Mighty drills need matching fields to work in. The plains of eastern Germany aren’t short of a hectare or two, so we headed out that way to see what Väderstad’s TPL 24 can do on a commercial holding.

Building on Väderstad’s existing 12-row, 16-row and 18-row models but no wider in working width, the TPL 24 is the firm’s first high-speed 24-row precision seeder. Last spring we checked it out in maize