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.
• Reduce costs by as much as 15% 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 headlands.
• 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 headlands 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.

TESTIMONIALS

"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 Control technology."

Dwayne Wolf, Wapella, Saskatchewan

"You get uniform emergence and it seems like every seed wants to grow.  Originally what drew us to a Seed Hawk was the uniform emergence, but what has impressed me is ability to seed in adverse conditions.  We were able to seed a lot of wet acres this year.

Through the Sectional Control I believe we've probably saved about eight and a half percent on our seed and fertilizer, this translates into about $170,000.00 in savings for our farm.  Sectional Control saves huge dollars on the bottom line."

Guy Cadrain, Leask, Saskatchewan

"I love Seed Hawk's SCT because of the fine tuning the operator can do, which minimizes seed and fertilizer overlaps. With fertilizer costs through the roof, reducing overlaps and wasted fertilizer adds up quickly! I really think the SCT drill is probably the best on the market. If other farmers give it a shot, they'd be really pleased with it."

Cody Blanchet, Dutton, Montana

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One recent Sectional Control convert is Dan Bonkowski. He farms 10,000 acres in the Wapella/Whitewood area, and after using local grower Dwayne Wolf’s Seed Hawk last year, he purchased his own 84-foot drill.

"I'd been looking for a bigger drill and I knew that Sectional Control was the way to go. It was pretty much a no-brainer to buy a Seed  Hawk," said Bonkowski, who used his new air drill to seed wheat, canola and barley this year. "My land is fairly sloughy. You wouldn't usually buy an 84-foot drill to seed it, but with the Sectional Control technology, you can do it."

Bonkowski, who had his new drill in the field mid-April, figures the Seed Hawk will save him money. "I expect that I’ll save upwards of $80,000 on my 10,000 acres using it. It’s basically like getting a free air-drill," he said. "Sectional Control technology sold me on a Seed Hawk. It’s just excellent!"