High speed precision planter also lays film in one pass

The Techni-Plant FL was simply on a wish-list in October 2014 when OneCrop, a start-up film technology company, approached local manufacturer Norseman to develop a precision planter that could also lay film on a commercially viable broadacre scale. The brief was to build a high-speed planter that could also cover the seed row with a […]

A-maize-ing planting

Case IH has helped smash the world record for the area of maize planted in 24 hours, using a Magnum 380 CVX tractor with a 16-row Väderstad Tempo L planter to cover 502.05 hectares, breaking the previous record of 448.29 hectares. Source: AFDJ eNews Working in two fields on a farm in western Hungary, the combination […]