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Closed Issue

In recent years, media frequently highlighted large companies’ intentions to begin biofuel production. However, it all ended in talk. Without government support, biofuel production in Russia is unprofitable, farmers and experts claim. While biogas plants or wind farms will take many years to break even that makes them economically unattractive. Other new alternative energy sources such as microalga fuel or solar batteries are envisaged today only by romantics.

Plant Growing

TEST DRIVE

Cultivators

Terrano FX p. 20

Thanks to a three-row layout, universal cultivators Terrano FX are used for both surface stubble cultivation and intensive cultivation which mixes stubble remains, with operating depth of 5 to 30 centimeters. Here, we consider the most productive, in farmers’ opinion, versions of the cultivator, namely Terrano 6 FX and Terrano 8 FX.

MACHINERY

Effective Foraging p. 24

Russian forage machinery market is changing. On the one hand, higher import tariffs on forage harvesters led to higher prices and, consequently, lower demand. On the other hand, domestic producers have got effective government support and the process of purchasing of Russian equipment was simplified.

TECHNOLOGIES

Divide And Rule p. 30

Two-phase (divided, or separate) and single-phase (direct combining) methods have one and the same aim, to harvest crops with minimal loss. Usually farmers go just one way and consider the chosen method as the only correct one.

Grass Is Worth Its

Weight in Gold p. 36

Today, it’s impossible to imagine a successful cattle breeding farm without its own forage reserve. It absolutely does not pay to outsource hay, all specialists agree, besides there is no such market in the country. In such situation every farm works out its own way of efficient production of qualitative fodder grass.

Equipment

Flour Industry Is in Trouble p. 41

Some time ago flour-grinding business was very popular in Russia. This brought so many mills that today companies are looking forward to their competitors to go under. Their wishes are understandable since if their neighbours don’t go bust, they will.

Cattle Breeding

TECHNOLOGIES

Targeted Substitution p. 46

Whole milk substitutes allow farmers to cut watering costs. But not all of them rush for substitutes. It’s impossible to completely replace natural product, some farmers believe, while mistakes in the usage of the whole milk substitutes in the beginning of animals’ life may bring negative consequences.

Point of View

Full-Fledged Cutting p. 52

Usually Russian companies only slaughter cattle. While in the west, this stage and initial processing are parts of a single technological process. Ultimately, it produces raw stuff in line with international standards of cutting, for meat processing industry and retail.

Waste Bank p. 56

The primary function of manure storages in cattle breeding complexes is to keep manure with the aim of disinfecting and dehelmintizating it as well as its accumulation in vegetation and winter periods when it is impossible to bring it into the fields. Manure storages differ in versions and volume which is chosen depending on the type of manure and the cattle headcount.

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