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DIRECT DRILL MODEL 22.000 ... ONLY OF ITS TYPE IN THE WORLD.  View our design and you will be able to understand our message |
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The UK version of the BERTINI drill has a single seed hopper for cereals, with an 81 speed gearbox and a hopper for rape with a 9 speed gearbox (18 gears with high/low) and a slug pellet hopper with a 9 speed gearbox (18 gears with high/low). Each hopper is independent in the seed train, thus enabling each hopper to discharge correctly. This not only optimises seed germination but also allows correct placing of the slug pellets therby increasing overall efficiency. The Bertini direct-drill system cuts sowing costs by up to 70%. |
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Direct drilling reduces costs, improves soil texture and protects the enviroment. |
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For more than 4000 years man has plaughed without having any real scientific reason for doing so. In this way he has damaged soils causing eolic and hydraulic erosion. |
In the last six decades he has replaced the OX with the tractor and this increased enviromental contamination. Sucessive cultivations conpact the soils and destroy the fauna and pulverize the soil particles exposed to the rain and facilitate erosion, reduce organic matter by oxidising dead plant material thus increasing Co2 leakage to the atmosphere and hence global warming. TODAY THE NEW AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION has arrived to slowly correst all the damages caused by man throught the ages. We cannot understand that while space technology and comunications and the rest are so far advanced and yet farming carries on like it did a thousand years ago or more. ARGENTINA is a country without farm - subsidies and has had to develop direct drilling techniques to enable it to compele with other countries that recieve subsidies. Farmers with 10 years uninterrupted direct drilling have been able to reduce cultivation costs by nearly 70% as well as improving soil structures and increasing yields and reducing nitrogen applications. |
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MINIMUN - TILLAGE IS UNSUSTAINABLE IN THE LONG RUN |
Minimun tillage interrupts by the action of moving the top surface (8 - 10 cm) (stubble) after harvest, the free flow interaction of the roots of the recently combined crops with the rest of the soil. Thus impeding capillarity plus the capacity these have for lossening the soil (IE. Roots). With minimun tillage it`s necessary to plough in alternate years to decompact the soil. Thus negating any initial benefits, (as apposed to direct drilling). |
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MINIMUN TILLAGE: Soil divided and difficult root penetration. |
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DIRECT DRILLING: Decompacted soil and good root penetration. |
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THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION OF THE NEW MILENIUM |
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THE BERTINI DIRECT DRILL SYSTEM
Offers a great reducction in costs; high drilling velocity,
low HP requirement, great precision in seed distribution, perfect depth control,
consequent high germination.
The technique consists in NOT MOVING THE SOIL.
A cutting disc (turbo) penetrates 8 - 10 cm preparing a macro seed bed.
The disc is accomponied by two cleaning skates that not only clean the disc but
also push down the stubble thus making "a clean cut".
A double disc deposits the seed in the seed-bed thus created.
A seed firmer pushes the seed to the bottom of the line, creating an excellent
contact with the soil.
Two orbital wheels next to the double disc control the seed-depth.
A set of "indented metal wheels inclined", closes the seed line while a small
insecticide box (IE. Slug pellets) administers a precise dosage in the seed line.
With this simple and efficient operation we thus substitute all the operations so
far carried out on the farm.
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BERTINI has spent the last 20 years researching and developing direct drills and this largely contributes to their success. |
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With direct drilling we not only obtain optimum plant growth
but also good root development as well.
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For further information, please send your mail to:
sembrar@bertini.com.ar
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