Favourites of the season

On the eve of the new season, the AGCO Corporation held a training session in Challenger seeding and tilling equipment for AgroCentre specialists.

As Aleksey Porokhin, sales manager of the Penza branch of AgroCentreZakharovo said, special attention was given to Challenger 1700 and 1800 heavy disk harrows. They do a great job upturning and treating virgin and fallow lands. They are also suitable for intense, deep disking and embedding of stubble residues. This is a fine alternative for farming enterprises that gave up ploughing.

The most popular tool among the seeding machines is the Challenger Single Disk Drill pneumatic seeder suitable for no-till, minimal, and traditional tillage technology. The special feature of the seeder is the patented method of matched, single unit disks which raise and move the earth between two 15-cm rows. The loosened soil is moved from the matched disks back to the roll-on wheel, which smoothes out and compacts the soil on the furrow. Such removal of soil prevents build-up on the side wall and the fouling of the furrow by the stubble, thereby encouraging sprouting. The seeder is very simple to control. The operator doesn’t need to leave the tractor cabin to change the operating mode, since the disk pressure is adjusted by the onboard computer. Aleksey Porokhin pointed out that the Challenger Single Disk seeders are particularly useful for the Penza region, where many farmers are now switching over to the no-till technology.