Tempo F 6-8
6-8
30 in
>100hp
2 bu
Excellent responsiveness
The Tempo F is a trailed high-speed planter, available with 6 or 8 row units and optional granular fertilizer hopper. The placement and design of the support wheels maintain the seed depth in all conditions, which ensures an even crop. The Tempo F offers high fertilizer capacity with individual row shut-off, resulting in maximum uptime and fertilizer savings.
The Väderstad Tempo is a new generation high-speed planter, delivering unmatched precision at double the speed of traditional planters. No-till, min-till or conventional tillage – the Tempo performs exceptionally well in all conditions. It gives your crop the best start possible with even emergence.
Selected features
Impressive depth control
To ensure optimal depth control, the Tempo F is equipped with hydraulic support wheels mounted between the row units. This avoids any tilting in hilly conditions. The wide tire profile maintains consistent working depth irrespective of soil type, while the large diameter ensures a smooth ride at high speeds, improving planting precision.
Intelligent wheel ground pressure
The eight-row Tempo F 8 has four support wheels which are coupled as a walking tandem hydraulic bogie unit.
This ensures that the load on all wheels is the same in the field, giving the machine a smoother ride on uneven ground.
High-precision planting for every farm
The Tempo is designed to fit most tractors. It has a low hydraulic requirement, offers self-sufficient electric power and requires low horsepower.
The Tempo F can be equipped with an optional PTO-driven fan to reduce tractor hydraulic requirements, while maintaining high-precision planting performance.
High-capacity fertilizer hopper
The Tempo F can be equipped with a large granular fertilizer hopper and fertilizer opening coulters. Hopper capacity is 36 or 48 bushels, depending on model.
The hopper access is safe and easy with a platform, and a large opening improves filling time while reducing downtime in the field.
Electric motors enable variable fertilizer rates, offering higher yield potential with the same amount of fertilizer.
Row shut-off saves fertilizer
Like the seed meters, the fertilizer meters have individual row shut-offs. This maintains uniform rates throughout the field, even on irregular fields. The fertilizer is metered through short hoses for fast reaction time when the rows are turned on and off.
The individual row shut off provides equal conditions for each plant, which leads to even crop emergence while reducing fertilizer costs.
Minimal soil compaction
The advantage of a trailed planter is less weight placed on the tractor. With this reduced weight a smaller tractor with lower tire pressures can be used. The weight is distributed between the tractor and the planter which, in turn, reduces the amount of soil compaction. The benefit of this is a healthy soil structure and an even crop emergence.
Optimized accuracy with next-level automation
By upgrading the data processing capabilities of the planter, additional features to ensure accuracy in the field are unlocked. The optional features are curve compensation, active hydraulic downforce and auto singulation.
Curve compensation ensures a consistent rate
Active sensors communicate when the machine is turning and adjust the metering output of each row unit to always ensure a consistent rate over the full Tempo planter width.
Active hydraulic downforce enables furrow management
With the active hydraulic downforce system, Tempo instantly reacts to changes in soil conditions, always maintaining the set optimum row unit pressure.
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Auto singulation monitors and optimizes
With automatic motors on each row unit, seed singulation is continuously monitored and optimized. This saves time and increases the productive time in the field.
Full control at your fingertips
The iPad-based control system, Väderstad E-Control, wirelessly delivers data about each seed that travels through the planter, including seeding quality, skips, doubles, spacing and rate.
You benefit from user-friendly remote setup and calibration, as well as easy, real-time monitoring and control.
Through the iPad, you can download the most recent software updates, allowing your system to always stay current with future developments.
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The Tempo planter - take precision to a new level
The Tempo features individually controlled row units and a control system completely designed to deliver the most out of the planter. It evolves precision and planting performance even further.
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3D Precision
The Tempo delivers unmatched planting precision in three dimensions – Length, depth, and width.
1. In-row precision: Exact spacing between each seed in the row
2. Depth precision: Consistent seed depth
3. End-of-row precision: Individual row shut-off of the seed and fertilizer -
In-row precision
The Tempo seed meter, together with the PowerShoot, guarantees that each seed is placed one-by-one with extreme accuracy in the furrow.
By providing even plant spacing, without skips and doubles, the Tempo delivers very high in-row precision. This means all plants are given the same growing conditions from the start.
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Depth precision
The Tempo planter has a heavy-duty design, transferring high weight to the row units. This ensures a stable ride with maintained planting depth in all conditions.
The exact depth precision leads to even germination which, in turn, is critical to growing strong and healthy crops with great yield potential. -
End-of-row precision
Each row unit on the Tempo planter is electrically driven with GPS-controlled individual row shut-off capabilities.
By eliminating overlaps on headlands and irregular field areas, potential yield losses are avoided while reducing input costs by 5-10%. The Tempo offers section control for seed, fertilizer and micro granulates.
PowerShoot - Precision at high speeds
On traditional planters, the seed falls freely through the seed tube from the seed meter down to the soil. When vibrations arise as the speed increases, the seed bounces in the seed tube, reducing the precision of the seed meter.
This is where Tempo, with its pressurized seed meter, stands out from the crowd.
