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22.10.2019
Turbosem drill does a good job all over Ukraine
Agro-Soyuz hosted the international conference “No-Till Laboratory: field practice” on its farm in Mayskoye village on May 30-31, 2019. This was the largest event of this kind both in Ukraine and in former Soviet countries in terms of geography and number of participants. About 300 farmers from 6 countries (Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Bulgaria and Russia) took part in NTLab-2019.
The team of Soyuz-Spectechnika LLC (Agro-Soyuz Holding’s factory, which manufactures agricultural machinery) visited 5 farms in different regions of Ukraine: Nikolayev region (Oasis farm), Kirovograd region (SVS farm), Sumy region (Shevchenko Farm), Dnipro region (Edelweiss 2 farm) and Lugansk region (Krasnianske farm). These are the farms where our Turbosem drills work. The aim of the trip was to obtain customers’ feedback regarding operation of the drills and make video clips about the farms and machinery.
According to our customers, Turbosem drills do a good job in seeding grains, legumes, small-grains, canola and even sunflower. Of course, the best situation for Turbosem is direct seeding. Yet, the machine is very efficient under minimum till and in some instances – under conventional tillage.
Many farmers see advantages of No-till technology and resource-saving machinery. For example, Oasis farm drilled winter canola under No-till technology late in August (single-disc Turbosem drill, working width – 6 meters). “Of course, it was late, we missed the seeding window, missed the valuable moisture. Completely our fault! We received only 15 mm of rainfall during the vegetation period, and we didn’t expect any more rain to come. However, at least 40 percent of canola “took off” and I think this emergence was good, especially, when we compared with our conventional neighbors. They’ve got large cracks on their fields and the stand quality is much worse. By the way, when we were seeding canola they have already had the stand. They managed to “catch” 22 mm of August rain”, – Gennady Sobko said.
Brief summary of our Turbosem trip: the machine is really all-purpose. It does a good job under No-till technology, after disc harrow; it’s reliable and allows to perform seeding within the optimum dates. We received a very positive feedback and will continue supporting our customers at each stage of cooperation!
