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XtraBlatt Issue 01-2022

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  • Xtrablatt
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  • Farmers
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  • Germany
  • Grassland
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  • Biogas
  • Agricultural
  • Krone

FEATURE 1 Farmers,

FEATURE 1 Farmers, hunters, drone flyers and contractors should coordinate their work to best protect wildlife. 2 Drones are the most effective technology for finding young animals. Given the costs, people should by all means make use of grants. 1 also running costs to be considered when searching for animals, be it replacing a drone battery or the extra work involved for contractors when scheduling their work. “If farmers, huntsmen and contractors invested €1 per hectare of land that the drone flies over and gave this money to those flying the drones, that would help everyone,” he explains. “This would always pay off, because the grass would not be contaminated, for example with botulism, which can happen when animals are injured or even killed during mowing. The animal population would be protected, and from the point of view of the public, who are constantly worried about animal protection, carefully checking fields would safeguard the farmer.” CHECKLIST FOR THE FIRST CUT MOWING FROM THE INSIDE OUT Searching fields for animals is not the only way to protect wildlife, and Peter Schultze adds that there are many other possibilities. He works at Krone and is responsible for Product Marketing for mowers, tedders and rakes. This means that he also is heavily involved in animal protection when mowing. He recommends “Hubertus” as an effective method to scare off animals. “Hubertus” is an acoustic siren system for saving animals. It is made by an Austrian manufacturer, and Krone offers it at reasonable rates in its price list, for example it can be installed on a front mower. In addition, the agricultural machinery manufacturer is currently taking part in a fundamental research project at the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research (ITAW) at the University of – Farmers, hunters and contractors coordinate the time of mowing – Search the field for wildlife and clutches (using dogs and drones) – Use the Hubertus wildlife warning system – Select the correct mowing strategy 2 Veterinary Medicine Hannover. The project looks at acoustic methods of scaring off wildlife to protect them from entanglement with mowers. “However, scaring the animals with acoustic signals does not work with young animals because of their reflex to duck down in the grass,” he adds. In addition to searching a field for animals, given this ducking reflex, he also urgently advises contractors to mow from the middle of the field outwards, rather than as is often the case, from the outer edges inwards. This would give animals a chance to escape. For safety reasons, there is an optical signal in the start display of the ISOBUS terminal in Krone mowers, reminding contractors to mow in the “right” direction. Peter Schultze states that in any case the driver is well advised to pay careful attention to the area he is mowing and to interpret any signs properly: “In spring, deer trying to escape and yet stand at a certain distance looking around, and birds flying up into the air are an unmistakable indication that there are young animals in the grass. But it cannot be said often enough: What is most important is that farmers, hunters and contractors coordinate their work and search the area for wildlife. That’s still the best way to protect the animals.” « BALECOLLECT THE CLEVERER WAY OF COLLECTING Big bales need to be loaded to truck as quickly as possible. This procedure is now much easier and more convenient courtesy of a GPS auto feature on the Krone BaleCollect bale accumulator. This allows the accumulator to deposit the bales automatically and at right angles to the direction of travel along virtual lines that freely programmable. As a first step, the combination travels the perimeter of the field recording up to five A-B lines along which BaleCollect will deposit the bales during harvest. The single big advantage of this technology is that the bales are deposited with their long sides across the direction of travel for efficient bale handling and collecting. Courtesy of the GPS-controlled depositing feature, the haulage chain can work more time- and cost efficiently, such as by reducing the number tractor hours, fuel consumption and working hours. Another factor that should not be neglected is work safety, because thanks to the exact points in the field operators can work more efficiently in awkward patches and on the headland. At the SPLITCUT ON ZX MODELS same time, bales can no longer be overlooked and left in the field. Last but not least, the new system clearly reduces the number of passes for gentler soil treatment, better field management and higher yields. « OPTIMISING PRECISION CUTS The Krone ZX forage wagons received a major update that optimises the pick-up and the crop feed into the machine. The revision leads to even more precise cuts and reduces the machine’s power input while ensuring gentle handling of the crop. The new welding technology that has been adopted for these assemblies enables us to reduce tolerances on the feeder prongs and the feeding drum. Another new detail on the ZX models is the option of reducing the rotor speed – a detail that is very useful when operating the wagon with tractors of less than 250hp or when picking up very small swaths. A brand-new innovation is Krone SplitCut: This edge cutting system consists of partitions that cut the outboard star completely off the cargo space, ensuring that no uncut material is gathered into the machine. The material flow is split on the first blade and is then fed again over the feed tines to the front end. Two deflector plates guide it to the middle of the rotor where it is cut and fed into the load area. The new ZX cutting system also convinces in terms of gentle treatment of the material. This is ensured by optimising the long top plates of the feed tines thereby increasing the total feed area by 50% for an exemplary crop flow. « 52 53