Energy demand and distribution of corn seeds as a function of the speed of two seedrills

This work had the objective of evaluating the distribution uniformity of corn seed in two displacement speeds and two precision seedrills, in an experiment conducted in a Oxisol, with slightly inclined relief in a loamy soil. The experimental design was constituted of four treatments composed of two seeders (S1 - PSE 8/Semeato and S2 - PST 2/Super Tatu) and two velocity of seedrills (V1 = 5.2 and V2 = 8.1 km h-1). The mean value of the traction force in the bar was 9.6 kN for S1 and 8.07 kN for S2, while the slippage was 5.83 and 4.26%, for S1 and S2, respectively. The values obtained for distribution uniformity of seeds of the seeder S1 in the speeds V1 and V2 were 21.6 and 22.0, and for the seeder S2 18.0 and 19.0 cm respectively, which did not differ statistically; however for the two displacement speeds a tendency of increase of the spacing among plants with the speed increase was verified.

fertilizer seedrills; displacement speed; distribution of seeds