REGINA — Growers who own a SeedMaster Nova air cart can now use it to spread fertilizer with the company’s new Nova Flex fertilizer application bar.
“All we are trying to do is add value to their already significant investment in the Nova and not have them go out and buy a purpose built machine to meter the product,” said SeedMaster’s Trent Meyer.
The fertilizer application bar was designed to switch over in less than an hour.
“It’s a simple plug and play system with a few settings to change on your monitor to go from drill to flex,” Meyer said.
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The standard Nova Flex is 70 feet wide and has 10 sections, each with four outlets. This allows operators to use their Flex’s overlap controls, exactly as they do with the SeedMaster drill.
Meyer said the bar worked well at 10 m.p.h. and was able to apply more than 350 pounds of product per acre.
The Nova Flex is offered in both tow-between and tow-behind models.
The introductory price for the tow-behind unit, which goes with the tow-between tank, is approximately $40,000. The introductory price for the models that go with the tow-behind tank is $54,000.
The Nova Flex folds down to 20 feet wide for transport.
Meyer said using the same Nova technology while spreading can simplify an operation because operators can keep the same monitor in the cab and they don’t have to learn how to run a new machine.
“Especially when you come down to hired people, and different people running the same unit, the amount that you can limit change really speaks to your ability to keep moving,” Meyer said.
