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25-03-2025

Effective Weed Control: Enhancing Crop Growth with Precision Seeding and Fertilizer Placement

As growers prepare for spring planting, controlling weeds becomes a major focus. Effective weed management, including precise fertilizer placement and quick crop growth, is essential to minimize competition and enhance crop success, especially in the face of increasing herbicide resistance.

19-03-2025

Väderstad Introduces the Latest Innovations on the Precision Delivery Air Cart Family Model Year 2026

Väderstad, one of the world’s leading companies in tillage, seeding, and planting, is excited to announce the latest advancements in the Precision Delivery Air Cart family for the Model Year 2026. These improvements ensure that farmers will continue to benefit from precise product delivery, compaction reduction, and improved nutrient use efficiency.

17-03-2025

Optimizing Row Spacing for Maximum Crop Yield

Choosing the right row spacing for a planting or seeding equipment is crucial for optimizing crop yield and efficiency. Different row spacing options offer unique benefits, such as improved residue flow, enhanced weed control, and better crop growth. Precision in seed and fertilizer placement ensures each plant reaches its full potential, regardless of the crop variety or row distance.

10-03-2025

Focusing on Implement Speed to Improve Seed Placement

As the new farming season begins, growers are eager to start planting, taking advantage of early season moisture from snow melt and rain. Precision in seed and fertilizer placement is crucial for maximizing crop yield, especially for small-seeded crops like canola. Ensuring uniform depth and soil placement, particularly in varying soil conditions, helps optimize the return on investment and improve the farm's bottom line.

04-03-2025

Unlocking Crop Potential: The Benefits of Precision Seeding and Optimal Plant Stands

Väderstad's Fenix III metering system, combined with the dual-knife opener system on the Seed Hawk air drill, ensures precise product delivery and proper soil placement, leading to optimal plant growth and a greater return on investment.

27-02-2025

Experience the Väderstad PD 1350 Precision Delivery Air Cart

Join Jeff Prosko from Rose Valley, Saskatchewan, as he shares his experience with the brand new PD 1350 Precision Delivery Air Cart. Jeff and his family run a diverse farming operation, and this spring, they had the opportunity to put the PD 1350 to the test on their canola fields.

06-02-2024

Väderstad introduces the long-life Following harrow Marathon

One of the world’s leading companies in tillage, seeding and planting will introduce a new following harrow in the beginning of 2024, as a compliment to the current assortment. The new Following harrow Marathon will drastically increase the working life of the finishing tool.

01-02-2024

Väderstad present at Green Week 2024

Väderstad, one of the world’s leading companies in tillage, seeding and planting, joined by 16 other companies in the agricultural sector took part in last weeks’ exhibition Green Week in Berlin. The goal was to demonstrate the importance of new innovations in agriculture, to help accelerate the transition to a more sustainable and efficient agriculture.

25-01-2024

Väderstad reaches a turnover of 7 BSEK in FY23

Väderstad, one of the world’s leading companies in tillage, seeding and planting, reaches a new record turnover of 7 BSEK (610 MEUR) in FY23. It’s an increase in sales by 25 percent compared to FY22 and the positive outcome ensures the ability to continued investments to support global food production.

22-11-2023

Väderstad introduces new distributor head to increase the seed drill control

Väderstad, one of the world’s leading companies in tillage, seeding and planting, upgrades the pneumatical seed drills Rapid A 400-800S, Rapid A 600-800C, Spirit 400C/S and Spirit 600-900C/S with a new distributor head for model year 2024. As an option, the new distributor head can be fitted with motors for all outlets, providing the driver with an increased control of the product flow.