High Speed Electric In-row Weeding 

Thanks Reid We appreciate your comments!

Thanks Asif. The machine needs individual crop plants to be at least 180mm apart within the crop row so that there is room for the rotary blade to move in between plants without doing any damage. This is normally achieved by accurately transplanting in crops like lettuce and the brassicas, but can also be achieved with very good precision drilling. Crops like garlic and onion are normally grown as a continuous row of closely spaced plants in which there is no space for the blade to fit between plants. However these crops can benefit from vision guided inter-row cultivation as vision guidance can allow cultivators to run much closer to the crop plant and run at higher speed than would be the case under manual control. I know that some growers have experimented with growing onions as clumps in modules and transplanted them out so that the machine can cultivate between these clumps. From a guidance perspective this is fine but I am not sure if these experiments were successful commercially. This might also work for garlic but I am afraid I cannot be sure.

Thanks for your reply sir.

@@NickTillett Where is the machine sold?

@@Alibeysuleimanoglu Hi Agboola The machine in the video was made and sold by our customer Garford Farm Machinery www.garford.com who have dealers in a number of countries.

At the early grow stages i.e. before runners, the technique should work fine on strawberries. There may be some practical considerations relating to plant spacing within the row and distance between rows, but in principle the answer is yes.

is this com to india

$80,000 on there site.......all i see is it moving dirt.....i would like to see it in a field with weeds and a crop....why didnt they show that if its job is to remove weeds.

In principle the technology could be used on any precision planted crop at grow stages before they touch in the row or become too tall. However, the machines are relatively expensive and compared to other operations, the maximum work rate of about 5 plants per second per row is relatively slow, . In commercial practice these machines are mostly used on high value crops for which there are few alternative options that do not involve hand labour. This situation may change as weed pressures increase.

Great thank you for the fast response. We are an organic farm and have some specialty crops at times. I was thinking maybe in the future if we continue to grow at the rate we are, either way I find this amazing .

@@NickTillett I need to Africa

Currently we only supply our electric in-row technology to our customer Garford Farm Machinery Ltd. They can be reached at www.garford.com/ and would I am sure be pleased to quote for your requirements.

Hi Mark Yes, we continue to develop and supply the technology as a package to implement manufacturers.

@@NickTillett Thanks for replying . I asked because one of your machines sold at a auction yesterday in LaConner , Washington

You have to sell half of the continent to buy that machine...