More fertilizer: It’s time for garlic

At this time of year, after the coldest of the winter days have passed, the weather becomes warm and the daylight hours are extended, garlic plants need to continue growing, for this reason we have to fertilize and water them. From now, they mainly need water and heat.

In this case we used Medifer Blue Saturno fertilizer, which has the following composition: NPK: 21-10-10. As you can see in our pictures, this time the fertilizer was in small bags, so we had to do a strong work to provide our two Amazone Spreader with the fertilizer. These centrifugal broadcaster spreaders are the best to fertilize garlic because the fertilizer needs been spread perfectly and regular on our field.

The selected dose was 210kg/ha. It’s  quite posible, we will have to fertilize again, but if it is necessary the garlic will warn us after a few days after being watered.

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)

The first real work with our new Deutz-Fahr Agrotron M600

As the soil is wet, we have to continue preparing our fields to sow sunflowers, this is the following task after the discs ploughing performed in January. Fortunately, in my area it rained so we can to restart sunflower works. It was the first real work we did with our new Deutz-Fahr Agrotron M600 and the sensations were incredible.

We extended our cultichissel and we use it with 19 rows and a working width of 4.95m. The working speed was about 7,3km/h and the engine speed was at 1,600 r.p.m. The worked field was about 3.7he/hour. I think it is an excellent average.

Our Agrotron M600 works very fine with Gil chultichissel CHM-19B and it responds like a Swiss Watch when the tool requires more power. The first sensations are excellent whose the following features are remarkable:

•  If we consider the carried out work and the time required, the consumption is very low.
•  Engine speed memorizer is great and it is very confortable to work.
•  Mecanical suspension in cab and front axle hydro-pneumatic suspension together work very fine and they are really confortable.
•  The clutch works very soft.
•  We can high speed in transport on the road.
•  The control of ZF Lifting force rear is really sensitive and convenient.

We liked our first Agrotron M600 experience, that was the first of a large story, or at least, we expect that.

You can see a new video from our YouTube channel.

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)