Garford Farm Machinery Ltd. products

Garford inter-row cultivators are custom built to suit customer`s requirements. Garford have experience in models for all row crops. A wide range of shares are available including the traditional duck foot A share, flat A shares, L blades, and Garford`s specially developed Slash blade which ensures no “slip by” but also has good plant foliage clearance. See the brochure for the full range of tools including crop protection shields and discs.

An alternative to inter-row cultivators, the hooded sprayer can provide total weed kill between the rows without soil disturbance. Band widths between 10cm and 60cm can be accommodated with 2 choices of hood size and a special swivel action. The hooded sprayer units can be employed on their own or in combination with soil engaging crop protection shields if required. The hoods are supported on parallel linkage wheel units.

The accuracy of Robocrop guidance for your tractor. Robo-pilot facilitates integrating the Robocrop Precision Guidance System for tractor guidance. Unlike common automatic guidance systems, we use local positioning information to guide the tractor. The Robocrop camera views the crop ahead of the tractor and using a unique vision analysis program determines the exact centre of the crop row foliage to within millimetres. This enables for very high accuracy of crop row tracking and hence the tractor guidance.

The Garford Robocrop InRow Weeder uses tried and tested Robocrop video image analysis techniques to locate individual plants in order to mechanically remove weeds from the inter row and importantly within the crop row between the plants. Developed for use on transplanted crops such as lettuce, cabbage, celery etc Robocrop InRow can however be used on most crops that are planted with regular plant and row spacing where the plant foliage is clearly separated from the next plant.

Robocrop is the original and best crop imaging system which achieves excellent row following by viewing multiple crop rows over a large area. Utilising the Robocrop grid matching technique accurate row following is possible even on narrow row cereals and multi-line (carrot type) rows. Images are analysed at a rate of 30 frames per second and the direction of the hoe adjusted via a hydraulic side shift with anti-backlash action. Accuracy is generally 15mm at the camera or with the addition of soil engaging discs better than 10mm accuracy is possible.

Garfords have developed the In Row Weeder to be implemented to create the spot sprayer, a modified programme to seek out individual weeds growing in the crops. With the aid of specially developed nozzles, it sprays as a true spot sprayer, therefore reducing the chemical cost. Initially the machine is aimed at treating potatoes growing in carrots, parsnips, onions or leeks but the interest and usage requirements are spreading to general weed control in all varieties of crops.

The Garford Weedfoil / Weedwiper is a height dependant chemical applicator which uses a saturated felt pad to transfer systemic herbicide onto the weeds which are growing above the crop. A microcontroller based system maintains pad saturation via pad sensors and individual pump systems.