Horsch will bring a series of machines focused on soil health to Cereals, including shallow and ultra-shallow cultivators, and min-till, strip-till and direct drills.
One of the highlights will be the 12m Avatar drill, which is now available with 25cm row spacings.
“The 25cm row spacing is proving popular with the very successful 12m Avatar model. Customers are reporting little to no detriment in yield in most crops, particularly in winter crops, yet lower input costs,” highlights Stephen Burcham, general manager at Horsch UK.
Wright’s Agriculture made the shift to 25cm spacings and has been happy with the results. “We wanted a 12m drill with discs and it needed to have the flexibility to work in varied conditions. We had reservations about the 25cm row spacings compared with our 12.5cm spacing on our previous 8m drills,” says Eric Wright.
“We wanted to plant all cereal and broad-leaved crops with the drill, although the crops look widely spaced when they first emerge, you can’t tell the difference by harvest. The crops had room to grow and because we’re only disturbing half the land we were before, we needed far less herbicide.”
Models from 8m up to 12m are available with the new spacings, as well as a triple tank system with a capacity of 6,400 litres.
Disc or tine
In addition to the Avatar, the company will also showcase the Sprinter 12.25 SC tine drill, with a 6,300-litre double tank, with a triple tank soon to be available. A MiniDrill can also be fitted to facilitate a third product being applied.
Tines are pre-stressed to 180kg and can be retracted for transport. The high clearance between the frame and the soil makes the machine ideal for direct or mulch seeding, and each tine is individually depth controlled.
6m widths, wide row spacings
Rounding out the drill offering is the 6m variants of both the Avatar and Sprinter machines, combined with a Partner FT front tank and offered with row spacings of 25cm or 30cm for working in high levels of residue.