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Grundy Agricultural cultivation event is an overwhelming success
Planning an autumn cultivation event has always inherent risks; too dry and everybody is combining and attendance is poor, too late and everybody has moved on and they are all busy cultivating themselves. Grundy Agricultural’s recent event avoided both those pitfalls. With overnight rain and a poor forecast on the day, farmers turned out in droves to see an impressive display of tractors, ploughs and min-till cultivators & drills. There was even an odd sprayer and spreader thrown in for good measure! back to Out and about with Amazone
And it wasn’t just the bacon rolls that drew them in; with a chance to have a go for yourself, the full range of Deutz tractors were on demonstration and, on the back, supporting acts from Dowdeswell plouhgs, Bomford hedgecutters and mulchers plus both min-till kit and drills from Amazone. Working directly into rape stubble with some laid areas of crop in the tramlines needing some serious mulching and mixing, the Catros+ TS 4m folding compact discs harrow with transport bogey axle trundled along nicely at 16 km/h moving the complete soil horizon at a depth of 3” over the full working width. The finish left was ideal for greening up the stubble for a subsequent spray off with glyphosate. For a later, second pass, after the benefits of the stale seedbed have been maximised, the Cenius mulch cultivator on demo proved to be the ideal tool. With a maximum working depth of around 30cm, the three rows of tines followed by a row of levelling discs and a depth /consolidation roller, it did the perfect mixing and loosening job, even at speeds of up to 10 mph. The Cenius 3002 Special on show was fitted with shearbolt leg protection and tandem cage rollers for a smooth, fine surface finish ideal for drilling into.
And so, on the drilling front, the new Generation II AD-P Special with RDS-System, which is the combination of wedge ring roller, RoTeC Control single disc coulters, with Control 10 depth limiters, followed by an Exact following harrow was put through its paces. The combination is designed to consolidate the seedbed in strips, each strip directly before the coulter, to target the consolidation to the seed so that seed placement depth is optimised and seed/soil contact is increased to prevent poor germination and potential slug problems later. The RoTeC Control coulter coping with the laid rape stubble with alacrity.
Thanks goes to David Grundy and his team for an excellently organised event and we look forward to working with them again in the future.