2 - agrotarna.lt

Czech Republic
Excelent Premium 8
18
Owners’ Experience
AGROSS Klíčany
900 ha
Bc. Ondřej Bačina, Owner
In spring 2009, I had the opportunity to try out the Excelent Premium 8
share sowing machine at my farm for the fi rst time. We tested the versatility
of the machine and its ability to level soil and prepare the seedbed in
a fi eld with several farming products and several methods of soil
processing including ploughing. I was impressed by the possibility to add
fertilizer to the seeds in the strips and with the possibility to use a divided
hopper of the sowing machine. The hopper is the largest one in this
category of sowing machines. We tried diff erent sowing machines
of various makes, such as Väderstad Rapid and Spirit, Pöttinger Terrasem
or Accord MSC. I also saw the Horsch, Kuhn and Lemken sowing machines
at my neighbours. However, we found the Farmet Excelent Premium
sowing machine to be the most interesting. In summer and autumn last
year, we tested the machine also on rape and winter wheat. We added
fertilizer to these crops, both standard urea and the UREA Stabil
nitrogenous fertilizer.
The fertilizer batch was from 50 to 300 kg/ha. The excellent quality of work
under dry conditions last autumn and the prime growth convinced us and
thus I bought the machine for my farm last year. This year we sowed spring
barley by the new technology, directly to the gross furrows without prior
processing with a single application of the nitrogen batch with the seeds
in the strips for the entire vegetation period. Once again, we tried standard
urea as well as UREA Stabil and other fertilizers, including mixed ones.
Thanks to the technology and early sowing, our yield exceeded net 8 t/ha.
Winter wheat then ranged from 10 t/ha. The application of fertilizer on
the same horizon with the seeds seems to be a very interesting solution to
us. It does not increase the tensile resistance of the sowing machine and
the sowing share only uncovers soil to the sowing depth. The technology
allows earlier operation in our heavier soils and reaching higher yields for
spring barley, which is one of our main crops. We are thinking of increasing
the working coverage of Excelent Premium from 6 to 8 meters in the
following season in order to increase the capacity of the set and to ensure
the fulfi lment of proper agricultural deadlines.