Agrotron, Cleris, Cerea and 8-24-8 Fertilizer

During these days we are fertilizing the fields where we are going to sow barley in a few days. Fortunately, this autumn is being more rainy than average, so there is a great atmosphere between farmers in our area... despite fertilizer prices are excessively high. A lot of farmers are using organic fertilizers instead of mineral fertilizers. We continue using mineral fertilizers (at this time, we use Medifer 8-24-8 fertilizer at 250kg/he) but we should pay attention to comments from farmers who have used organic fertilizers because the difference in price is notable.

As you can see in our pictures, the centrifugal broadcaster used by us is a Cleris-07 AD 6,000... which is a good spreader. The Agrotron M600 works very fine and it allows us to spread about 9,000kg of fertilizer in a day without hurry. The working width used with this fertilizer is about 16m, so Cerea manual guidance system works perfectly and it makes our task easy. Also, we have to highlight that Agrotron M600 only spent a quarter of its tank of diesel, working at 1,500 r.p.m. of engine, 520 r.p.m. of P.T.O. and a working speed of 9.9 km/h... the Deutz engine again shows it has a lower level of consumption.

After that, and when we will be able to continue working because when we finished fertilizing it rained about 40mm. Then, we have to bury fertilizer with a fast work of chisel plough and we have to begin to sow cereals and pulse vegetables in November.

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Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)

Garlic begins: fertilizing!!

At this time, we have finished sowing cereals and the following task is sowing garlic, although before that, we must fertilize appropriately the fields. So, we have been pulling the first fertilizers with the following features:

• 15% Nitrogen (N)
• 15% Posphorus (P) 
• 15% Potassium-KNO3 (KNO3)

This activity allows the garlic to grow with total warranty, however during their life we have to continue fertilizing but we will talk about this item when the time comes. We have used about 400 kg/ha of this fertilizer. I think it is a good fertilizing!

We have used Cleris AD 4000 fertilizer spreader that has a hopper volume of 3,55 m3 (loading capacity about 4.300kg). Sometimes we have used Cleris AD 6000 fertilizer spreader which is more modern but with a similar performance. The big difference is it has a hopper volume of 5,25 m3 (loading capacity of 6.300kg). Other key features are: reinforced gearbox, easy and simple adjustment, stainless steel spreading discs, robust and reliable construction, independent hydraulic opening and closing, working width from 10m to 18m. These fertilizer spreaders are well know in my area, they work very fine and allow us to work a long time without uploading them again. Our Agrotron 85 can work very easily with them and we can get a working speed of 12 km/h without problems and with a PTO configuration of 540 r.p.m.

You can watch two videos from here: Video 1    Video 2

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)