TopCut cutting roller combination

• The straw is cut, broken up, shredded and mixed with fine soil on the surface using the tools – creating optimum conditions for good decomposition.
• Surface mixing with fine soil generates optimal germination conditions for volunteer grain and weeds as a stale seedbed. Once the volunteer grain or weeds have emerged, they can be controlled even more effectively.
• Straw distribution after the combine harvester is improved by driving at an angle with the TopCut equipped with the straw harrow. This reduces the risk of hair-pinning and improves field emergence.
• Ultra-shallow cultivation breaks the capillarity in the top layer of the soil, thereby reducing evaporation, whilst the organic layer on the top protects the soil from erosion.

• Crushing, shredding and chopping the organic matter across the entire surface promotes decomposition and combats fungal diseases and pests, such as the corn borer beetle, thereby improving field hygiene.
• Thanks to ContourFrame, TopCuts offer optimum ground adaptation – even on hilly terrain
• Compared to a mulcher, the TopCut offers much greater impact with lower fuel consumption and lower wear costs. Root balls and laid stubbles can also be moved, improving the resulting outcome.
• The operational reliability of the subsequent operations is significantly increased, particularly with sunflower stubble.

• Effective shredding of winter-hardy and non-winter-hardy catch crops with high impact force.
• No "mashing" of active plants.
• Stimulating decomposition of organic matter improves nutrient availability.
• A slow pass through with the TopCut can limit the growth of active plants and prevent them from becoming too lush or premature flowering, without destroying them.

Mechanical weed control – TopCut with harrow:

• Weeds are pulled out of the soil by the harrow.
• Weed roots are pulled up with the harrow and loosely spread over the surface.
• Insufficient soil contact causes the exposed plants to 
• dry out quickly.

Seedbed preparation – TopCut with packer rollers

The cutting roller combination produces fine soil and the ground is reconsolidated with the KWM wedge ring roller with Matrix tyre profile or DW disc roller – the ideal seedbed.
Optimum germination conditions for the cash crop or volunteer seeds and weed seeds in a stale seedbed scenario.