Lemken lights the way in which in weed identification

Inter-row cultivation is quickly turning into a sizzling matter in agricultural equipment with the large implement producers turning to mechanical weed management each at pre-sowing and post-emergence phases of the crop cycle.

There are two basic approaches rising to controlling weeds in a longtime crop; the primary is to exactly find every particular person plant and work round it, whereas the second is to establish weeds inside a crop and take away them mechanically.

Increasing the horizon

Steketee, the wholly owned subsidiary of Lemken, is pursuing the second choice by use of spectral evaluation of the vegetation encountered because the hoe strikes down the rows.

This isn’t notably new know-how and it’s already in use worldwide, however what the corporate has executed is push the wavelengths it makes use of out into the blue finish of spectrum, permitting extra dependable identification of vegetation with a excessive proportion of blue of their leaves.

Its newest IC-Mild+ digital camera management with further blue sensitivity, which nonetheless works on the near-infrared, presents clear benefits in mechanical weed management, particularly within the cultivation of onions, leeks, broccoli or pink cabbage when used with Steketee hoeing machines.

Weed management at 15km/h

The usual IC-Mild digital camera system, developed by the corporate itself, captures the RGB color vary and reliably distinguishes between hues of inexperienced and pink.

The brand new IC-Mild+ digital camera can now additionally seize hues of blue, permitting even very younger vegetation or vegetation with a very superb construction, to be higher recognized and proven.

The digital camera simply handles onions all the way down to the dimensions of a pin, in accordance with the corporate. 

The IC-Mild+ digital camera is operated through the IC-Mild terminal and permits hoeing as shut as 2cm from crop vegetation at ahead speeds of as much as 15km/h.

The digital camera detects as much as 5 rows of vegetation at a time and controls the steering of the hoeing machine between the rows.