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Horsch Avatar 4.16SD: Stealth drilling

Although the Avatar drill was only launched three years ago, it is already accounting for nearly a third of Horsch's seeder business in the UK and Ireland, the other two thirds being equally split between the Pronto disc coulter cultivator drill and the tine coulter equipped Sprinter. But even now, with many of the grants having come to an end, there is still a reassuring amount of interest in the notill drill range, as farmers look to minimise establishment costs for cover crops and then drill into this with the following cash crop.

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