TECHNICAL: The opportunity to save fuel could be one driver why farmers take a serious look at varying working depth during primary cultivations. The philosophy is to work as shallow as possible but as deep as necessary. The Austrian Innovation Farm wanted to put some of this theory into practice last summer.
Lemken supplied the hardware, a trailed 4.0m Karat 9/400KA with three rows of tines, with the firm’s IQblue Connect doing the clever interaction between the application map and the machine. There is a brief synopsis of what IQblue does in the panel on the next page. In a second trial, the Innovation Farm tested the system on a plough, and we will take a look at that on page 76.
