__ Feldklasse weeding technology for cabbage, celery and fennel
Unsymmetrical plants? No longer a problem thanks to AI weeding technology!
Cabbages usually grow close to the soil surface before straightening up and forming a head. Fennel and celery often lean to one side. The challenge with such crops is opening and closing the selective blades at the right time without damaging them.
However, our ZURAMA AI camera system can still detect exactly where the plant emerges from the soil, even if it is growing at an angle.
This enables the selective knives to work close around the plant. It works with full precision, even in dense weed populations, at speeds of up to 5 km/h (3 mph)!
The hydraulically driven, selectively controlled blades offer powerful and dynamic performance. This allows us to provide you with the fastest actuator on the market.
This enables us to reduce the occurrence of weeds by 98%! It‘s better than any herbicide!
This means that even our customers involved in organic farming can manage without manual weeding.
ZURAMA tool configurations
Like all our weeding technology, the ZURAMA can be easily adapted to suit all row widths. For row spacings of 45 cm (18 in) or more, an additional machine unit is installed to which goosefoot shares can be attached to ensure inter-row weeding.
The clearance is currently 29 cm (11 in) high and 14 cm (5,5 in) wide. Starting in 2026, it will increase by 5 cm (2 in) in height and 10 cm (4 in) in width. This increase will allow large-volume plants, such as cabbage, to be weeded at later stages.
Application
The first weeding takes place 2–3 weeks after planting.
Weeding then continues at regular intervals until the weeds have grown to 4–6 leaves.
Once the crop has filled the row, the Zurama selective modules can be folded up, meaning that only the space between the rows needs to be weeded. The automatic row guidance system can still be used for this purpose.