16 November 2011

Agritechnica 2011

My friend Timo who is Finnish visited Agritechnica farm fair last weekend. He sent me a few pictures about that.  

I think Agritechnica farm fair is the best and the biggest farm fair in Europe. You can see an extraordinary variety of machinery and last developments and innovations.































































































































































































































































15 November 2011

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