7 best seeders on the market
TradeFarmMachinery picks the best seeders available on the market!
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Photo: Dave Reede/All Canada Photos/Getty Images
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Whether it be an air drill, seed drill or a box drill seeder - most Aussie (and NZ) farmers will require some form of seeder at one point in their lives.
So here at TradeFarmMachinery, we've helped you out by wrangling together some of our favourite seeders for your convenience!
So here it is, our compilation of the best seeders on the market.
Amazone Cirrus 6003-2C disc seeder
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With the addition of a GreenDrill 500 seeder box it can also sow catch crops or apply slug bait during the same pass. Recently I had the opportunity to do a bit of sowing with an Amazone Cirrus 6006-2C at a little place called Terip Terip.
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John Deere 1890 No-Till air drill
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If you’re adopting minimum till, stubble and moisture retention cropping practices then a no-till air seeder is quite possibly the best option. However, if your soils require constant cultivation to maximise germination than a tine seeder may be the way to go. Then, of course, you need to factor in which style of drill would be better suited to raised bed and broadacre cropping.
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Kuhn SD4000 direct drill
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At first glance, you can see it is a seriously well-built and heavy-duty machine, testament to this is its weight of over six tonnes. Interestingly, up the front, it hitches straight to the drawbar of the tractor rather than a two-point linkage like many other brands.
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Vaderstad Rapid RDA 400S air seeder
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The Vaderstad Rapid 400S (seed only) 4m air seeder with additional Bio Drill carries out seedbed preparation, levelling, drilling, and packing in one pass. It also allows reliable seeding results at high working speed, hence the name.
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Duncan Ag Renovator AS5000 airseeder
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The new model boasts a twin bin, trailing, 5m folding airseeder with an advanced electronic metering system. It can be customised to suit the demands of the customer in a number of different ways including bin size and configuration, tine spacing, rollers or harrows to name a few.
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Special Feature - Tilling and Sowing
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Pottinger Terrasem C6 seed drill
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In August I head to the heartland of New Zealand's arable industry, mid-Canterbury, to witness the Pottinger Terrasem C6 drill. With 6m of coverage, the new drill gives an impressive output of around 3 hectares per hour as it sows processing peas on Keith Wild's property near Chertsey. It is pulled by a 305hp (224kW) Case IH Magnum, which has no problem given the Terasem’s recommended 10-12km/h.
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Allen Custom Drills C-D 4000
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Owner Ian Hore purchased the drill in September last year to replace an older Duncan Enviro drill, and since then it has clocked up over 2000ha, with operator Ricky Patterson at the wheel for much of the time. Both were pretty keen to showcase the drill and had few negative things to say about it.
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