PRE-REGISTRATION CLOSES 9/24 ON-SITE REGISTRATION AVAILABLE (Lunch not guaranteed for with on-site registration)
Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day returns Wednesday, September 27, 2023 to OSU Wooster Campus in Wooster, OH.
Opportunity for Illinois Farmers! The Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP) exists to provide technical assistance and wrap-around support for transitioning and existing organic farmers and has provided funding to cover admission for any Illinois farmers interested in attending this year’s event.
What to Expect
- In-field demonstrations of cultivation tools for vegetables and row crops
- Demonstrations of implements on both four-wheel and two-wheel tractors
- Expo featuring industry-leading cultivation companies and cutting edge tools
- Conversations with international cultivation experts
- …and more!
The field day connects farmers, machinery manufacturers, and the allied trades for a single day event that draws farmers from all over the US and Canada – because it is THE place to see weeding tools. The morning features a trade-show where companies can connect one-on-one with farmers, and educational sessions, and the afternoon features field demonstrations in vegetable and row crops.
Schedule Overview
8:00 am Registration, Check-in & Trade Show Opens
9:00 am Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:20 am Education Track & Trade Show
11:00 am Walk Behind Demonstrations
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Demonstrations
3:30 pm Wrap-up
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Row Crop Demonstrations
Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day features in-field demonstrations of cultivation tools for vegetables and row crops. You can expect demonstrations of all scales of weeding tools – hand tools, walk-behind tractors, 4-wheel tractors, camera-guided hitches, autonomous laser weeders, and more! Take a sneak peek at what you can expect to see at this year’s event!
TH Fabrication – Swinging Spider
“Proven concept, improved adjustability!”
Garford – Robocrop
“Robocrop is the original and best crop imaging system which achieves excellent row following by viewing multiple crop rows over a large area.”
Treffler – Tined Harrow
“The Treffler tine harrow is unrivaled in quality and precision, managing the weeds in all your vegetable and field crops.”
Henke Buffalo – Buffalo 6400 Cultivator
“The Buffalo Cultivator has to be tough. It was born over 30 years ago when Buffalo broke new ground with ridge till. It delivers the highest levels of quality, durability and performance of high-speed, high-residue conditions.”
Bay Shore Sales – Hatzenbichler Air Flow tine weeder
“The spring action of the tines is provided by a pneumatic cylinder with a spring travel of only 30 mm, which enables a 45° spring path of the tines.”
Lowe & Young – Einbock Row Guard Camera – Guided Cultivator
“This camera steering system guides the row-crop cultivator with absolute precision, even at high speeds.”
Accura Flow – 6-Row Tractor-guided Cultivator
“This camera steering system guides the row-crop cultivator with absolute precision, even at high speeds.”
Lemken – Compact Disc Harrow Rubin 12
Rubin 12 high speed disc features 29 inch concave blades with a symmetrical disc arrangement mounted on spring loaded arms. This configuration provides precise directional stability by eliminating side draft and improving efficiency. Our patented duel angled blades are positioned with a 20 degree to the
ground angle and 16 degrees in the direction of travel on the front row and 14 degrees on the back row.
This provides optimal penetration and ensures cultivation over the whole working width of the disc.
Behind the front row of discs the integrated rebound harrow ensures intensive mixing and crumbling in
the soil and residue. LEMKEN’s wide range of integrated rolling baskets offer precise depth control as well as a smooth level firm finish. Full hydraulic depth and leveling adjustment provides quick and easy setup. The Rubin 12 is an open frame design which allows high amounts of organic matter in high yielding crops to flow freely while maintaining a flat tillage floor. Rubin 12 provides working depths up to 8 inches and is offered in widths up to 31 feet. LEMKEN offers a full range of high speed discs for any crop in any application please come see us for more information at booth.
Troy Acres – Rotary Hoe
Accura Flow – Row Crop Cultivator
“The Accura Flow Row Crop Cultivator is a rear mounted revolutionary designed
weed control tillage system. As the name suggests it was designed with
accuracy at the forefront of all the design build decisions. Ease of adjusting and
durability were also top priorities. No short cuts in materials or workmanship
were allowed.
