Seedbed preparation

Afther the first autumn rains, during November and December, the Spanish farmers, especially in La Mancha, are preparing the seedbed to sow cereals and legumes. These tasks are very stressful because these days are very short therefore we have to work really hard from sunrise to sunset. Another possible problem is it rains frequently and we cannot work on the fields all the time.

As you can see in our pictures, we use our JD 5720 with Amazone ZA-X Perfect Centrifugal Broadcaster to spread fertilizer at working width of 18 m. We are spreading NPK 12-24-12 fertilizer and we are using about 200kg/ha. After that, we harrow our fields to bury fertilizer, this is made,finally, to prepare the soil to sow.

You can see a video from here: Video

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)

Tecnología en Campo. Same Deutz-Fahr Group Show

Last Tuestday Same Deutz-Fahr Group celebrated its annual farm show. This time, it was placed in a small Village called "Fuentes de Ebro" in Zaragoza.

Firstly, I would like to thank Same Deutz-Fahr Group about the big opportunity they gave us to test their tractors in the field and without restrictions or complex. Also, I would like to express gratitude them for their fantastic organization in this event, the wonderful food and drinks (paella was exquisite and you could have every free beverage during the whole day) and definitely for their attention with customer as us (I think we were there about 5,000 farmers) who like seeing Deutz-Fahr trends and developments.

After that, I am going to talk about our impressions about some models which we could test: regarding TTV transmission, we have to say there is a big variety of configurations where you can select which is more appropriate for you, even they can work at 1,200 r.p.m with working speed at 10km/h. We could test it with the Agrotron 630TTV. This tractor was provided with iMonitor, which offers detailed information about each part of the tractor. It even has a mini camera to watch the tool on iMonitor (I think it is not very useful).

Other tractor we could test was the Agrotron 430TTV. This tractor used arotary harrow and with the PTO mode we could test the engine speed was being constant despite of changing the working speed. I think it is a tractor very versatile and very comfortable to work with.

I have to highlight, I was impressed with smoothness of Agrofarm 430TTV. It has an important agility in maneuvers and it has an impressive smoothness in its driving. I think I like this ona best/ I think it is my favourite.

With respect the biggest tractors, the Agrotron X710 and Agrotron X720, we couldn't test them but we could see them working without problems despite of being used with a big plough.

About negative things, there were not any tractor with assisted steering system by GPS. I think it is an important trend and they should had one.Then, I wanted to test one of them.

Finaly, I need to remark the big recovery the Deutz engines shows to achieve high engine speed; it is remarkable in models with normal transmission. We worked with Agrotron M600 and M650 and we had a working speed of 13km/h and 1,800 r.p.m. After that, we could go down the engine speed at 1,300 r.p.m during a few seconds and we could go back to get to 2,000 r.p.m without problems.

Regarding the tools, I think we used the best brands and models in the market: Amazone, Lemken, Kverneland, Khun,.... 

Thanks Same Deutz-Farh Group.

You can see our video from here: Video1

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)