2016

Rapid appeared at a time when farming was regarded as unimportant and was unprofitable. In 1991, when Rapid was launched, the political situation was directly counterproductive for Sweden’s farmers. Farmers were a burden - you could get food in the shops, people reasoned, even at high levels in government, and farmers were offered money to switch over to golf courses, for example.

A new, more airtight seed meter and alternative seed tubes provide the Tempo precision drill with even more possibilities, while the reinforced bearings on the new discs reduce the need for maintenance.

Väderstad has delivered approx. 40 Tempos, mainly the Tempo V, to Holland. The three-point linkage Tempo V fulfils a need for easily manoeuvered precision seed drills that can be simply manoeuvred to plant all areas of small or irregularly shaped fields. With an hectare cost of €60,000 per hectare, every single square metre must be used optimally.