Rfm Guidance Ct 2330 & 2340 Planters

Industry Leader Its no industry secret who sets the standard in cultivating and planting innovation and technology. The RFM cultivators and planters have led the way for more than four decades. Built on the four core priinciples of superior planting, RFM AG GUIDANCE CT PLANTER makes the most of every acre thanks to;

• Superior Ground Following
• Minimal Maintenance
• Precise Seed Placement
• Versitile Tow Frame design for either towing or linkage

Now with the new GUIDANCE CT PLANTER, RFM delievers incredible advances in productivity and versitility from all new features that lead the industry with;

• NEW Controlled Traffic Wheel Centres
• NEW Contourgram Press Wheels
• NEW Ryan DP Series Tyne
• NEW Side Shift Floating Hitch

Together, these all-new features result in a planter that offers industry leading;

• Precise Seed Placement
• Patented Multi-Purpose Press Wheel
• Dual Purpose Min/No Till Planter
• Ideal Trash Clearance Planter designed on 2 Rows

You'll find innovative and improved features all accross the GUIDANCE CT PLANTER, for example, we've improved the Ryan Tyne so it can handle much tougher conditions with a 50mm x 20m shank, and be adaptable to minimum and no till options with a quick change pin system. Designed around the patented anti-jar rubber disc for longeivity and less wear and tear and your equipment.

The GUIDANCE CT PLANTERS frame is designed to three spacings 12", 13 1/3", and 15", with a added feature of a quick change tow A frame to linkage with as equally as quick change Side Shift for Inter Row Sow without the wheels moving off the track. Add to this every RFM AG dealer will support you for reliable service and parts.

Symplicity and Reliability = More Productivity

For the grower who faces the planting challenge of more acres in an optimum window, a RFM GUIDANCE CT PLANTER is a productivity standout that can put your crop in on time everytime.

With the optional quick change double disc for optimum miosture and stubble retention gives you up 40% more productivity than a standard tyne planter.

An revolutionary contour following press wheel means you can place your seed evenly in all conditions. The unique patented spring coil concept allows the wheel to stay clear of mud and trash build up. The Contourgram Coil press wheel has special features of working on a angle enabling the coil wheel to close the furrow when wet or pull chemical back into the side of the furrow for better weed control, when in a no till operation. This multi-purpose wheel can also be tilted over to vary the size of the foot print.

The key to greater efficiency of an GUIDANCE CT PLANTER is its 3m Controlled Traffic Wheel Centres. Designed with a quick change Side Shift tow frame ensures less compaction, staying on the wheel track even when moving accross for Inter Row Sowing. Statistics have proven Controlled Traffic Farming improves plant available water with the top 30cm by up to 90%. Your residue in a No Till operation leaving your stubble standing, has proven to give you 6% improvement in moisture.

Window Of Opportunity

Its proven seed placement and timig is everything the RFM GUIDANCE CT PLANTER has to offer, being versitile enough to your diverse seeding needs.

Whether planting when towing or linkage the specialised wheel and frame design is purposely designed to optimise seed placement and maximise productivity. Whether it be the easy change Tyne Spacings, quick change Inter Row Side Shift, the RFM GUIDANCE CT PLANTER is the logical planter for the future.

While some manufacturers take a one concept machine does as all approach. The new Dual Purpose RFM GUIDANCE CT PLANTERS allows you to be more versitile and efficient for sustainable farming. Planting at optimum speeds with either disc or tyne providing you with greater savings.

You demand more from your planter, after four decades of bringing you the latest in cultivating and seeding technology we have the experience and knowledge in understanding planting seed. DEMAND RFM and see your local RFM AG dealer today.

Riverina farmers, Bruce and Ian Armstrong have neatly side-stepped the "discs versus tynes" debate by modifying their planter to take either.

The brother have combined the best of both worlds by developing a set of twin-disc coulters that can be interchanged with the original tynes on their six metre RFM airseeder.

The adaption has given them the flexibility to choose the most appropriate ground engaging gear to sut the conditions at the time on their 600-hectare Wagga Wagga farm, Glenwood Park", or when they are on contract sowing on farms thoughout the district.

Bruce Armstrong said the relatively easy task of switching the machine over from discs to tynes, and vice versa, usually took about three hours.

The twin-disc units, which were custom-made at Wagga Wagga, simply attach to the machine's existing tyne heads.

"The tynes on the RFM are only fixed into the tyne heads by two locating bolts, so we removed those and designed a tyne leg that fits in place of the tyne", he said.

"The bottom of the tyne leg is engineered to hold one plain and one scolloped disc at the appropriate angles".

Mr Armstrong said the adaption cost much less than a fully fledged, disced machine.

"Similar twin discs on parallelograms to buy off the shelf would be at least $1100 per unit whereas these fully finished and painted have cost us about $590 each," he said . The other big advantage of the low cost draft, disc option has been in fuel savings with the Armstrongs cutting their fuel usage from 3.5 litres/hectare to 1.91/ha.

Mr Armstrong said they tended to use the disc option in heavy stubble conditions or on erosion-prone, sloping country where it was important to minimise soil disturbance. Discs were also preferred in stoney country where they were less likely than tynes to pull up rocks.

Mr Armstrong said tynes had intregal part to play in wet conditons or in contract farming situations where there were conventional fallows.

"And tynes are always going to be plan B if there is a need to incorprate chemical because disc units only provide minimal soil disturbance and don't incorporate chemical as well," he said.