Agricultural machinery

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY

The Kompaktomat pre-sowing combinators have been a significant product of the Farmet brand for more than 25 years. During their existence, they have gone through many innovations and are constantly improved. In may working spans from 2.5 m to 15.7 m, more than 10,000 machines have been delivered to the customers! Kompaktomats are supplied to more than 20 markets in several continents and prove their qualities in many different soil and climatic conditions. They always excellently perform what they are designed for – 7 working operations in one go, which prepares the roughly processed soil after ploughing into a condition ideal for sowing crops.

Excellent levelling and recompacting

The massive design of the machine with large rollers is a guarantee of not only high operating reliability and long service life. It also ensures sufficient machine weight for effective full-area recompacting of the cultivated soil. That is a key factor for creating the so-called seeding bed with renewed capillarity which secures capillary attraction of the soil water to the seed. That is a crucial element of successful growth establishment that ensures even germination and subsequent uniform growth with a sufficient supply of soil water to the roots even in dry periods. Without quality recompacting after ploughing, it is impossible to successfully establish the growth with good yield potential.

Excellent recompacting is also joined by excellent soil surface levelling thanks to up to three skids. They ensure creating an ideal plane both in the lateral and longitudinal directions. They can be adjustable mechanically or hydraulically. A perfectly level surface is the basis for further quick and quality agrotechnical operations – rapid sowing with precise observance of depth, quick and quality chemical treatment during vegetation and a speedy and trouble-free harvest with a low stubble. 

On 2 August 2019, Andest 2005 Bt, a Hungarian importer of Farmet technology, organised a field day at their important customer in Lajoskomárom, near the Balaton Lake. The event organisation was great and provided excellent facilities to customers, even in case of bad weather, including practical demonstrations of selected machines that can work in moist soil. However, the weather turned out great in the end and the technology could be demonstrated completely in ideal conditions. Over 400 farmers attended the demonstrations and had the opportunity to see the whole portfolio of machines. There were practical field demonstrations and customers could see, with their own eyes, the high quality of work of the machines and their broad versatility.

A total of eleven machines were demonstrated, including novelties – the Triton 450 PS combined disc-chisel cultivator and the Fantom 650 PRO 5-row cultivator. The Falcon PRO seed drills were demonstrated as well: their sale has been very successful in Hungary.

Before the 2019 spring agronomical schedule for corn seeding was over, a new machine by Farmet has been tested in Slovakia. It is the mounted version of the precise 8-row seed drill IMPACT 8 PS. Corn was planted with row spacing of 75 cm at a plot near the office of the Slovak Farmet representative, Land Technologies s.r.o., Lužianky.

On 26 April 2019, the plot to be sown was prepared using a disc cultivator (2-year fallow land – after the last harvest of oilseed rape) and then cultivated by a combinator in a depth of approx. 5-6 cm.

The very dry conditions in those days, also due to the not-so-ideal precipitation after winter, indicated that seeding would be done in a dusty foundation, or hard dry top soil layer.

Therefore, the IMPACT 8 PS seed drill was first set to a working depth of approx. 6-7 cm with a down pressure of 180 kg per drill coulter. Together with the seeds, the seed drill also applied urea in a batch of 100 kg/ha. After the first control rides, the seeding parameters had to be adjusted, to a seeding depth of 9 cm and the maximum down pressure permitted by the machine, i.e. 300 kg. The seeds were placed in a layer where the moisture necessary for germination was preserved. The seeding amount was 75,000 specimen per hectare at a working speed of the seeding set of 10-11 km/h. The pulling vehicle used was a tractor with an output of 155 PS.

The following seasonal interventions in the crop were performed: application of urea in a batch of 100 kg/ha and a following application of Engo urea with a growth regulator in a batch of 130 kg/ha. At the beginning of June, herbicidal protection with Maister Power was applied. No mechanical cultivation was performed.