When seeding, speed is a key factor. Your time is precious, the periods for drilling are short and costs must be reduced. This is why KUHN seed drills have been deigned to plant crops quickly and accurately.
Optimise your work output and reduce your costs without impacting the quality of your work! MEGANT mounted tine seed drills with working widths of 6.00, 7.20, and 8.00 metres, enable you to establish your crops quickly and uniformly on ploughed or min-tilled land.
Min-till seed drills, designed for minimum cultivation techniques, are the ideal solution for minimizing costs and charges relating to mechanization, crop establishment, and fuel consumption. These techniques prone shallow tillage in order to protect soil life and conserve the structure of the soil as well as limiting soil erosion and compaction. To this end, the KUHN range of min-till seed drills features:
Min-till seed drills make it possible to establish crops quickly and uniformly on pre-prepared plots or using min-till techniques, while reducing your costs. Min-till seed drills can be fitted with tine or disc seeding units.
Min-till seed drills with discs are renowned for precision and versatility. They are equipped with various working components:
Once closed, a press wheel tamps the furrow down to ensure soil/seed contact.
Seed drills with discs are suited to a great diversity of soil types and cropping methods. Depending on the discs used, they are able to work on ploughed, stubble-cultivated, or even shallow-tilled land. This versatility is also reflected in their capacity to cut crop residues which eliminates any risk of clogging when seeding in plant debris.
Seed drills with discs also produce excellent quality seeding at high working speeds while consuming less fuel. As a result, establishment costs are greatly reduced and your profits increased.
Seed drills with tines work the seeding line only. A tine opens the furrow and creates fine soil for the seeds to be placed into. The seeds are then covered with fine soil by a covering harrow. KUHN covering harrows can be double or combined with press wheels to improve soil/seed contact.
Min-till seed drills with tines are often mounted tools with light and compact designs. As such, they meet current environmental and economic challenges by seeding fast and consuming less fuel.
Being highly versatile, these seed drills are capable of high-quality seeding in various soil conditions: wet, dry, stony, or with residues. Consequently, they lengthen the seeding period because they can seed earlier or later in the season.
KUHN’s robust, special profile seeding tines require no maintenance so are a real cost-saving solution. They offer perfect stability and a constant seeding depth, even in stony ground. They also reduce the hairpinning phenomenon by clearing straw out of the furrow.
It is important to bear in mind, however, that the type of tine used will greatly affect seeding quality. That’s why KUHN offers three different types of tine: thin tines, reversible forward pointing coulters, and straight coulters. The 12 mm thin tines are robust and penetrate the soil easily while keeping soil and residue displacement in the seeding line to a minimum. This helps conserve the humidity in the soil.
The reversible forward pointing coulters are designed for efficient soil penetration. They are particularly suited to working on pre-tilled land. Lastly, the straight coulters are ideal for stony conditions due to their special shape which limits stones being brough up and optimises seed placement.
Choosing a seed drill is an important decision because seeding is the first step in the success of your crop production. When you choose a KUHN implement, whether you opt for discs or tines, you get a top-quality min-till seed drill!
