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Scheduled for release at November’s Agritechnica event in Hanover, Kuhn – like many other cultivation and sprayer specialists – will unveil its first mechanical hoes.
This is in response to increasingly tougher regulations around herbicide use.
Rumoured to be available in just two ranges called Rowliner and Tineliner. The former, as the name suggests, is a row-crop cultivator and will be available in six to 12 row configurations. While the latter, a tined weeder, will be available in working widths from 6-12 metres. Industry sources suggest they will be joined by the Starliner rotary hoes sometime in 2025.
In 2022 at the company’s headquarters in France, journalists asked about the likelihood of the company adding mechanical hoes to its portfolio.
They were told by senior management that the company was monitoring a market it deemed to be interesting. However, it indicated that, size wise, it was limited worldwide.
However, it appears that there has been a significant change of heart in the matter, no doubt driven by the likes of Amazone, Kverneland, Lemken, Pottinger and Vaderstad jumping on the bandwagon.
But it remains to be seen whether the Kuhn product is developed in-house or outsourced.
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