SCT
SCT

SECTIONAL CONTROL TECHNOLOGY (SCT)

Sectional Control Technology (SCT) is an innovative way to eliminate overlaps and save on input costs. Sectional Control Technology works in conjunction with GPS and autosteer to lift openers when seeded ground is encountered and shut down metering of seed and fertilizer. This reduces ground disturbance and doubling up of inputs.

  • Save on input costs
  • Reduct costs by as much as 10% depending on the width of your toolbar and the variability of your land.
  • Plant stands are more uniform
  • More uniform harvest by eliminating green or lodged areas due to over fertilized headslands.
  • Eliminates over fertilized areas that lodge and plug the seeder the following year.
  • Increased yields by eliminating double seeding of overlaps.
  • makes large machines as versatile as small machines.
  • Easy to operate
  • The system automatically starts and stops at the head
  • lands when turning with no flipping of switches or moving levers.

Sectional Control Technology can be paired with all three forms of fertilizer - granular, liquid and anhydrous ammonia. Manual override keeps openers off and up, or openers on and down in the seeding position.

The section size that is turned on and off is determined by the size of the distribution head. For example, with a 64-foot wide drill and 12-inch spacings, one section would have eight runs (openers) per head. The drill would then have 8, 8-foot sections of 8 openers each.

 

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Pat Beaujot, President of Seed Hawk, shares his experience of seeding using Sectional Control Technology with a prototype 50 foot, 15 inch spacing toolbar in the spring of 2008.

Pat's initial experience was overwhelmingly positive. "As a farmer I've been frustrated having small unseeded areas that cause big overlaps. When the R&D team started to work on it we were quickly hooked on the idea. But when I first saw this technology work in the field I was blown away. And as farmers add width to increase efficiency this technology becomes even more valuable."

The lay of our land is not straight back and forth, we have a lot of wedges and last-pass overlaps. Our 84- foot drill with SCT really pays. On our 10,000 acre farm using conservative numbers, we feel that we will save about $50,000 on crop inputs a year using Seed Hawk’s Sectional Controll Technology.” Dwayne Wolf, Wolf Farms, Wapella, SK