U865/9 potato ridger with Noctu Bomet profiling attachment

Thanks to the possibilities of modern agricultural machinery production, as well as technological advancements, farm work is becoming less taxing and more automated. For many farms, agricultural machinery is invaluable, both saving time and ensuring greater work efficiency.

Potato cultivation in Poland began in 1683, when King John III Sobieski brought potato tubers back from his Vienna expedition. Of course, potato cultivation has changed dramatically since then. This doesn't mean that those cultivation systems were bad, but time has certainly worked to its advantage. Today, both tuber harvesting and potato cultivation itself are largely mechanized. The consumer receives a clean product, often already packaged. Of course, this valuable agricultural machine, like the potato ridger, is designed for all inter-row crops for vegetables grown in ridges (potatoes, beets).

The selection of modern machines is vast. To make work much more efficient, potato topping is performed using a topper. This highly versatile device allows for a range of tasks to be performed more quickly and efficiently.

The Noctu potato ridger with a ridge profiling attachment is a machine that allows, as the name suggests, ridging potatoes, and this operation fulfills several important functions:

• scooping soil onto the lower parts of the stems and the root system of the potatoes
• loosening the soil
• weed removal

These days, it's hard to imagine any other type of potato cultivation than using a ridger. The Bomet potato ridger features a full-profiling attachment, which compacts and shapes the ridges. The attachment weighs 190 kg. The machine can be used standalone (requires a 38 HP tractor) or with an attached attachment.

The machine's first beam of the support frame is equipped with spring-loaded tines, which loosen the soil between the potato rows. Attached to the second beam are cultivating tines with coulters and bodies that cover the potato rows. The aforementioned shaping attachment is mounted at the rear on the attachment arms. It limits the tines' depth and shapes the ridges.

Ridging with the full attachment installed should be done from the moment the potatoes emerge, as later elements that smooth the ridge crest can cause damage to the plants. With elements arranged in three sections , the potato ridger is used to form two rows (2-row version).