17 December 2014

Precision agriculture "Made in Spain"

For last weeks, we have been speaking about topics which were proposed by our followers... at this moment in time, we came back to speak about our job. As you can see, we continue with sowing tasks (we are sowing peas at this time) and we would like to highlight the "made in Spain" tools: the Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill and Cerea; an automated steering system guided by GPS. Unfortunately, there are no tractors factory in Spain​.​

According to the aim and title of this post, we’ll speak about precision agriculture but we want to highlight it is carried out with a tool what are manufactured in our country, Spain. We have nothing against machinery from other countries ... on the contrary, we think they are all fantastic but in many cases it is not necessary that Spanish farmers spend significant amounts of money to buy an imported implement, e.g. a seed drill or chissel from Germany, England or France because the national machinery is fantastic... on this way, our Solá seed drill gives us outstanding performances.

Regarding the assisted steering system we use, it is developed in Spain so the price is more competitive over another opponent products (we would like to refer to other visual guidance system, that is designed for farmers who choose a really simple system) like our friend company called Agroguía whose products were tested by us few months ago as you can see in this post). As these companies, we could talk about many more Spanish factories like Gascón Internacional, Bellota Agrisolutions, Sembradoras Gil, Arcusin, Ovlac, Tasias,... which perform a great job and a fantastic machinery.


Versión en español.


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Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600
Cerea autosteer system & Solá Neumasem 799 seed drill & Deutz-Fahr Agrotron m600


10 December 2014

Another alternative crop: Field beans

​Today, we continue with usual sowing tasks in our area and in Spain in general for these months. Once more time, our friend Espejo (from Chinchón) sent us some pictures… this time he had been sowing ​field beans. This crop is unknown for us because we had never sowed it… in fact, we annually sow broad beans (as you can see in this post) to eat them the best recipe is cooking them with ham. In this case, their variety is for feed.

As you will see, he uses a monogram ​seeder machine with 4 rows by Monosem firm; this machine is normally used for so​wing corn. According to his explanations, they have sowed ​field beans (whose fruit is smaller than broad beans) to enable the combine harvester performing a good job and to avoid that the harvester break them. In his area, the farmers gave up sowing them due to the old combine​s broke lots of collected fruits… he hopes not having these problems currently. This plant doesn’t suffer so much with the freeze in the winter mornings, and then this crop is a good option for cold areas.

Regarding the sowing task, the used dose is 130kg/ha sowed with a distance of 72.5cm x 12cm. The Manosem machine works really fine, and it can reach a working speed of about 5km/h. In the following pictures, after the sowing tasks, they use a discs roller to help them with the germination.


Versión en español.