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Sugar beet strip till
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04/22/2010 - 3:59 am
reply from
Andrew Scoley
I am a UK farmer who together with my neighbour and contractor will be using controlled traffic farming from this harvest. Whilst not a great fit to the system we would like to carry on growing sugar beet and I think a strip till system would work best for this. There are virtually no strip tillage machines here in the UK and I can see we will have to consider importing one from the USA. Do any of your readers have experience of strip tillage with sugar beet? I think we need a machine that tills an 8'' band, with the band centres 20'' apart as we grow beet on 20'' rows. This is somewhat narrower than corn bands which I understand are usually set at 30'', so is it possible to make a machine with rows this narrow? I want to find a 12 or 18 row machine, and would like to know what sort of power requirement we would need. We would like to band the fertilzer at the same time too.
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04/30/2010 - 1:50 pm
reply from
Grant Corley
Reply to Andrew, I know nothing about sugar beet production, but I built a 12 row 20" striptill machine that works very well. We knife in NH3 + dry 18-46-0 using a tow-between aircart. The strip-till machine tows after the aircart w/ the NH3 tank behind that. We use it for 20" corn & plan to to use it on some soybean acres to see how well it works. We have used it on corn for 2 yrs. w/ good results. We do not quite till up an 8" wide strip, probably closer to 6", but we are certainly getting our highest yields of corn w/ strip-till. Power requirements in our soils are high. We have a Front-Wheel assist tractor w/ 235 HP & it is loaded @ 5 - 5.5 MPH pulling the 12 row unit. THat seems to be about the normal requirements to do the job in this area. Grant Corley
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05/ 4/2010 - 6:47 am
reply from
Bogdan Garalejic
Hallo Andrew.
My name is Bogdan Garalejic from Serbia. My collegue and I have strip till machine CASE DMI 5310 until 2006. We never works on sugar beet, but we will try to do that. Try to find in German magazine Zuckerrube text with machine and planter from Koekerling and Becker which work on strip till. Striping and planting in the same time. I suggest you to speak with Mike Petersen from Orthman Manufecturing from USA who have experience with strip till and who is guru for this system. Maybe Orthman have his First riper, model, with narrow rows.
I wish you all the best,
Bogdan Garalejic, Ag Extension Service Province of Vojvodina, Serbia.
My name is Bogdan Garalejic from Serbia. My collegue and I have strip till machine CASE DMI 5310 until 2006. We never works on sugar beet, but we will try to do that. Try to find in German magazine Zuckerrube text with machine and planter from Koekerling and Becker which work on strip till. Striping and planting in the same time. I suggest you to speak with Mike Petersen from Orthman Manufecturing from USA who have experience with strip till and who is guru for this system. Maybe Orthman have his First riper, model, with narrow rows.
I wish you all the best,
Bogdan Garalejic, Ag Extension Service Province of Vojvodina, Serbia.
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05/ 5/2010 - 2:10 pm
reply from
Andrew Scoley
Dear Grant and Bogdan, thank you very much for your input and I will follow up with your suggestions and see where I get to. I would say that 235 HP for a 12 row tiller isn't too bad, 20 HP per unit is about where I thought we would have to be. We use an 8530 on Soucy tracks so 12 row would be no problem, we might be stretching it a bit to go to 18! Many thanks, Andrew Scoley
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07/21/2010 - 8:55 am
reply from
Victor Leforestier
Hello Andrew, I'm french farmer from Normandy. In France, some growers are trying to plant sugar beets with strip till. We don't have a lot of experience but you can contact Duro France : contact@duro-france.com. They make a strip till ridge and have followed some farmers who did sugar beets in strip till.
You can see pictures at : http://www.duro-france.com/materiel_agricole.php?id=16
You can see pictures at : http://www.duro-france.com/materiel_agricole.php?id=16
