The cultivator, purchased last year to replace a power harrow, has not only been key to creating a good seedbed, but also allowed drilling operations to start more quickly than with the power harrow, says Mr Thompson.
As grain harvesters capture and sort weed seeds the grain harvesting process presents an excellent opportunity to intercept and destroy weed seeds by damaging them as they exit the grain harvester in the chaff fraction.
At first glance, the wheat growing environments of the UK and Kazakhstan could not be more different.
The 2018 Russian wheat harvest stood at 54.6MT (million tonnes) from 16.2Mha (million hectares) compared with 60.5MT from 14.5MHa at the same date last year, Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture reported on 22 August.
Autonomous farm machinery created as part of the project entitled ‘Hands Free Hectare’ successfully tended and harvested the 2017 crop of spring barley, and at the time of writing, the 2018 crop of winter-sown wheat is being harvested.
The air sprayer, which uses air as a medium to create fine droplets, unlike conventional hydraulic sprayers and airassisted sprayers, is proving a hit with potato growers, according to Mr Madsen.
Tillage plays a primary role in loosening and aerating aerates the top level of soil to facilitate planting the crop, says Mr Pitt.
Machinery for cultivating and harvesting cereals, legumes, as well as sunflower, maize, rapeseed and other oil crops and spices are the main focus for the company, says Mr Syrovatka.
A combine draper header perfectly adapted for the European market has been developed thanks to more than six years of research by the Canadian-based harvester specialist company, reveals Mr von Riedesel.
Earthworms can dramatically alter soil structure, water movement, nutrient dynamics, and plant growth.