Agriculture is a tough business, and you need a scale that’s just as tough. You can depend on Adam scales to handle the demands of farm life. With an intuitive, simple-to-operate Adam scale, you’ll be able to quickly and easily handle repetitive weighing tasks.
Weighing solutions designed to grow your business.
There’s more to agriculture than just farming. It’s a science and Adam has you covered there, too, with analytical balances, precision balances and moisture analyzers for tasks like soil analysis.
Compact balances and bench scales are perfect for portioning feed or medication for livestock to ensure their health, as well as measuring seed batches.
Adam offers weighing devices with fast stabilization times and checkweighing applications to keep farm operations running smoothly.
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Floor Scales for the Agriculture Industry
Floor scales are larger capacity scales that are ideal for industrial environments, manufacturing and warehouses. Like smaller bench scales, they’re available in varieties like washdown scales, trade-approved scales, counting scales and checkweighers.
Bench Scales
Bench scales are compact weighing scales that are small enough to be used on a bench or countertop. Varieties of bench scales include IP-rated washdown scales, trade-approved scales, counting scales and checkweighing scales.
Crane Scales for the Agriculture Industry
Referred to as either crane scales or hanging scales, these heavy-duty suspension scales allow extremely large loads like fishing nets, containers and crates to be weighed in the air while the operator maintains a safe distance.
Trade Approved Scales
Approved scales are legally required when pricing is based on weight (i.e., €10 per kilogram or $5 per pound). Approvals such as NMI, EU, NRCS, NTEP and Measurement Canada vary by country or region.
Analytical Balances
Semi-micro and analytical balances weigh in extremely small increments, typically 5 decimal places (0.00001g) for semi-micro and 4 decimal places (0.0001g) for analytical balances.
Precision Balances
Precision balances weigh in increments up to 3 decimal places (0.001g) and are available without draft shields (top loaders) or higher-sensitivity models with draft shields to mitigate disruptions from air currents.
Compact Balances
Compact balances are lightweight and easy to operate, often portable and can be powered by either AC adapter or battery, making them perfectly suited for field operation.
Moisture Analysers
Employing the basic "loss-on-drying" technique to simultaneously weigh and heat the sample, moisture analyzers provide a faster alternative to the time-consuming method of oven testing.
Industry insights
Scales and Balances for Agriculture
Weighing instruments are often used throughout agriculture, from the science of soil to weighing harvests or even monitoring livestock. In this blog post, we’ll explain how scales are used in farms and other agricultural settings.
Scales are used in many facets of agriculture and animal husbandry. In this post, we'll discuss how they're used during the production, sales, and consumption of hay. Buyers and sellers alike can reap the benefits of weighing hay in sales transactions and when measuring animal feed.
How Laboratory Balances are Used in Environmental Sciences
Environmental scientists focus on the planet and the environment, but what does that have to do with scales? Laboratory balances play a critical role in weighing soil, water, vegetation, metals and waste. They’re used to measure key factors in soil, water, air and vegetation to improve sustainability, conservation and predictions of environmental shifts like global climate change.
Agricultural weighing scales broadly includes any weighing instrument that can be used in an agricultural or farm setting. Because of the demands of the industry, agricultural scales are typically robust and durable in their design to hold up to environments where knocks, spillages and dirty conditions are commonplace.
Agricultural scales may be used on farms to weigh harvested crops, to portion feed or medication for livestock, to measure seed batches, as well as in labs for soil analysis and calculating the proper amount of pesticide usage for non-organic crops.
Regardless of industry, if goods are sold by weight, the scale used to calculate the price must be trade approved (also known as legal-for-trade). A trade-approved scale protects both the buyer and the seller by ensuring that each party is fairly compensated during the transaction. Some examples of products that require the use of trade-approved agricultural scales are goods such as animal feeds, packaged products that are sold by weight and certain food items (including fruits and vegetables).
Violators of the law risk fines or even jail time. Trade approvals are in place to protect the customer and ensure that they receive the correct amount of goods that they've purchased.
