EFFICIENT
STUBBLE CULTIVATION
INCORPORATION, LEVELLING AND CONSOLIDATION
Powerful and efficient performance – that is what the Enduro or Enduro Pro offers. The machine can operate at high forward speeds whilst maintaining a consistent working depth.
With the Enduro or Enduro Pro, Kverneland provides a cultivator which is the right choice for all conditions and for a wide range of applications. The stubble cultivation, especially within a minimum tillage cultivation program, conserves soil structure and moisture and limits erosion. It is an operation which requires great consideration. Tillage is an important operation for your next crop establishment. It is important to ask “WHY” do it? What is the reason? Interruption of the “green bridge” If the cropping sequence is repeated within a short period of time, then it is necessary to interrupt the “green bridge” to maintain soil health. The transmission of root diseases or weed problems from one crop to the next needs to be prevented with the aid of managed cultivation. Volunteer plant residue from previous crops should be destroyed to help reduce the need of herbicides and habitat for pests such as slugs. Volunteers germination and straw decomposition A shallow first cultivation ensures a quick and even emergence of volunteers. Therefore a complete cut across the entire working width is needed to reduce evaporation and seed banks as well as to destroy weed roots. A deeper second pass cleans the seedbed. Straw decomposition should also be accelerated as many diseases are transferred by straw. Effective residue management is important. Supporting the soil structure A deeper second pass cleans the seedbed. A quick cultivation after harvest benefits the stable soil structure. Improved consolidation of the surface and deep incorporation of residue assists in the control of pests such as slugs or mice by restricting their movement in the seedbed to the surface.
Stubble cultivation is the basis of success or failure of the next crops.
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