New technology enhances seeding accuracy

Fentech Agri has adapted its pneumatic seeders to basic box hopper models, offering simplicity and electronic control precision.

Replacing the wheel drive with a motor linked to forward speed ensures consistent RPM of the seeding shaft, unaffected by ground conditions, simplifying calibration and achieving metering rates accurate to within 2%.

This system supports field mapping and variable rate drilling, maximising SFI benefits and conserving seed. It’s cost-effective, generating significant savings, and can be retrofitted to all Simtech mechanical seeders in under a day.

The company’s high-end range also has a new control system from Farmscan Ag Ltd, offering diagnostics and live data over an internet connection, with multiple inputs and outputs for comprehensive monitoring.

Current trials include seed counting and non-traditional calibration methods, feeding into the R&D program for 2025 machinery.

New products include the TSG-300SP, a 3M pneumatic version of the popular mechanical drill with fertiliser options. It combines pneumatic precision with the reliable T-slot tine for establishing grasses, herbal leys, and light arable crops.

The tine penetrates hard ground for early summer cover crop establishment and operates effectively in wet conditions where disc drills fail.

Fentech Agri is also developing new tools to combat blackgrass, including a chemical application tool and expanded mechanical rake machinery for creating stale seedbeds before seeding. Fentech Agri also aims to reduce slug populations to help establish OSR and other shallow-seeded crops.

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