Improve planter performance and population without replacing your current machine.
The John Deere MaxEmerge™ Row Unit upgrades your existing planter, improving plant population and seed spacing accuracy. With its new technology and improved design, users can achieve greater precision and greater curve performance on the inner and outer rows of your farm. Optimizing your planting efforts can avoid input waste, maximize yield potential, eliminate shafts and drivelines, simplify planter maintenance, and more. Here, we outline exactly what makes the John Deere MaxEmerge™ a versatile upgrade option for your planter
What Is MaxEmerge™, and How Does It Work?
The John Deere MaxEmerge™ Row Units are a used planter upgrade kit™ that provides enhanced performance, improved productivity, and extra precision while providing additional profitability to the grower's bottom line throughout the planting season. Its reimagined design makes plant population and seed spacing accuracy the first priority, providing users with better access to row unit components, eliminating shafts and drivelines, and simplifying planter maintenance.
John Deere MaxEmerge™ 5 Row Units
The John Deere MaxEmerge™ 5 is a versatile row unit option, offering optimal seed population to drive yield potential. This reimagined row unit not only enhances seed planting accuracy but ensures improved planting productivity. Its redesigned mini-hopper gives users a smooth and continuous seed flow, along with an improved doubles eliminator, and new vacuum air source. In addition, the John Deere MaxEmerge™ 5 easily handles a wide range of seed sizes and shapes for precise planting to ensure you receive the full value of each seed, even when planting on rolling terrain or side hills. Other key features include:
- Improved numbered dial knob
- Easier meter access for quicker changeover between crops
- Gauge wheel arm pivot to prevent premature wear
- Ductile iron shank
- RowCommand™ individual-row control
- Chemical application option
John Deere MaxEmerge™ 5e Row Units
The John Deere MaxEmerge™ 5e offers growers more agromatic benefits with its singular electric drive that improves plant population and seed spacing accuracy. The electric motor eliminates the need for shafts and drivelines, improving access to row unit components and simplifying planter maintenance. In addition, the improved curve performance of the outer and inner rows helps eliminate a potential yield loss of 1-2% from traditional seed spacing and population inaccuracies. Other key features include:
- Improved population accuracy on curves
- Enables precise spacing with its row-by-row shutoff feature
- More accurate planting to variable rate prescription
- Electric drive meter eliminates chatter of typical mechanical drives
- Largest approved list of crops planted
- Can be easily upgraded to ExactEmerge™ row unit
How John Deere MaxEmerge™ Upgrades Planter Productivity
Although every grower is different, each has the same goal in mind — maximizing yield potential. The John Deere MaxEmerge™ features improvements to make that possible. By providing users with the ability to deliver desired plant population, achieve even emergence, provide accurate planting spacing, and make the most of the planting window, MaxEmerge™ offers unmatched productivity without compromising seed-spacing accuracy.
John Deere MaxEmerge™ Key Features & Specs
The John Deere MaxEmerge™ was built on the principles of providing unmatched agromatic performance without compromising seed placement accuracy. Here are some of the key specs and features of the John Deere MaxEmerge™ that make this possible.
Easy Adjust Row Cleaners
No more climbing under your planter to make changes to your row units. MaxEmerge™ features three preset heights to help remove residue from the seed trench with just the touch of a button.
Optional Individual Row Hydraulic Downforce (IRHD)
The Individual Row Hydraulic Downforce (IRHD) guarantees consistent planting depth and precise seed-to-soil contact, even in rough terrains and quickly changing field conditions. With a downforce up to 5 times per second, the IRHD has the ability to make a 100-pound adjustment in less than 1 second. Additionally, with its built-in accumulator, you’ll experience less shock out of your row unit throughout your entire ride. Other benefits of the Individual Row Hydraulic Downforce include:
- 9% higher grain yield potential
- Guarantees uniform seed depth
- Optimal seed-to-soil contact
- Features an integrated accumulator to help protect row units from shock
Enhanced Mini-Hopper
The improved mini-hopper design features a straight entry hose directly from the CCS tank, promoting greater seed flow and reducing potential plugging. In addition, this reimagined design allows users to maintain target population on slopes up to 14 degrees.
Clean Air Vacuum
With the new design of the mini-hopper, vacuum air now enters directly from the CCS tank, allowing only clean air to enter and ensuring the seed meter avoids any debris.
Ductile Iron Shank
The improved iron shank adds strength to each row unit, making it possible to handle no-till and rocky conditions without disrupting the planting experience.
Optional Pneumatic Closing Wheels
MaxEmerge™ features pneumatic closing wheels that adjust in seconds. These wheels provide consistent trench closing in rough field conditions so you can get the most out of your planter and operation.
Level Up Your Planter with John Deere MaxEmerge™
Get the advantages of the latest planter technology without replacing your current planter. The John Deere MaxEmerge™ not only improves seed precision, helps reduce risk, and most importantly, increases yield, but it also gives users the precision necessary to achieve uniform emergence and plant with accuracy each and every time.
Ready to level up your existing planter? Contact your local to ask about MaxEmerge™ Row Units from John Deere.