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COVER STORY: Crisis Cleanup

Having just managed to rise from their knees, Russian farmers were overtaken by the new problem, that is the liquidity crisis. Every day news come that this or that company failed to cover put option on its bond, was denied a loan or had to freeze a project. With these events happening, one cannot think of purchasing new machinery or equipment, not to talk about production upgrade or use of intensive technologies. Today an agricultural producer has one task – to survive.

Plant Growing

Test Drive

Agricultural

Telescopic Handler

JCB 531-70 Agri p. 16

During the last several years telescopic handlers have been increasingly replacing outdated specialised machines. The reason is that such handlers are universal, “long-handed”, rather small and quite mobile. In this issue, we present 531-70 Agri by the UK company JCB, which was the first to begin production of telescopic handlers about 30 years ago. The model we are talking about is the most-used by the Russian farmers, according to experts.

Machinery

Sowing Is a Precise

Work p. 20

Agriculture development assumes implementation of new technologies which help to effectively use current resources, and thus requires modern machinery. Precision seeding for tilled crops and sowing machines allow to spend seeds and fertilizers competently, save fuel and labour, increase crop capacity and product quality.

Technologies

Progress in

Degradation p. 27

Russia has the third largest degraded land area in the world. More than that, every year new lands become infertile because of the usage of wrong agricultural machinery. This has become a grave problem but Russian environment protection organisations still have no soil protection programmes while government actions have failed to prevent the alarming trend.

Despite Records p. 34

In the last season Russia produced more than 100 mln metric tons of grain, specialists claim. On the one hand, a record figure for decades indicates the sector growth, but on the other hand can spur big economic troubles. What will happen, that is the question that worries no only farmers but the whole society.

Equipment

Hothouse Chaos p. 40

Growing vegetables in hothouses is popular in Russia. But despite active construction of them in the past five years, the total hothouse area is not growing. That because old Soviet-time structures shut down. This is a troubling situation making farmers to vacillate what is more profitable, reconstruction of the old hothouses or purchase of the new ones.

Cattle Breeding

POINT OF VIEW P. 46

Our new section «Point of View» presents Andrei Danilenko, Russian Farms president. It is not economically viable to put more than 3,000 heads of cattle at one ground, goes his argument based on his own experience. Danilenko supports his claims with figures.

TECHNOLOGIES

Ration Calculation p. 48

Absolutely all specialists agree that today it is impossible to run a highly efficient cattle breeding farm without use of the ration calculation software. In practice, however, computer technologies struggle to find their way into agricultural companies. The situation is especially grave at the cattle breeding farms.

Equipment

Advanced Milking p. 53

A year ago collective farm Plemzavod Rodina in the Vologda Region installed the Russia-first robot milker VMS by the Swedish company DeLaval. Since then, the voluntary milking technology, as its authors call it, has won a number of supporters. If you reequip your farm, it makes sense to use the most advanced technology, they claim. In our conditions, it is much more useful to have a milking parlour or a time-proved milking pipeline, opponents believe.

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