Väderstad will launch its new innovative Tempo WideLining system at Agritechnica 2019, with the technology being available on Tempo V 6-12 drills from the second half of 2020. It’s the world’s first tramlining system that enables farmers to spread liquid manure in a standing silage maize crop, without compromising yield potential.
Instead of shutting off row units to create tramlines, WideLining automatically changes the row spacing on the planter hydraulically to create two 1,050mm tyre tracks, thereby ensuring all row units plant at full capacity. The row spacing between the tyre tracks will go from 750-600mm.
WideLining is fully automatic and integrated in the iPad-based control system Väderstad E-Control. When the function is activated, the machine will calculate the field and automatically adjust the row units to create tramlines based on the working width of the liquid manure spreader.
In practise, when establishing silage maize with an eight-row planter and using a slurry tanker with 18m working width, the drill should plant 8.3 per cent more seeds in the field compared to alternative technologies available on the market.
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