"At the
Expoagro 2024 Technodrome
, three different moments were observed with a common thread, the sustainability of production systems," began explaining the Agricultural Engineer Adriana Godoy from the EEA INTA Cerrillos de Salta, a specialist in agricultural machinery, commented. "In the first, called
The Machine Show ,
seeders, fertilizers, sprayers, grain harvesters and tractors
were seen
.
In the second, called
Livestock Technology
, with
chopper mixers and forage trailers
.
And the third moment was the so-called
Technological Evolution
with the new developments presented at Expoagro 2024," she added.
According to him, the
seeders
in the
Technodrome
reflected their condition of being one of the chapters of the machines that had the greatest amount of advances in terms of precision in recent times.
"
Cutting by sections
, elements that improve efficiency in the management of
planting density
, in the number of
plants achieved
per meter of furrow,
depth uniformity
, which are extremely important factors because they allow better use of the seed resource that is one of the most expensive," said Godoy.
More specifically, he said: “All of this implies improvements achieved in
seed delivery
, through
more precise seeding dispensers
, because they have the issue of
precision agriculture incorporated
, with more precise
electronic commands
.
All the planters had an
associated computer
from which the work orders were issued.
Likewise, we saw large-scale units, air drill type, with large working widths, which gives them great autonomy.”
The team that worked at the Tecnódromo from the Left Sergio Marinelli, Guillermo Marrón, Adriana Godoy, Luis Negruchi and Ramiro Cid.
Godoy also referred to the
fertilizers
in the technodorm, “There was a precise machine that was very efficient in the use of resources, which allowed choosing how to fertilize according to the needs of the lot, with jet dispensers
with variable doses
.”
Sprays
In the spraying sector, the Agr. Engineer.
Ramiro Cid of the
Inta Castelar Rural Engineering
Institute
said that he noticed greater automation of
land machines, and in the Technodrome, a piece of equipment with
peak-by-peak cutting
stood out ,
which surpasses
cutting by sections in precision,
and
direction in the four wheels
to advance with
a crab step
, which can reduce the turning radius and work much faster without having to skip a row between passes, speeding up the work
“There were also wider and very stable booms thanks to
carbon fiber
as a construction material.
The cut by sections
was seen in almost all teams
.
Even equipment with
variable application per peak
appeared that will enter the commercial phase in a short time,” Cid highlighted.
In the same sense of advances in spraying, Cid highlighted the presence of
robotic
equipment with “sensors that detect obstacles on the road and work errors and that notify the operation centers by telemetry.
But a firm trend was equipment with
rotating sprayers
, with which the uniformity of droplet size can be controlled much better, and the problem of drift can be greatly reduced,” he stated.
A nationally manufactured robot prepared for directed spraying that is projected in the future to be applied in other mechanized operations such as fertilization and sowing
In the same sense of drift control, including
aerial spraying
, he commented, the appearance of
increasingly effective
adjuvants , with which applications can be managed increasingly better, increasingly reducing the risks of drift.
Likewise, he pointed out the presence of
drones
from more than one company at the Tecnódromo, and stated: “It is a still incipient technology that had a lot of prominence at Expoagro.
As an example, we see the use of models in the country with
30 and 40 liter
tanks that come equipped with
conventional spouts or with rotating systems
and it is necessary to analyze which of the two is more efficient."
Grain and forage crops
Sergio Marinelli
, harvest specialist, referred to the teams that participated in Tecnódormo, “A 40-foot draper head that, in addition to harvesting, could
mow and row
unevenly ripening crops, such as beans, avoiding the use of phytosanitary products to dry the crops.” green beans, which would limit consumption.
Likewise, Marinelli highlighted a
self-unloading hopper
with
an open tube detector
, an innovation awarded by Expoagro and that prevents the operator from deploying the tube with the discharge activated.
An autonomous platform with spraying equipment the size of a common equipment, controlled remotely and designed to be developed with other types of equipment and field work.
“This year the crops harvested at Expoagro –
soybeans, corn and moha
– offered an unbeatable substrate for harvest demonstrations, chopping for forage silo and harvesting with conditioning and rolling for hay,” said Marinelli.
“
Caravans with online identification
were an indicator of the prominence of electronics in livestock farming as well as in agriculture.
Unlike other years, I think that everything related to
Artificial Intelligence, robotics and automation
has gained potions and was a good reason for enjoyment for the visitor to the Technodrome," said Marinelli.