LEMKEN RUBIN 9 HIGH SPEED DISC HARROW AT CARL F. STATZ & SONS.
There are more and more demands to reduce the application of crop care products in arable farming. As a result, stubble cultivation is gaining more importance as a good option for mechanical weed control. The first, shallow pass of stubble cultivation encourages volunteer cereals and weed seeds to germinate. At the same time, chopped straw, stubble and roots still on the field are incorporated into and mixed with the soil to promote rapid rotting. During dry summers, stubble cultivation offers yet another benefit: it loosens the upper soil layer, breaking up capillary action and reducing evaporation to retain valuable moisture in the soil. The first stubble cultivation pass is sometimes followed by another, deeper pass, which serves to control emerging volunteer cereals and weeds mechanically. Organic fertilisers such as liquid manure or fermentation residue can be incorporated at the same time, before sowing the crop. This exhaustive soil cultivation is an active form of crop care, as it reduces the use of crop care products in the next crop. LEMKEN’s new Rubin 10 compact disc harrow is a reliable partner in thorough soil cultivation – even when cultivating lodged cereals, maize straw or tall green manure crops. While cultivators, especially those with short line distances, soon reach their limits in this kind of environment, the LEMKEN Rubin 10 ensures intensive mixing of soil and regrowth, even under difficult conditions and with low working depths.