Farm And Plant Vaderstad Blog Archive

Väderstad, one of the world’s leading companies in tillage, seeding, and planting, launches the unique ProDrain disc as an option for the Tempo and Proceed row units. ...

Väderstad will mark the world premiere of the new Seed Hawk 600-900C no-till seed drill at Agritechnica 2023 in Hannover next month; the seed drill is built on the Seed Hawk knife coulter concept and uses the Fenix III metering system. ...

Väderstad has added a liquid fertiliser option to its high-speed, trailed Tempo L 8-24 planter capable of handling a wide range of fertiliser rates without requiring nozzle changes. ...

Väderstad’s Tempo Planter is getting a new electronics system with automatic seed singulation, active hydraulic row unit downforce, and curve compensation to improve planting accuracy. ...

The new Extract product family will be part of Väderstad’s tillage product portfolio and will be sold under the Väderstad brand from the summer 2024. ...

The acquisition includes all intellectual property rights to Thyregod’s inter-row cultivator product area, including the TRV range and the Swingking. ...

“Proceed is an innovation that we very strongly believe will have a big impact for many UK farmers in the years to come,” says Väderstad UK Sales and Marketing Manager Andy Gamble. ...

The new 80-millimetre point is reinforced with one of the world’s hardest metals—wolfram carbide—and retains a high soil-searching ability much longer than standard points. ...

For the second year in a row, Proceed has won the Farm Machine award, previously known as “Machine of the year” in the Seeding category, and also won a silver medal for best innovation at SIMA. ...

The new disc design is meant for use in fields with heavy ground and/or crop residue. ...

Its new, heavy-duty tines are engineered to maintain their depth and soil-busting force in practically all conditions. ...

“The Väderstad Farm in Germany is a 50-hectare farm together with an 800 m2 machine hall for demonstrations and trainings,” says Nina Pettersson, Chief Agronomist at Väderstad. ...

The manufacturer says the axles reduce fuel consumption, optimise cut-out performance at shallow depths, and increase depth precision while reducing soil flow at deeper working depths. ...

The company has been giving farmers and dealers a first-hand look at the BioDrill 500 during an ongoing Väderstad Tour. ...

Field trials to date show Proceed can cut the seed rate of wheat by half and keep the same yield as modern seed drills. ...

Tempo planters are suitable for no-till, minimal-till, and conventional tillage applications; the newest member of the family delivers what Väderstad says is unmatched precision at double the speed of traditional planters. ...

Väderstad says it has sold 28,000 Rapid units around the globe; Rapid seed drills can prepare and level a seedbed, plant, and reconsolidate the soil all in one pass and in all types of conditions at a high working speed. ...

The Swedish manufacturer’s U.S. brand will encompass farm equipment from its recent acquisition of AGCO-AMITY JV LLC, aka Wil-Rich. ...

The manufacturer says placing the seed and a moderate amount of fertiliser in the same row provides quicker access to nutrients and speeds up emergence. ...

The Swedish manufacturer notes that it reinvests a large part of its sales each year to research and development to aid its efforts to simplify farmers’ daily work. ...

The trailed planter is available in 8- to 24-row models that support a 3-metre transport width; a new 32-row model with a 12-m working width will enter production in June to become the firm’s biggest planter. ...

The manufacturer notes that Spirit 600-900S and Rapid A 600-800C/J owners already using SeedEye to monitor for blockages can add seed-counting support to their existing systems. ...

Due to increased demand for its machinery, the firm is investing 125 million Swedish Krona into a new factory centre that’s expected to be finished in 2022 in Väderstad, Sweden. ...

Spaldings’ technical team partnered with material and manufacturing specialists on the items, conducting field testing and laser-based wear-pattern mapping on original OEM and nonoriginal parts. ...

The firm’s newest planter has 32 row units with 375 millimetres (15 inches) of row spacing, a 3,000-litre seed hopper, and comes with the Central Seed Fill feature as standard. ...