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BOUULC COMCCPT Agritechnica 2019 - the worlds leading trade fair was the kickoff for our new product line of mechanical weeding technology. Never before we had this many new products to be presented. We fully committed to rethink weed control. Some of our newly developed machines form a whole new product category which is not available by any other manufacturer on the market so far. These solutions include clever ideas from ecological farming and conventional practices - combining the best of both worlds. The headline for this new category was found quickly: ECONVENTIONAL FARMING. Our ECONVENTIONAL...

ECONVENTIONAL SOLUTIONS: All these ideas have been developed in the practice with a close connection to the field. All this was just possible thanks to the clever minds behind these ideas. Innovative and passionate people from various countries of the world who are deeply rooted in agriculture. Together, we brought the products to a series maturity. ECONVENTIONAL SOLUTIONS, we want to encourage ecological and conventional farming to grow together.” Rolf Zürn, Managing Direct

Keeping fields clean New technology for mechanical weed control The weed harvester TOP CUT collect is a tool for mechanical weed control in case of herbicide resistance and to make organic farming approaches possible. • Grasses and other high-growing weeds are cut precisely just above your crop. The double-cut knife and special helical reel work gently to collect all seeds. Working widths of 9, 12 and 18 m are available. • Collecting and removing the weed seeds from your fields improves the field hygiene reliably. Field tests confirm a reliable reduction of the weed seed bank in the ground. Even...

CUT AND COLLECT THE WEEDS A solution for (resistant) weeds Especially intensive farming can lead to weeds developing resistances against herbicides. Common methods are no longer effective and many chemicals lost their acceptance in society. With this background, ZÜRN HARVESTING and french farmer and technician Romain Bouillé developed an entirely new approach for mechanical weed control. Reducing the weed seed bank The weed collector TOP CUT collect is an intelligent combination of two tasks: Cutting the weed tops above the crops and collecting this material which contains the weed seeds. Hygiene...

Rethink weed control Technical focus on the TOP CUT collect Central conveyor belt The central conveyor belt is moved to working position hydraulically and collects the material from both cross conveyor belts. To fill the bin perfectly, it can be adjusted in speed. Boom The two booms with 9 or 12 m working width are hydraulically folded in to a transport width below 2.5 m. Large bin The collection bin with 7,000 litres has a hydraulic high-dumping system. Narrow tyres Simple, stepless manual track width adjustment on the axle. Tracor attachment The tracor-drawn machine is mounted in the lower...

Various applications of the TOP CUT collect Wild Radish in Summer Wheat The weed infestation with wild radish is reduced in a summer wheat crop. This reduces the competition for growing space for the crops. The field can later be certified for seed multiplication or as high quality baking wheat. de Scan the QR-Co hine ac m e th ch at to w ! in the field White Goosefoot in Sugar Beet The white goosefoot (Chenopodium album) is cut above a heavily weeded sugar beet crop. This reduces the competition for growing space for the crops. Sugar beet reacts with severe yield losses to high weed pressure....

The trend towards a better field hygiene ZÜRN weed harvester scoops SIMA Award The TOP CUT collect weed harvester from ZÜRN HARVESTING received the SIMA Innovation Award in the special ‘Agro-Ecological Transition’ category. The prestigious prize awarded by the innovations committee of one of the leading international farm machinery shows, underlines the innovative and forward-thinking character of this innovation for an environmentally sound agriculture. “We are extremely happy about receiving the prize which is a special success,” says Rolf Zürn. “It reflects on the importance of mechanical...

ROMAIN BOUILLÉ France Romain Bouillé is the son of a farmer, inventor and an excellent mechanic from the central arable region of France. The time he spends on the sugarbeet harvester and combine is well used. Beside machine operation, Romain uses this time to come up with new ideas for a future-proof agriculture. Agronomists in this intensive farming area are faced to high weed pressure and growing numbers of herbicide resistance. This difficulty was raising to a higher power over the last years. Looking at the growth behaviour of weeds and crop plants, Romain got the idea of a machine to cut...

Weed Management starts at harvest Harvest weed seed control (HWSC) aims to destroy weed seeds that have escaped in-season control at harvest. It focuses on the weed laden chaff fraction from the back of the combine harvester and killing or removing the weed seeds present. This approach has been widely used in Australia to manage herbicide-resistant weeds and reduce the weed seed bank. Number of herbicide resistant weeds in european countries. [1] Every farmer has weed seeds at harvest. Why spread them when you can terminate them? Using mechanical weed control can stop the combine harvesters unintended...

sure on a sustainable basis instead of having the same problem over and over again. Thinking long term and preserving the farming land and chemistry for the future generations is key to being profitable season after season. Stop the spread of weeds HWSC measures seem to be useless when it comes to early shedding weeds like Wild Oats since most seeds are on the ground already before harvest. However, these weeds are still harbouring some seeds which enters the combine harvester. Due to their physical characteristics, these weed seeds often end up in the tailings return system and the machine then...