PHOTO: HANS PRINSEN
PHOTO: HANS PRINSEN
The broader the hoe, the greater your benefit from section monitoring based on GPS-guided lifting of individual parallelograms. On angled and sloping headlands, this means that the whole area is hoed without damaging nearby rows.
Remote assistance
It all sounds very simple to do in layman’s terms, but translating it for a hoeing machine that automatically works along a crop row with high precision is not quite so easy. It takes spe- cialists a great deal of time to develop the soft- ware. Wageningen University & Research, among others, has a wealth of expertise in this
field based on horticultural applications, and Steketee is grateful for the opportunity to make use of this expertise. Steketee looks after the onward development into its current IC system in-house, and the technology is mature enough for use in the practical setting. Never- theless, it is to be expected that many im- provements are not yet ready, particularly in
relation to the software. Certainly for new us- ers, it takes a little getting used to and some understanding of the processes required to make it work perfectly. The right configuration and adjustments are crucial. The display show- ing all the controls and settings is actually nothing more than a pre-programmed Win- dows laptop with a touchscreen. This makes it
Fitting a cylinder in the parallelogram structure of the hoeing element makes hydraulic lifting and dropping possible. For an additional € 50, you can make it a twin-function cylinder and also exert pressure.
The elements on the left are still lifted, while on the right they are al- ready in the soil. With section control, you can hoe angled and slop- ing headlands completely without losing plants unnecessarily.
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