Pressure is on

Following on from last month’s front hopper and fertiliser accuracy test, here our attention is on the planters as we assess their seed singling and placement accuracy along with their technical differences and any special features. The contenders are from Amazone, Horsch, Kverneland and Väderstad.

Sönke Schulz

Firstly, a few technical differences between the Precea 6000-2FCC (Amazone), Maestro 9RX (Horsch), Optima F8 X 75 (Kverneland) and TPV 8WSX (Väderstad). Kverneland, for example, is the only one here to use parallel folding, so the seeder units remain horizontal when in their transport position; the other three machines fold vertically. This has pros and cons, as the Optima never has any seeds stuck in the hopper lids and it can be stored in its folded position — without the need for a separate frame as with Amazone. But the frame designs of the Maestro, Precea and Tempo are better suited to different row widths — Amazone and Väderstad, for instance, also offer nine-row models with 75cm row widths, just like the Horsch submitted for this comparison test. The transport…

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