Kverneland has added new drills, power harrows and strip-till models to its line-up. 

Turbo S tine cultivator

The Kverneland Turbo S tine cultivator has made a return to the range after a couple of years’ absence.

But it’s now a trailed rather than mounted implement and in wider working widths – 6.5m and 8m – to match increased tractor power on farms.

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Arranging the tines in five rows provides generous trash clearance and ensures thorough soil working, says the company.

Maximum operating depth is 15cm, which makes it an implement most likely to go to work on shallow, brash soils or where there is a lot of stone.

“The vibrating tines and tine layout are designed to give a good mixing action for incorporating stubbles and chopped straw,” points out Adam Burt, tillage products specialist at Kverneland UK.

There are levelling tines ahead of the packer, which uses front guide wheels to regulate working depth, with hydraulic adjustment for fine tuning on the move.

Where conditions are too sticky for a roller, the cultivator can be supported on the large transport tyres.

Kultristrip 

Growing acceptance of strip tillage has encouraged Kverneland to expand its Kultistrip range with folding 4.5m and 6m versions joining the base 4m machine.

All adjustments on the compact strip cultivating units can be adjusted without tools, says the company, and row spacings are adjustable from 45-80cm to suit crops from sugar beet and oilseed rape to maize.

The machines can work working soil down to 30cm if necessary and produce a tilth in one pass.

A fertiliser placement kit can be added and a slurry applicator to work the Kultistrip on the back of a tanker.

F30 power harrow

A tough design originally developed for folding versions of the Kverneland F30 power harrow will be used in a new H series that will replace the current NGH line.

It will be combined with a headstock that Kverneland engineers say is lighter but just as strong, can still support a piggyback drill, and positions the harrow closer to the tractor to reduce the effective weight on the three-point linkage.

A new shark-tooth packer that has shed some weight – 60kg from the 3m version – but is still the same diameter also helps in this respect and now runs on sealed bearings in line with the manufacturer’s policy of making its implements easier to use and maintain.

New side deflectors on a parallel linkage are designed to be more effective at eliminating a ridge of soil to the side of the cultivated area. Working widths are 3m, 3.5m and 4m.

Accord u-drill

An expanded range of multi-stage trailed seed drills is aimed at smaller growers and those wanting to put down fertiliser at the same time as the seed.

The Kverneland Accord u-drill is already available as a 6m grain-only seeder, with optional front packer tyres heading two rows of discs, a row of large packing and transport tyres, and the new CD twin-disc coulter with integral press wheel.

Additions include 3m and 4m versions with a 3,200-litre grain tank and a 6m seed and fertiliser version with a 4,300-litre tank.

Fertiliser can be placed beside the serrated cultivation discs below seed depth or at the disc coulters but otherwise all newcomers have the same features as the 6m open tank version.

That includes the one-touch headland system, which uses an Isobus terminal to operate switchable hydraulic valves in sequence with just one touch of a screen icon.