The Deere XP monitor and others have a gage wheel pressure reading on their screens. That could act as a check on the Foresight system.

However the primary data sensing would come from the Foresight out front which would change the Rfx down pressure almost instantly as Joe points out in the video, not the gage wheel sensor which is old news as far as the row unit is concerned.

Our patented hydraulic system reacts far quicker than any feasible air system can so you are changing the row cleaner and row unit performance in response to what's coming and as it comes, not what's 50 or 100 ft or more behind you.

This real time response to the soil under the row unit is FAR more useful than worrying about the change in seed weight in the seed hopper on the few non-central fill planters sold these days and in the future. However there are settings in the cab that allow you to tailor the response range so it could be tweaked manually or automatically as the seed in a row unit mounted hopper is used.

Next question is "what about uplift force for 3-bu hoppers?"....if you really need to be less than the dead weight of a 3 bu hopper in your situation, add a JD double down force spring kit for not to much $$/row to each row mounted in the opposite direction from standard and it will provide upward counter balance force - as much as you want - and the RFX/Foresight system will provide whatever reasonable downforce you want, even with full 3 bu hoppers.

As Joe mentioned, there are far more important and useful things coming out. For one example, the ability to sense every row in real time.

I have been in the cab with customers who regularly no till corn into wheat stubble. It is not unusual to have ONE or TWO rows out of 24 or more running in a grain cart tire track. I have ridden with customers with other systems that think they have everything set perfectly - then get out of the cab and find a quarter mile of expensive corn seed on top of the ground because that one row was not instrumented with current existing technology.

Or even if it was an instrumented row, what if you are not always in that tire track - crossing it?? Current systems react after the fact and are not much help when there is a sudden change in soil conditions...even a wet spot as is common in some areas. An interesting time in this business!

Jim at Dawn