How to choose a seeder?

How to choose a seeder?

Many farmers are starting to search for tillage and sowing machines by reviewing catalogs for any technique. So they limit their research to models that are advertised, and the rest, whether better, are simply ignored. We will attempt to give you the necessary information on the topic.

To make an adequate choice, you need to collect as much information as possible about the technique you have stopped. Find a vendor who can give you the best possible advice. At Agrotehniki & Ko. we are happy to help customers with whatever they need. Each farmer chooses according to his financial capabilities, characteristics of the terrain, etc., but the most important are the following criteria:

- The manufacturer's warranty for the details of heavy workloads during the work process;

- Easy access to these details;

- Easy replacement of worn or broken parts;

- Minimum amount of detail requiring lubrication;

- For fuel economy, the features of the construction must be supported;

- The work organs must be as safe as possible for damage;

Along with this, the machine has to be tailored to the needs of the farm (on working width and aggregation with available tractors) to be simple an  

CRITERIA FOR GOOD SEEDERS:

- easy but precise and flexible adjustment of seeding apparatus;

- accurate and uniform sowing the required depth, even with large amounts of crop residues and poorly aligned field;

- equally well suited to both cereal and other crops;

- presence in the supplier of a sufficiently large spare parts warehouse, which provides quick repair of the drill on the field.

A decisive condition for the purchase of equipment is the reputation of its seller (How will service the machine, how rapidly and completely conduct repairs, how much it will cost spare parts, etc.). Criterion in which Agrotehniki and Ko. are impeccable and extremely reliable!

THE PRICE OF THE MACHINE

Sometimes the harvesters, the cultivators, the seed drills are quite expensive, but quite often the very expensive but easy-to-use technique is paid even for just one season.

Every farmer is aware that the expensive equipment itself is not a solution. It is necessary to have trained cadres that can work seamlessly with it. For this reason, it is still preferable to choose a machine that is easy to service. Quite often it is - profitable to buy additional equipment, providing easy setup of the machine, saving you from staff training and repairs.  At the same time it would be nice if the drill is equipped with devices for precision farming - GPS (automatic control and automatic adjustment of sowing depending on sowing rate and type of soil), which also reduces the impact of human factors on the quality of work of the machine.

The already available machine park must be taken into consideration. It is important to know the crop rotation and to select the correct working width. Evaluate the productivity of the machine in view of specific soil-climatic and other conditions. It is very important to bring reality to your wishes. Do not put insurmountable tasks ahead of your seed drill.

To get quality plants carefully monitor the quality of sowing, pay attention to the depth of the seed and the possibility for cutting crop residues. If quality crops are obtained, plant protection products and fertilizers are properly used.

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR - THE QUALITY OF THE SEED

It is important that the seed drill does not become clogged and that it can provide accurate seeding of the required depth. For that purpose, it must be sufficiently heavy and very reliable. Field conditions negatively affect every technique - dust, stones, all kinds of obstacles. Therefore, the reliability of the supplier, the availability of a spare parts base, and the ability to repair the seed drill directly in the field must always be taken into account.

Regarding the use of universal machine that can seed as cereals and other crops,, the opinions of the equipment manufacturers are diferent. But they agree that seeders of this type are a compromise between the value of the technique and the quality of sowing. The narrower the specialization of the seed drill, the better the sowing of the chosen technology and culture.

COMMENTS BY EXPERTS

MASCHIO – GASPARDO : 

As the favorable sowing times have been significantly reduced in recent years, the drill strength and uniformity of sowing are the first to come. Only by observing these conditions the farmer can obtain even yields within optimal timeframes. The ability to select a seed drill with different types of seed drills for different types of crops, different working widths, mechanical or pneumatic - all this helps to select the optimal sowing combination model. Our company has been producing sowing machines for more than 170 years, taking all these criteria into account.

HATZENBICHLER:

Each agricultural machine must be as close as possible to the practical requirements of farmers, taking into account the nuances of growing crops. The following basic principles are taken into account when developing the Hatzenbichler machines: the technique should work faster, easier and be as healthy as possible in field work; it must strictly control sowing, have easy settings, be manageable.

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