This year’s Tillage-Live event on 16 September 2015 will have a high-tech look to it, with mapping specialist Soyl demonstrating its Autodepth variable depth control cultivation unit.

Agrovista will also be showing its new data management system MapIT Pro, which helps growers cope with the vast amounts of digital information being created on farms.

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“The amount of information farmers have to deal with is growing exponentially as the adoption of decision support and precision farming systems grows,” says Agrovista’s head of precision technology, Lewis McKerrow.

“MapIT Pro software enables users to control and map data simply and quickly, allowing the many pieces of the precision farming jigsaw to fall into place.”

As well as the high-tech stuff, this year’s show will see the manufacturers putting their latest models to work. Most of these have not been seen in action in the UK yet.

Amazone will be working its Certos heavy compact disc cultivator. This adds to the lighter Catros range and is a heavier implement with 660mm serrated discs.

Widths go from 4m width up to a hulking 7m version. The 5m version will be working on the day.

Suffolk manufacturer Claydon will be operating its 8m drill, front press option and a new Isobus controller, while He-Va will be working its latest Danish one-pass subsoiler/disc cultivator. 

Horsch will be operating its first mounted power harrow/drill combination in the UK and KRM will have its French-made Agrisem Maximulch disc cultivator on show for the first time at Tillage-Live. Kverneland, meanwhile, will be showing its Optima V precision drill as part of a strip tillage system.

Maschio’s latest Alitalia power harrow-drill shows that this type of set-up no sign of losing out to wider and faster drill-only set-ups. Meanwhile Pottinger will be showing its Lion combi drill that can use a power harrow or unpowered cultivator.