31 / 108
29
August 2018
For use on the ground or in the air
Something for fruit and nuts
More efficient soybean planting
The AgriCAD land roller offers the soybean producer the unique
opportunity to plant soybeans with more efficiency and harvest
them at lower risk. According to Mr Charl Fouche, marketing advisor
at AgriCAD, land rolling should not be considered as compaction of
the soil, because the land roller actually pushes rocks, soil lumps
and other potential hazardous objects into the soil to lower
potential damage whilst harvesting. The sealed soil also leads to
improved water retention and enhanced soybean germination is
the result of continual, controllable plant depth. Up to 12% more
soybeans are harvested with lower damage risk. Three AgriCAD
land roller models are available – a 7,6 m; 9,4 m and 11,3 m – all
with collapsible wings for easy transport.
An alternative to aerial crop spraying
Producers are required to manage acres of farmland at a time and
have recently begun to tap into drone or remotely piloted aircraft
system (RPAS) technology to do so efficiently and sustainably.
This method of crop spraying could revolutionise the way in which
producers manage and take care of their crops. The DJI Agras
MG-1S crop sprayer, distributed in South Africa by Agri Services, is
especially useful in technical terrain (smaller, harder to reach fields)
where a high level of precision application is required.
The more technical the terrain, the less effective traditional methods
of aerial application are, resulting in ultimately reduced crop pro
duction and an increased risk of pest resistance. This ULV sprayer
has a payload of 10 kg and can cover 3 ha/hour to 5 ha/hour which
Keep bad fruit out of a good box
Biometic is the producer’s overall electronic partner for controlling
and optimising all aspects of fruit processing. Using the latest and
most innovative technology, optoelectronic multi-sensor quality
scanning, the quality and value of fruit is being improved by opti-
mising grading, sorting, storage and production. The Q Eye scans,
grades and classifies fruit for optimised sorting. This multi-sensor
quality scanner consistently detects fruit defects and the software
classifies fruits with precision and optimises processing and sorting
according to customers' quality requirements. A top-of-the-range
low power x-ray inspection is performed to identify internal fruit
defects that are not visible on the surface. It helps to reduce fruit
misclassification and the non-invasive scanner helps to eliminate
waste and reduce financial losses by delivering bad fruit.
Harvesting nuts more efficiently
Rovic Leers knows that to boost productivity technology needs to
be utilised. With the pecan farming industry growing they worked
3: Use the AgriCAD landroller to level field surfaces before planting
those crops which need to be planted close to the ground.
4: The DJI crop spraying drone drew crowds at Agri Services’s stand
during NAMPO.
5: Harvesting of nuts is made effortless with the
M7 Mono Boom Shaker.
at a viable solution to harvest pecans in a more efficient manner.
With the M7 Mono Boom Shaker, the shaking process is quick
and effective. The shaker can be used to harvest walnuts, almonds
and pecans. For more efficient removal it can limb and trunk
shake at a higher level. It has been designed for trees up to 16 m tall
and can strip them of all the nuts quickly with no nuts left hanging
in the tree. With sweepers in front of and behind each wheel there
is little danger of driving over the nuts left on the ground, so crop
damage is minimised.
3
4
5
makes it significantly more time efficient and safer than ground
knapsack spraying. Calibration rates and field boundaries are simply
programmed into the RPAS and it automatically calibrates itself
accordingly and flies the pre-defined GPS route.
6: The Biometic Q Eye detects fruit defects that aren’t visible
from the outside.
6