TESTIMONIAL

CONTROL 5 TANKS WITH X20!

SOUTH AFRICA, June 9, 2005: Minimum-till farmers Jannie Baard (left) and Kobus Baard (right) control five (5) tanks with their X20 controller thanks to the new MINI ECU developed by Topcon Precision Agriculture.

Jannie and Kobus are near the towns Swellendam and Heidelberg in the Western Cape of South Africa, a winter rainfall area similar to the wheat-belt in Western and Southern Australia.

Planting crops like wheat, barley, oats, canola, and lucerne and also breeding ostriches, the Baard's use a DBS Multistream Airseeder built by Agri-Phyto in Albertinia under license from AUSPLOW, a Western Australian manufacturer of high-precision seeding equipment.

The five tank airseeder has 4 x 2000 litre tanks and 1 x 280 litre tank. The first two tanks are dedicated to dry fertilizer or seed, the third tank can be swapped between dry and liquid fertilizer, the fourth tank is dedicated for chemical spraying and the fifth tank is for fine seeds.

The X20 Precision Agriculture system controls the five tanks simultaneously with Variable Rate Control while also doing guidance, going round and round most of the time. Guidance is very important to Jannie and Kobus Baard to prevent double seeding and missed areas and also enabling them to work in the thick mist they experience in the Western Cape. The interactive color coverage and prescription maps on the X20 showing the applied area is a great feature especially in low visibility conditions.

Christo Helm, South African Manager said, "Jannie and Kobus really find the fifth tank enhances their flexibility in planting. Like many other farmers and contract planters and applicators around the world our customers are often confronted with different situations on each farm or from field-to-field or even in different planting rotations. Jannie and Kobus also find the X20 to be very user friendly and easy-to-use. They also use the X20 to automatically log the application data, maps and details of each job enabling recording of the precision application of seed, fertilizer and chemicals."

About Topcon Precision Agriculture.
Topcon Precision Agriculture is a privately held company that develops and manufactures innovative electronic control, rugged computer solutions and precision agriculture software. With offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States Topcon Precision Agriculture is at the forefront of Precision Agriculture globally with it's powerful and fully integrated control, monitoring, navigation and assisted-steering system known as X20. Topcon also has a complete range of control and monitoring devices for the OEM market.

For more information contact Carlie Eldredge at info@Topcontechnologies.com or South African Manager Christo Helm at Christo@Topconsa.co.za

To express interest in becoming a dealer call +61 8 8203 3300

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