Patented design delivers performance in all soil and weather types

The new internationally patented Agline multifunctional broadacre planter-cultivator features a unique patented parallelogram design that enables the unit to be used as either a disc or tyne machine in a multiplicity of soil types and weather conditions.
Leading regional machinery dealer and grain and cereal grower Ross Hubbard said that the production model Agline Moisture Manager planter was the result of around 10 years prototype field work and an R&D investment of more than $3 million.

“The engineering ‘genius’ behind the incorporation of a 450mm large travel hydraulic parallelogram and a separate hydraulic stump jump assembly is a genuine world first and this is acknowledged internationally with the provisional patents,” he said.

Ross said the unit was available with frame widths from six metres to 24 metres and Agline had ‘machines already operating in the field with planting widths of nine,12,18 and 24 metres’.

Ross Hubbard said that some primary producers either wished to, or had to continue a form of basic field cultivation.

“Reasons include agronomic diseases, weed control or a conventional desire to continue to till the soil,” he said.

“In any event, the Agline Moisture Manager planter can fill the bill and is an ideal multifunctional tool in all conditions. In order to maintain a competitive price on such a high tech unit, the Moisture Manager planter toolbar is simple and very strong.”

In addition to the new Moisture Manager planter, the CLAAS NVI Harvest Centre will continue to market the Agline Bio-Drill range of disc and tyne planters to suit both air seeders and precision planters.

For more information contact Ross Hubbard, Managing director Claas NVI Harvest Centre

Ph: 02 6792 1988 Mob: 0428 657 311

Caption:
A new Agline Moisture Manager broadacre multifunction planter-cultivator with an 18m (60ft) cut, precision sows part of an 1820ha wheat crop at 'Thorndale' Pallamallawa NSW