Chemical crop protection products and weed killers are rapidly and increasingly being prohibited. Mechanical weed control is increasingly an essential part of current cultivation techniques and is no longer limited to bio cultivation.

AVR has recently introduced a foldable version of its combination machine, which consists of a base chassis with a characteristic weight transfer system, to which different elements can be added. This way, the machine can be used as a speed ridger, hoe-rake ridger or eco ridger. The latter and hoe-rake ridger ensure environmentally friendly mechanical weeding on the ridge sides. The eco ridger scrapes off the weeds, applies a fine layer of soil and finishes by reforming the ridges. The hoe-rake ridger, on the other hand, ensures a deeper removal of the weeds, which makes it very efficient for use in root cultivation. The speed ridger uses large ridging discs to create large, tightly formed ridges when there is no need for a driven soil cultivation.

The newly introduced foldable ridger was designed to meet the increase in scale in bio cultivation and the increasing demand for a complementary cultivation operation in conventional farming. It can remove weeds from even more ridges in one working passage, saving both time and costs.

During the previous season, the prototypes were submitted to stringent tests and were subsequently approved. For the 2021 season machines are available starting now.