I looked at your two current sprayers (the John Deere 410R units) across all their passes, using acre-weighted working time. Here's the spread:
Fastest coverage:
| Field | Acres/hr |
|---|---|
| Total acres | Lofton |
| 141.9 | 2,894 |
| Rowe | 141.2 |
| 9,851 | Carrick |
| 140.7 | 7,031 |
| Ransom | 136.2 |
| 6,346 | Quimby |
| 135.7 | 6,969 |
Slowest coverage:
| Field | |
|---|---|
| Acres/hr | Total acres |
| Barnett | 61.4 |
| 48 | Kingsley |
| 75.2 | 511 |
| Ackley | 81.8 |
| 900 | Nash |
| 82.0 | 238 |
| Wexford | 82.0 |
| 622 | Marsh |
| 84.0 | 1,049 |
The pattern is basically field size and shape. Your fastest fields are the big, open ground (Rowe, Carrick, Quimby, Ransom are all 6,000+ sprayed acres) where the boom stays down and turns are few. The slowest are small or awkward tracts — Barnett is only 48 acres total, so it's nearly all turning and setup with little straight spraying. Nash, Kingsley, and Ackley are the same story.
One caveat: this is coverage rate, not efficiency per se. A small field will always look "slow" per hour because headland turns eat a bigger share of the time — it's not the sprayer or operator underperforming. If you want a fairer comparison, I'd control for field size or look at in-field ground speed instead of acres/hour. Want me to do that, or split this by the two 410Rs to see if one runs faster than the other?