Kuhn Farm Machinery will demonstrate the Striger strip tillage machine at this year’s Tillage Live event in Gloucestershire on September 10. With the potential to deliver significant cost savings and the opportunity to achieve yield advances – especially under difficult conditions when extremes of weather can make the establishment of crops a real challenge – the latest strip tillage techniques are being met with increasing levels of interest from maize and oilseed rape growers.
The company will be showing visitors how this cultivation and seeding machine can improve crop establishment while also reducing diesel usage and saving precious time during the busy cultivation and seeding seasons.
“By only cultivating the ground into which crops are sown and leaving the space between each row of seeds fallow, strip tillage techniques can reduce diesel usage by up to 80 per cent compared to traditional ploughing techniques, or by 50 per cent compared to normal min-till cultivation,” Kuhn’s UK sales manager, Duncan McLeish, said. “Strip tillage can also reduce the time spent cultivating by up to 70 per cent compared to ploughing and 50 pe rcent compared to min-till.”
Kuhn’s Striger strip tillage machine cultivates a narrow strip of soil into which seed can be directly drilled. It uses a row of opening discs to cut through stubble and surface residue which is then removed by a star-shaped trash remover. A tine, double-discs and tamping wheel follow to prepare the perfect seedbed, either side of which sits a protective layer of surface mulch.
The Striger is available in six- to 12-row versions on either a 4.4m or 6.0m folding frame and as four- or six-row versions on a 3.0m frame, with the working components of each row adjustable from 45cm to 80cm to suit field conditions and to match seed drills such as Kuhn’s Maxima 2 precision drill.
For more information visit: www.kuhn.co.uk.
