Arend Langer from Monotec, which manufactures and distributes Monosem precision planters from South Africa’s Western Cape Province, demonstrates the Monosem precision planting mechanism. You can see this planter in action at the Royal Show in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, which runs from 25 May to 3 June 2018. https://youtu.be/ssOaoaO0RLY
For a crop farmer, planting is probably the most important management activity. This article provides guidelines on how to choose a good planter. Let’s say you want to plant 40 000 maize plants per hectare at a depth of 50 mm and would like to fertilise it with granular 2:3:2…
Eden Equip adapted their ox-drawn no-till planter to a fit small tractors. This two-row planter can be used to plant maize, soya beans and sorghum, among others and is designed to be drawn by category 1 tractors with engines from 10 kW to 25 kW. It plants at a rate…
Here are a few agricultural implements for small-scale operations exhibited at the annual Nampo Harvest Day at Bothaville in South Africa. Prices are rounded-off and include Value Added Tax. Zambian Kwacha prices were calculated from the exchange rate at the time of publishing, and exclude any transport or export costs.…
Bad business decisions usually have bad business outcomes. But on the one occasion that Piket Implemente, a business in the Western Cape, in South-Africa, “read the market wrong’, it turned out not to be so bad after all. It started in 2010 when this family business – which has been…
