21 April 2015

Sowing sugar beet with Maschio Bros.

Last week, we spoke about the choice between performing farm jobs with an outsourcing company and with our own machinery. On this occasion,​ we are going to show an example about an outsourcing company carrying out sowing tasks of sugar beet in Magazos (Ávila) working with a Maschio Gaspardo pneumatic precision planter with hydraulic folding frame. The owner of this company told us they have a lot of work with sugar beet... it is a very specialized crop. They sow about 400ha (sugar beet, corn and sunflowers) for farmers of this area, e.g., their Fendt worked about 700 hours during the last year in sugar beet harvesting jobs

In these area, farmers usually have small  pneumatic precision planters (Monosem or Solá, for example) of 7 rows or less... this outsourcing company uses one of 12 rows, which allows them to sow about 20 ha/day (the working speed is over 4 km/h). Pneumatic precision planters are normally too expensive, so farmers have to think about its amortization. On the other hand, this outsourcing company only charges 45 €/ha for this job... What option is the best for you?

As our friend Carlos said, and as you can see in our pictures, the sowing accuracy is very high... the seed are put on the soil at 17cm (rows are at 50cm) and the dose used is of 110,000 plants per hectare. We think it is not possible to sow this crop on the other way... the box of Danicia KWS seed (it is the variety used in this field) has 100,000 plants and the price per hectare is of 400€.

Maschio Gaspardo company is going to be in the next edition of Demoagro on 27th, 28th and 29th of May... there, we will be able to test this seed drill and all its produtcs. We invite you to go.


Versión en español.

Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo
Sowing Sugar beet with Maschio Gaspardo

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