Sugar Beet Harvesting Innovation
True to the motto ‘Innovative, customer- and practice-oriented’, ROPA will be presented numerous innovations in potato and sugar beet technology at Agritechnica 2025 in Hanover.
The family-owned company from Lower Bavaria clearly illustrates how precise sensor technology, state-of-the-art hydraulics and practice-oriented machine concepts can further improve efficiency, sustainability and user-friendliness in harvesting technology.
Efficient and soil-friendly Tiger 6S with R-Flow and combined steer
The ROPA Tiger 6S is the a flasgship of sugar beet harvesting technology, considered the most powerful beet harvester in the world.
Its patented R-Soil Protect chassis provides maximum soil protection with the highest traction and driving comfort. The hydraulically coupled axle load distribution automatically transfers the load evenly to all wheels, thus reducing swaying movements by up to 2/3 and ensuring that the lifting unit remains precisely positioned at the correct height, even on slopes.
On slopes, the chassis remains horizontal on inclines of up to 10%, which significantly improves traction and stability. R-Soil Protect is a prime example of the ROPA’s systematic approach to sustainable soil protection and increased efficiency.
R-Flow is an intelligent system that manages the cleaning units and driving speed for maximum throughput
With R-Flow, ROPA introduces a new assistance system that monitors the cleaning units and automatically regulates the throughput.
If an overload is imminent, the system adjusts the speed of the cleaning units and, if necessary, reduces the driving speed to maintain the throughput at the specified maximum. This helps to avoid blockages, keeps harvesting performance at an optimum level and significantly reduces the workload for the driver.
The combined steer for extreme manoeuvrability and soil protection
It’s a new steering mode that combines U-turn steer and offset-steer in one smart operation. The combined mode offers the best of both steers: The maximum manoeuvrability of the U-turn steer and the soil-preserving characteristics of the offset-steer, which is usually activated when driving through the beet crop.
The articulation and rear axles follow the steering movements of the front axle, thus ensuring the usual agility. When driving straight ahead, the rear end automatically assumes an offset-steer position allowing the machine to react dynamically, turn precisely in tight spaces, and simultaneously protect the soil.
This steering mode can be activated at any time via a button, and the side to which the rear end should swing out can also be selected directly via the joystick. The combined steer allows you to return quickly to the row without manual switching, especially at the headlands. This results in a significant gain in efficiency and comfort.
Integrated joystick drive mode
The driver can choose whether to operate the machine as usually with the accelerator pedal or alternatively using the right joystick. The desired drive mode can be activated by pressing the corresponding button on the control panel. Thus, the machine can be operated even more simply and ergonomically either with the accelerator pedal or the joystick.
Interface for Agrarmonitor and ISOXML data
The customers who use Agrarmonitor software to manage, plan and invoice their vehicle fleets from different manufacturers can now transfer the telemetry data from their ROPA self-propelled machines (beet harvesters built in 2017 or later) live to Agrarmonitor via an interface.
In R-Connect, the order management for beet harvesters has been expanded by an ISOXML export function for each completed harvesting order.
All errors saved in the machine control system can now be displayed both in the myROPA platform and on the machine terminal. This helps machine owners and service partners to further increase availability and operational reliability.
This function is available as standard on Panther 2S, Tiger 6S, Maus 6 and Keiler 2.
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