​For fertilizer or herbicide... Tecnis: a good option

Last year, we published a post about the twin brothers César and Raúl fertilizing and weeding out outsourced jobs. On this occasion, they sent us some pictures about their new Tecnoma Tecnis 4500 sprayer. It has a working width of 28 meters and it is absolutely managed by computer and GPS system... the sprayer is pretty nice.

As you can see in our pictures, they have a front tank of 1,500 litters what offers them a large autonomy (6,000 litters), so they can work large fields without refilling the sprayer. When they work with LAC 6-10-4 fertilizer and a doses of 258 l/ha (300kg), the autonomy is of 23ha. When they work with herbicide (200 l/ha), the autonomy is of 30ha. Also, the sprayer has installed an automatic section control system by GPS but it is not still integrated with the Trimble automatic steering system that is installed on their Massey Ferguson 6485 (you can see in their pictures, there are two GPS receivers)... they will have to improve these configuration.

We recommend you to visit the next edition of Demoagro farm fair in May... you will be able to test these sprayers on the field.

Versión en español.

Joaquín Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)

​Agraria 2015. Farm fair in Valladolid

In the last week, Agraria was held its fourth edition in the Feria de Valladolid enclosure (Valladolid city). This farm show takes place biennially and it alternates in February with FIMA (the most important farm fair in Spain). There were 252 exhibitors (local, national and international brands) who deployed their machinery on 32,000 m2 (2,000m2 more than the previous edition) divided into four pavilions of enclosure and outdoor exhibitions. There were some interesting technical talks and a contest about innovative machines where 11 brands competed.

Our friend Espejo went to visit the farm fair and he sent us a few pictures you can find below... Thank you very much again!! As he told us, the day trip was very interesting and he highlights the John Deere stand as the best. He could see other novelties​ ​like the new Kubota M7 001, the new Claas Atos tractor manufactured by Same Deutz-Fahr Group and the new John Deere 6R Series (they works using ad​Blue). Gascón Internacional, Amazone, Krone and Horsch stands were nice to visit too. The JCB Fastrac tractor and the John Deere T550 combine were the most attractive.

Espejo is a garlic farmer in the Tajuña river area, so he found a fantastic pneumatic planter of the French Erme brand... he would like to see it working on the field because the accuracy offered is bigger than other planters.

As always, there are many things to be improved because all the tractors had locked their doors so he couldn't go into their cab to see their dashboards; another negative point was that the olive tree machinery and vineyard machinery showed were minimum.

We will try to attend the next edition in two years, but before that, we could see these good machinery working on the field in the important farm fair called Demoagro 2015 in May... we will be there!

You can see more pictures in Agrosdemeter blog and Agraria official website.

Versión en español.

Joaquín Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)