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When buying a new cultivator or plough, there’s a massive variety of tine and disc designs to choose from – so how can you be sure that the equipment will do the job you want? CPM offers a guide to cultivator design and innovations. You should only ever cultivate as deep as necessary. By Olivia Cooper Shallow and fast, or deep and slow? Serrated discs or curved? Narrow tines or duckfoot shares? Oh, and what type of roller would you like with that? The choice of cultivator set-up can be quite baffling, particularly when most farms have one piece of kit which is meant to carry out a multitude of tasks. So how do you go about choosing the best equipment for your farm? We caught up with a few manufacturers to get their top tips and latest developments. The first step, according to Andrew Gamble at Väderstad, is to ascertain what it is you want to achieve. “Dig a hole and figure out what you’re trying to do with the machine – it needs to link to your agronomy.” Are you looking to move a lot of soil on the surface, to chit grassweeds, or do you need…
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