Jannie and Kobus Baard Control Five (5) Tanks with ZYNX
Minimum-till farmers Jannie Baard (left) and Kobus Baard (right) control five (5) tanks with their ZYNX controller thanks to the new MINI ECU developed by KEE Technologies.
South Africa, (PRWEB) June 3, 2005 -- Jannie and Kobus are near the towns
Swellendam and Heidelberg in the Western Cape of South Africa, a winter rainfall
area similar to the wheat-belt in Western and Southern Australia.
Planting crops like wheat, barley, oats, canola, and
lucerne and also breeding ostriches, the Baard’s use a DBS Multistream Airseeder
built by Agri-Phyto in Albertinia under license from AUSPLOW, a Western
Australian manufacturer of high-precision seeding equipment.
The five
tank airseeder has 4 x 2000 litre tanks and 1 x 280 litre tank. The first two
tanks are dedicated to dry fertilizer or seed, the third tank can be swapped
between dry and liquid fertilizer, the fourth tank is dedicated for chemical
spraying and the fifth tank is for fine seeds.
The ZYNX Precision
Agriculture system controls the five tanks simultaneously with Variable Rate
Control while also doing guidance, going round and round most of the time.
Guidance is very important to Jannie and Kobus Baard to prevent double seeding
and missed areas and also enabling them to work in the thick mist they
experience in the Western Cape. The interactive color coverage and prescription
maps on the ZYNX showing the applied area is a great feature especially in low
visibility conditions.
Graeme Kennelly, KEE’s International Marketing
Manager said, “Jannie and Kobus really find the fifth tank enhances their
flexibility in planting. Like many other farmers and contract planters and
applicators around the world our customers are often confronted with different
situations on each farm or from field-to-field or even in different planting
rotations. Jannie and Kobus also find the ZYNX to be very user friendly and
easy-to-use. They also use the ZYNX to automatically log the application data,
maps and details of each job enabling recording of the precision application of
seed, fertilizer and chemicals.”
About KEE Technologies. KEE Technologies
is a privately held company that develops and manufactures innovative electronic
control, rugged computer solutions and precision agriculture software. With
offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom and the
United States KEE Technologies is at the forefront of Precision Agriculture
globally with it's powerful and fully integrated control, monitoring, navigation
and assisted-steering system known as ZYNX. KEE also has a complete range of
control and monitoring devices for the OEM market.
For more information
contact Carlie Eldredge at info@keetechnologies,com.
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