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The Solitair DT combines extensive tillage and seeding in one pass, as well as fertilizer application.
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Lemken Solitair DT blends tillage and seeding

Combination unit wins award for environmental sustainability at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show 2024

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Lemken's Solitair DT combination tillage and seeding implement is new to the North American market and has been introduced to farmers at shows around Canada this summer.
Lemken Solitair DT
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VIDEO: Seeding, tillage combine with Lemken’s Solitair DT

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This year Lemken introduced its Solitair DT combination tillage and seed drill implement to the North American market. Here, senior editor for machinery Scott Garvey talks to product specialist Matt Amey about the features on the drill, and Lemken marketing manager Ivor Bernatsky shares why the drill won an Innovation in Agriculture Award in the […] Read more
Operators can monitor and control the autonomous machine through a mobile device.
Machinery

Autonomous tillage and haying

Lemken and Krone partner on multi-functional robotic system development

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Glacier FarmMedia – As more attention is turned toward autonomous field operations, even companies that haven’t been known for offering powered systems are revealing their efforts to produce self-propelled robotic equipment.  Tillage equipment producer Lemken recently announced it had partnered with forage-focused Krone (both companies are based in Germany) to create an autonomous power unit […] Read more
Lemken designed a cultivator for the Combined Powers system that can detect tillage depth and tell whether the cultivator is plugging with trash. It also confirms that the system is crumbling soil appropriately and managing field slope and moisture conditions. Krone’s mowers and forage harvesting equipment are also designed to optimize performance in the field.
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Combining forces and experience, Krone and Lemken are autonomous

For the European shortliners, working together harnesses global skills to put Combined Powers to work in farmers’ fields

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Glacier FarmMedia – Krone and Lemken teamed up to build a robotic tractor and implements designed to help the companies keep pace with the autonomous revolution expected to sweep the agricultural sector. Combined Powers is the name of the joint project. Yves Desjardins of Lemken said there are multiple reasons it made sense for the […] Read more
This is a typical European planting setup, says Lemken’s Mark VanDeursen. The tractor carries a 20-foot-wide hydraulic downforce packer at the front, a 20-foot wide, three-point hitch drill at the back, pulling a cart with seed and fertilizer. In some situations, the rig can do this operation directly into a plowed field. The updated version of VarioPack has heavier packing wheels.
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Lemken puts new tools into the ground for 2022

The implements reflect European criteria for manure injection designed to protect the environment

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Lemken has two new soil management tools expected to be available this year: a new liquid manure injection tool and a furrow press mounted to the tractor’s front. Lemken’s Heliodor compact disc harrow will be compatible with a precision liquid manure spreader built by Vogelsang DosiMat DMX. A Lemken press release says the resulting combination […] Read more

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