Kverneland transformer

Representatives of Kverneland held a training session for specialists of AgroCentreZakharovo in use of their Airseeder machine, which can perform as a seeder in a direct seeding function or as cultivator.

This Australian-designed machine is now also assembled at the Kverneland plant in Lipetsk.  Kverneland specialists say that Russian farmers give high praise to Airseeder as an undemanding system. Work in the Orenburg oblast has shown that the machine can operate in difficult conditions, offering high reliability and long service life.

Airseeder is a combined tool for tilling soil and direct seeding. The machine is multi-functional, i.e. it can easily turn from a seeder into a non-selective cultivator for tilling the soil down to 15 cm. The cultivator tynes are arranged in 5 rows, which ensures good passage of plant residues. The cultivator roll-on section has six rolls measuring 80 to 120 cm in width. Normally, a coverer is used for treating stubble and fallow land.

“Combined with the Airseeder bin (6,000-8,000 l) the cultivator is a highly efficient machine for direct seeding of grain crops and herbs with simultaneous introduction of fertilisers”, says Pyotr Trofimenko, equipment sales manager of the Chelyabinsk branch of AgroCentreZakharovo LLC. “The bin is divided into two containers, one in the rear for fertilisers, another in front for seeds. The seed and fertiliser batching varies from 2 to 400 kg per hectare”.

The Airseeder machine with an operating width of 9, 12, and 14 metres and the inter-row spacing of 180, 225 and 270 mm is fitted with three types of boots. They are a hoe boot, a disc furrow opener and a duckfoot. Due to its unique design, the Airseeder can operate in all regions of Russia.