Eleven cameras.
One hundred twenty feet.
Only the weeds get wet.
Chuck Merja farms out of Dutton, Montana. FarmDefender has run his 120-foot boom, nozzle by nozzle, since July 2026.
The challenge
Montana dryland: a short spray window, a long list of acres. Broadcast is simple, but most of it lands on bare ground.
Chuck had the scale and per-nozzle hardware on his boom. He lacked the part that decides which nozzles open.
The solution
Eleven cameras, detection on the machine, no cloud or cell signal. Each nozzle gets its command over the target.
We stood on the boom for the first live missions in July 2026. Eleven of eleven cameras up.
A camera on every band, not a sample.
The shortcut is covering part of the boom and inferring the rest. Outside that strip, the nozzles are guessing.
Watching every band at 120 feet takes eleven cameras. If one goes down, that band fails safe to spraying and the operator knows.
What deployed
FD-120 spot spray
Eleven cameras across a 120-foot boom, nozzles commanded individually.
Runs the existing nozzle control
Commands the CapstanAg PinPoint III system already on the sprayer. No new plumbing or terminal; broadcast still available.
Built, installed, commissioned by FarmTech
Assembled in Montana, brought up in the field. Not shipped in a box.
How wide is your boom?
It depends on what you spray and how empty the ground is. Tell us both for a straight number.