Thanks to the PowerShoot technology, which uses air pressure to maintain full control of the seed all the way down to the soil, gravity is removed from the equation, meaning that speed is not an issue for the Tempo.
One machine - Multiple crops
Corn, soybeans, sugarbeets, sunflowers, canola, cotton, sorghum and many more – the Tempo is capable of planting a full range of crops with excellent results. By easily changing the row spacing and machine setup for different crops, the Tempo offers superior versatility on the farm. The result is increased efficiency and minimized machine costs per acre. Changing the seed discs can be done in a matter of seconds without the need for tools.
Excellent in all crops
The small seeds kit, which includes suspended stop wheels and the ability to adjust the closing wheel angle, ensures excellent results when planting small-seeded crops, such as canola and sugarbeets. This improves yield and increases the versatility of the Tempo high-speed planter.
The Tempo planter - take precision to a new level
The Tempo features individually controlled row units and a control system completely designed to deliver the most out of the planter. It evolves precision and planting performance even further.
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Row-by-row shut-off
To avoid overlap planting, each row unit can be shut-off one at a time. This can either be controlled manually or using GPS and ISOBUS Task Controller. This feature saves seed and input costs, especially in irregular fields.
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Easy-to-use tram lining
Tempo makes tram lines simpler and more reliable than ever before with E-Control. When planting a field, the Tempo can automatically shut off specific row units when needed to match the sprayer tire tracks.
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Individual calibration
The Tempo is the obvious choice for seed growers. Since the row units are individually electric driven, the same machine can plant multiple seed varieties at different rates and row spacings. It is set up and monitored using E-Control.
No-till, min-till or conventional tillage
The Tempo is capable of planting with up to 716.5 pounds of down pressure. This enables high-speed planting in a wide range of field conditions and tillage systems.
To save moisture and increase capacity during busy periods on the farm, it can plant directly into stubble or corn stalks. Thanks to the heavy-duty row unit and effective row cleaners, the Tempo delivers perfect results in all conditions.
Optimal seed-to-soil contact
When the seed leaves the seed tube, it is stopped by the press wheel.
The press wheel fulfils two important tasks: it stops the seed at the exact intended spot and then presses it into moist soil. This ensures optimal seed-to-soil contact and fast, even germination.
Built for high speed
Every component of Tempo is designed for high-speed planting with minimal service requirements.
All joints in the row unit are maintenance-free, and the heavy-duty parallel linkage is designed to transfer weight to the row unit. The frame, row unit, fan and hydraulics all have a robust design, resulting in a durable, versatile and easy-to-maintain planter that fits the requirements of your farm.
Product concept
Zone 1 - Fertilizer placement (option)
Fertilizer opening coulters and a large fertilizer hopper make it possible to precisely band fertilizer while planting the crop.
Fertilizer kit
Zone 2 - Row cleaners (option)
Row cleaners are optional on the Tempo. They're used to remove crop residue, clods and rocks ahead of the disc openers. The need to use row cleaners is much higher when planting into no-till conditions or other fields with large amounts of residue.
Floating row cleaners
Zone 3 - Seed placement
With the Tempo, planting can be done at very high speeds without compromising precision and accuracy. The seed meters ensure perfect placement for every seed, which is key to maximizing yield.
0.6-inch seed system
0.9-inch seed system
Micro granulate kit
Small seeds kit
Zone 4 - Closing
After the seed is planted, the closing wheels cover the seed trench, creating perfect conditions for germination. Several industry-standard, third-party closing wheel solutions can also be used, depending on the needs of each farm.
Narrow closing wheel 1"
Wide closing wheel 2"
Treaded closing wheel 2"
Pointed closing wheel
Spiked closing wheel
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Specifications
| Tempo F | 6 | 8 |
| Number of rows | 6 | 8 |
| Row spacing, in (mm) | 30 (700-800) | 30 (700-800) |
| Working width (ft) | 13.8-15.7 | 18.4-21 |
| Transport width (ft.) | 9.8-10.8 | 9.8-10.8 |
| Transport height (m) | 9.8-10.5 | 11.5-12.5 |
| Volume seed hopper per row unit (bu.) | 2 | 2 |
| Volume micro granulate hopper per row unit (bu.) | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Weight with combi (lbs) | 6173-7275 | 8378-9259 |
| Weight without combi (lbs) | 4630-5953 | 6173-7496 |
| Coulter pressure max (lbs) | 716.5 | 716.5 |
| Recommended working speed (mph) | 6-10.6 | 6-10.6 |
| Hydraulic requirements | 1-3+FR | 1-3+FR |
| Oil flow requirements (l/min) | 110 | 110 |
| Horsepower requirements | 100 | 140 |
| Väderstad has made every attempt to accurately portray our product lineup. However, due to our commitment to continually innovate our technologies to provide our customers the best possible products, some products may not be manufactured as shown on this site. Exact specifications for each product will be confirmed at the time of ordering. |
| LS = Load sensing | FR = Free return | DA = Double acting | ||
| H = Hydraulic | P = Pneumatic | N/A = Not available |
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