The machine has multi-dimensional wrench-less settings allowing the operator
ease in controlling the accuracy, placement and volume of soil flow to the field crop so weeds and grass can be effectively covered up. The end goal is to
reduce or eliminate yield robbing weeds and grass, protecting high value
organic row crops increasing the bottom line.”
Vegetable Demonstrations
Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day features in-field demonstrations of cultivation tools for vegetables and row crops. You can expect demonstrations of all scales of weeding tools – hand tools, walk-behind tractors, 4-wheel tractors, camera-guided hitches, autonomous laser weeders, and more! Take a sneak peek at what you can expect to see at this year’s event!
Tilmor – Tilmor 520Y and Power Ox 240
“Tilmor 520Y cultivating tractor with a Basket weeder, A-blade Finger weeder implement and Einbock Tine weeder on the rear, possibly a Thiessen steerable toolbar, and a PowerOx walk-behind tractor.”
Garford – Camera Guided InRow Weeder
“The Garford Robocrop InRow Weeder uses tried and tested Robocrop video image analysis techniques to locate individual plants in order to mechanically remove weeds from the inner row and importantly within the crop row between the plants.”
Terratek – Cultitrack
“Designed for diverified market gardening, it is a straddle that can undertake all the seeding work.”
Terratek – KULT Duo
“Kult Duos cutaway discs, edge of plastic cultivator offers precision weed control within an inch of the row.”
Terratek – Brush Hoeing Machine for Plastic Mulch
“The Terrateck brush hoeing machine can be used to perform precise mechanical weeding in a single pass that removes weeds by the mechanical action of the hydraulic brush. This keeps the strips of plastic mulch clean and requires no manual weeding, which can often be physically demanding and cause significant musculoskeletal disorders.”
Sutton Ag – IC-Light Camera-guided Cultivator
“The IC-Light steering system allows for faster, more accurate cultivation than traditional, manual steer cultivators.”
Small Farm Works – Japanese Magic Weeder
“The Magic Cultivator (that’s a direct translation from the Japanese) is a hand-torsion weeder featuring two adjustable sprung wires that run right in the row followed by two sharpened blades and then a pair of tine rakes. This tool is designed to help remove in-row weeds and weeds very close to the row.”
Carbon Robotics – LaserWeeder
“The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder™ implement uses precision computer vision and sophisticated AI to kill weeds with millimeter accuracy. Laserweeding delivers consistency that puts growers back in control of their schedules amid labor shortages, chemical complexity, and rising costs. For high-density crops, laserweeding is the only automated solution. Designed in Seattle and built in Detroit, it’s the future of weed control.”
Maschio – Stone Burier Tiller
“The choice for landscaping operators using compact tractors and home owners that use it for intensive projects. The quick hitch compatibility simplifies the connection with the tractor and the reverse blades rotation improves the incorporation of residue and stones.”
BCS America – BSC Tractor with Tiller with PDR attached Power Harrow V-Cultivator Plastic Mulch Layer Flail Mower Rotary Plow SickleBar Mower Utility Trailer / Buddy Cart
“BCS Tractors cut hay, grass, cover crops, brush, saplings, and more with six different types of mowing attachments.”
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Can’t Wait Until September? Check out these videos from Past Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Days!
2020 [virtual series]
Episode 1: Drone Wars
Jared Oomen of Oomen Farms, Ltd. discusses multiple cultivation implements and the set-up of a camera-guided cultivator in his shop in Hart, MI.
Episode 2: The Awakening
Sam Oschwald Tilton guides us through considerations for tool set-up in Peter Seely’s shop at Springdale Farm in Plymouth, WI.
Episode 3: The First Encounter
Sam Oschwald Tilton and Peter Seely discuss weed challenges and solutions from Peter’s farm in Plymouth, WI.