expertise of BASF. The commercial launch of the Imperador 4000 Eco Spray is the culmination of a collaboration between Bosch, BASF Digital Farming and Stara that goes back to 2019, which has focused on developing and integrating the One Smart Spray weed management technology.

Stara is offering products for harvesting, spreading, spraying and a large variety of agricultural implements. Currently Stara is present in all Brazilian regions and in all five continents, exporting to over 35 countries.