At an event near its Ronneburg site, Horsch introduced a host of new products and updates to its drill range.
The company has updated its Versa combination drill with a new 7 SW model, offering a 7.2m working width for controlled traffic farming operations set at 36m. An enlarged hopper of 6,300 litres has been fitted, split for seed and fertiliser.
The hopper is fitted in the style of a seed wagon, between the tractor and the power harrow, mounted on its own transport chassis, independent of the power harrow transport wheels. While this is certainly an impressive machine, the company states that it’s more likely to see the 7.2m power harrow combined with a front tank.
Into the working zone and a front tyre packer (700/50 R22.5) spreads the weight of the machine and reduces tracks ahead of the harrow, followed by an additional packer at the TurboDisc seed coulters spaced at 15cm. It’s rounded off with a high-mounted fan integrated into the hopper, with an optional oil cooler. The positioning of this minimises the amount of dirt that can be pulled in.
The culmination of upgrades made since 2024, a revamped Focus strip-till drill was on show from the company, with a newly designed plastic seed and fertiliser hopper offering a capacity of 5,000 litres. This can be bolstered by two 400-litre MiniDrill options, with one distributing product through either the fertiliser or seed coulters, or a rear-mounted version with baffles.
Cutting discs to handle cover crops or crop residues are now available as an option and can be retrofitted to existing models. The latest models have also been made shorter, with a redesigned three-point linkage at the rear to enable easy changeover of the rear implement while retaining a safe weight balance during transport.
Concluding the drilling updates was a new generation Pronto 9 DC, with an increased hopper capacity of 6,000 litres. As standard, it’s offered with the TurboDisc seed coulter, which can be swapped out for the new ParaDisc – a parallelogram-mounted coulter which Horsch states offers increased ground pressure to handle heavy or stony soils.
A further option is the PPF disc system, which places fertiliser below the seed via a separate coulter, rather than both products being applied simultaneously.
