Record-breaking planter

AgroCentre’s customer was lucky to become the first Russian owner of the unique Vaderstad Tempo L16 seed drill. The model will become available to Russian farmers only in autumn, but Bent Kjerkegor Jensen, Head of Datskiy Bekon, Lipetsk oblast, did everything in his power for the Tempo L16 to come out into the company’s fields this spring.

Exclusive product

The Vaderstad Tempo L 16 seed drill has already passed the first field tests at Datskiy Bekon and exceeded the wildest expectations.

Bent Jensen made an advance payment for the seed drill as far back as in 2016 after he had studied the machine market thoroughly and sought advice from AgroCentre. Thus, he became the pioneer and ‘pimped out’ the machinery fleet by getting an exclusive model. Today, two Tempo L 16 seed drills are operating on the territory of Russia.

‘We cultivate around 6,000 ha of arable land, grow winter and spring wheat, malting barley, soybeans, sunflower and maize’, says Bent Jensen. ‘We used to sow with planters by other manufacturers, but having learnt about a novelty from Vaderstad, we decided to purchase the machine. We haven’t run into any difficulties during operation so far, which is a major advantage for a machine which has just been debuted in the market.’

Design solutions

The novelty from Vaderstad is equipped with the unique Power Shoot row unit, which guarantees precise seedbed placement.

The large 5,000-litre hopper combined with high speed provides unsurpassed capacity of Tempo L 16. The new model has 16 row units with a variable inter-row distance adjusted with electric drives.

A record-breaker in capacity

The speed reaching 18 km/h is the main advantage of the Tempo L 16 seed drill.

‘The Vaderstad Tempo L 16 offers the highest capacity in its class, which has been proved by the first testing in Europe’, notes Yuriy Pankrashkin, Sales Specialist of AgroCentreLiski. ‘The equipment set a world record in performance having sown 502 ha in 24 hours. It is a unique result, previously virtually unattainable’, he says.

The Vaderstad equipment has been designed with a great safety margin to work in the toughest conditions.