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Horsch has unveiled new weed control implements to complement its sprayer line, aiming to offer growers a full suite of integrated weed management kit. CPM travels to Germany to preview the range. I can see a time coming when countries may lose not only more of the selective herbicide products we have, but also quite probably glyphosate. By Martin Rickatson The tractor coupled to the front of Horsch’s new Cura ST weed harrow isn’t hanging around. Zipping along at a probable 15km/h, the onlookers watching the machine appear more nervous than the operator as he tears up and down at speed through well-established young plants. Various members of the audience poke around between the crop rows behind the tractor and weeder combination, looking for evidence of crop damage and inter-row weed removal. There’s very little of the former, and fair evidence of the latter. The Cura ST weed harrow features six rows of steel tines, which can be hydraulically angled to provide greater pressure to dislodge tougher-rooted weeds Marking a departure for Horsch into new territory outside its usual specialisms of tillage, seeding and spraying equipment, this is just one machine in a line of new weed and stubble…
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