Is it a sprayer or is it a drill? | Undersowing maize | Unique 16.5m Agrifac | Rovers - Boekel
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2019
- New Dutch regulation forces farmers to plant cover crop when growing maize on sandy soils. This is to prevent leaching of nutrients. The cover has to be established before October 1st. As many maize crops won't be ready to harvest before this date a lot of farmers are now undersowing their maize crops. Half to late June is a perfect time, before the canopy is fully closed.
Dutch contractor Rovers - Boekel build a unique machine to do this job. They bought a used Agrifac ZA 3400 P sprayer and removed the tank, booms and pumps. Instead a Swincosem stainless hopper and metering system was installed. Berkers Techniek build a 16.5m boom with 11 floating drill elements. Splash plates spread the grass seed in between the rows and small tines harrow it in. This is sufficient on the sandy soils. The boom can be swapped over for a fertiliser spreader. The hopper then acts as an extra storage facility for granular fertiliser.
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Always interesting and unique! Thanks!
super vidéo 👍 à plus.
mooie film geworden Niels 👌🏼, ik zie dat het vliegen toch gelukt is 😉🔝
Ja gelukkig een plek waar het mocht.
Mooie video.
Love you agrifoto sir
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Please, include American measurement statics and European Metric Measurement Stats in your video explanations so it is easy to understand the capacities of equipment. Links to equipment manufacturers website would be cool too. In my opinion Europe Farm Equipment, technology and practices are years ahead of American Agricultural. The one thing I don't understand is why European Farmers till their soil so much like using aggressive seed bed preparation. I think that practice destroys soil structure. Signed a USA and European Farm Equipment Admior.
As far is I know they built it them self on top of an old agrifac sprayer
Fascinating video. Is the grass treated as a second crop? Does it get cut afterwards?
It can be cut afterwards but it will mainly be ploughed in to increase soil organic matter and return nutrients to the soil.
How is he going to open the door at the end of a workday? Anyway, it‘s an interesting way of undersowing, like it a lot!
He can tilt the booms upwards to get out of the cab.
Would have been a funny designflaw though..
If I understand correctly, this unit only plants, it doesn't fertilize?
Do you fertilize later? If so, is that fertilizer pass combined with fertilizing the corn?
What about herbicides?
Interesting video, I'm American and I very much enjoy seeing how European farmers do things.
Looks like a side dresser to me. Cultivating and fertilizing at the same time
Hello Mike, your correct this unit only plants grass seed in between the rows of corn. The corn will have had a good load of manure before field work took place. Then granular or liquid fertilizer will have been applied when establishing the crop. I am not sure if it will receive another pass with nitrogen later on in the season. A broad acre herbicide application has been carried out before interrow sowing.
@@manaftergodsown777 This machine can be used for spreading fertiliser but it is only drilling grass in between the rows here.
Why is this done and dose the grass fill in
This has to be done by law. The idea is that grass prevents the leaching from nutrients during the autumn after the maize has been harvested. On this sandy soil the nutrients wash out more easily than on clay soils.
That’s a really good idea thanks for the reply
Is this for 50 cm wide rows?
No this is for 75cm rows.