It was awaited by all the players wishing even more realism in the work of the seedlings, the ProSeed of Wopster has just arrived on the official modhub of Farming Simulator. It effectively completes the Guidance Steering (GPS guidance) with which it communicates to offer you the creation of fully automated milestones.
Before detailing the operation of ProSeed, it is necessary to recall what it is used for and how it improves realism in the seeding technique. When the time comes to sow your field, it is important to anticipate its long-term maintenance before arriving at the harvest. The stages of fertilization or phytosanitary treatments require going over the field several times with a spreader or a sprayer. These steps can therefore cause crops to be crushed (except on crops in rows spaced apart to allow the passage of fine wheels).
Basic in the game, just configure your tractor with narrow wheels and you will have no problem crushing crops, even very compact ones (wheat, barley, oats, etc.).
In real life, narrow wheels aren't the answer to everything and you're bound to have some crop crushing.
Based on this observation, it is therefore more economical not to simply not sow where the wheels of your tractors will pass. So you will always have tracks in which you can drive. These traces are called milestones. The ProSeed will therefore selectively cut off the nozzles of your seeder so as not to sow in what will become the tracks of your wheels.
Functioning
Contrary to Guidance Steering (GPS guidance) which must be purchased in store to equip your vehicles (€15000), ProSeed is active by default on all your seeders and planters. When you hitch one of these tools, you will see an additional control window appear on your screen.
This window can be moved by pressing the middle button of your mouse to make the cursor appear, then remaining pressed with the left button in the dark areas of the window and dragging it as you see fit.
In the example on the left, your seed drill has a working width of 6 meters and you want to create tramlines to work with 24 meter implements afterwards. Disregard point 11 which is only for example.
1 | In this title bar is your planter's statistics information. From left to right : – Instant amount of seeds consumed – The total area sown with this drill – The total area sown since the last reset – Estimation of the area that can be treated in 1 hour (with the speed and the seeder active). Does not take the drill hopper into account. – The reset button |
2 | Seeder/planter control mode selection
Automatic : Only works with the Guidance Steering (GPS guidance). Depending on the distance programmed in point 6 (the working width of your spreaders and sprayers) and the working width of the drill (point 5), the drill nozzles will automatically cut in the correct row (point 7) to create the tracks for your wheels. Rows are counted automatically using GPS. Semi-automatic : Same as for the automatic mode except that here the counting of the rows is not done using the GPS but when you raise the seeder. You can correct the working row at any time (point 7). Manuel : The creation of milestones is your responsibility depending on the row you are in. To activate tramlining, press CTRL (left) + R. |
3 | Activation or not of the additional fertilizer, for the seeders which are equipped with it. |
4 | Enabled ground texture change to help your visual control in the field. Attention, the tramlining is not checked here, it is done when you see the two red bars appear (point 11). However, we advise you to leave this feature active in order to visualize the unsown areas even more clearly in the field. |
5 | The working width of the drill or planter. This is automatically detected. |
6 | The working width of your future work tools (spreaders, sprayers). |
7 | The current row and the amount of row needed to reach the working width of your next implements. In the example below, you are sowing with a 6 meter implement, so it will take 4 rows of 6 meters (6×4=24) to cover the full width of the next implements. |
8 | Reduces the ProSeed window to take up less screen space. |
9 | Section break (left or right). Necessary in some cases to place the tramline correctly. |
10 | Audible warnings when the drill is raised and when tramline creation is active (i.e. when the drill nozzles are red at the wheel arches) |
Practical details
If you want to use proseed in your games, you should plan well in advance the tools that will be used in the maintenance of your fields. Ideally you should use spreaders and sprayers with the same working width if you want to use the same unsown wheel arches in your fields.
The ProSeed will automatically calculate the positioning of the flags (the unsown lanes) based on the width of your planter and the target width of your spreaders/sprayers. Thus, if your seeder has a working width of 3 meters and you will spread/spray over a width of 24 meters, you will need 8 passes (8×3=24) with your seeder to cover this width. The ProSeed will then show you the total number of rows, ie 8 in our example, as well as the active row.
The special case of half-rows
The ProSeed also allows you to perform a section cut (left or right) of your planter when you have an even number of rows to work.
Clearly, if the ratio of your seeder width to that of your spreaders/sprayers falls on an even number (example a 6 meter seeder and you are spreading over 12 meters, this gives us a ratio of 2), you will have to start your semi work by a half section.
For more details, we invite you to refer to the PDF below illustrating the different cases:
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is ProSeed compatible with Courseplay?
Yes in manual mode only. On the other hand, there will be no tramlining. - What happens if I pass the roller just after sowing?
The roller will erase the traces of staking but without consequence because the zone not being sown there will be no crop which will grow in the later stages of growth