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Busa rotary row weeder/hoe: Rotors are the new herbicide

A slightly different way of mechanical weed control, the powered rotors on the Busa shear off any organic material growing above the surface. And it does this in no-tilled crops, too. Farmer Franz Grötschl has taken over distribution in the German-speaking markets, and we had the opportunity to use the four-row cultivator on his farm in Austria, hoeing a knee-high crop of maize and in a mixed crop of maize, soyabean and sunflowers.

The weeds, mainly

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