Fuel represents 30% of energy consumption in farming and is one of your farm’s highest annual expenses. The good news is that you can reduce the bill by making a few simple adjustments and by adopting the right overall management strategy.
It’s more a question of choice than a question of means. By following simple advice on a regular basis, you can improve your profitability and your revenues....
To reduce your agricultural tyre budget and prevent your tyres from wearing too rapidly you need to adapt your choice of tyre and adjust your tyres optimally, making it essential to know the loads applied to each axle of your vehicle. It is the load that effectively determines the degree of pressure to your tyres and as such their wear...
In general, your tractor’s pulling power is associated only with its engine power. However, tyres play a fundamental role in improving traction and are widely underestimated or neglected. It is the tyres which transmit your tractor’s power to the ground to generate the tractive force. Your tyres are therefore the sole link between vehicle and ground.
Are your certain that you always know your tractor’s braking capacity? When you drive with a full trailer, have you asked yourself what stopping distance is necessary in the event of emergency braking? Your tractor tyres play a decisive role in your capacity to brake rapidly and certain tyres can help you win a few meters whereas others require almost double the distance for your trailer to come...
Preparing the structure of the soil is vital to ensure your next crop emerges rapidly and regularly and to facilitate the circulation of vehicles and tooling. Unfortunately, a bad choice of tyre, incorrect tyre pressure or ill-adapted tyre size may squash your ploughing work and result in excessive soil compaction, leading to an uneven surface and overly compacted areas which will reduce the...
The use of power is not always compatible with soil preservation, even if there are numerous types of tyre on the market: radial tyres, high volume tyres or very high flexion (VF) tyres. These technologies allow you to work at low pressure; but wouldn’t dual wheels enable you to go further?
Harvest tyre technology can help you to improve the productivity of your combine harvester, find out how... Maintenance is obligatory for a good start-up and to ensure the machine is in top condition to guarantee a perfect harvest with no breakdowns.
When you start your spring cleaning, think about improving the performance of your harvester and simply by changing your tyres you can increase...
Do you really know how to establish the right slip ratio for your tractor? If the slip ratio is too low, the tractor cannot generate the right tractive force. On the other hand, if slippage is too high this will be very costly, since it increases your fuel consumption and wear to your tyres.
During wood hauling operations in the forest, choose forestry tyres that are adapted to your needs in order to improve work efficiency. During logging, once the trees have been cut, hauling operations take place to transport the felled trees to their storage area.
The forestry tyre represents a sensitive stage of operations. In the old days, wood hauling was done using horses, whereas nowadays...
