Massey Ferguson tills and saves money!

Massey Ferguson tractors are world-renowned for their fuel-efficiency and superb power capacities. Our farmers, however, trust only their own eyes and experience, and AgroCentre is aware of that. For a number of years, the company has held regular farming machinery demonstrations at the facilities of Russian farming operations.

In this sowing campaign, SPK Koelginskoye farming operation (Chelyabinsk oblast) and AgroCentreZakharovo test-drove the Massey Ferguson 8690 tractor (370 hp) with the Challenger Sunflower 1435-30 Disc Harrow (9.2 m) attached. The result amazed the farmers.

Sergey Rovny, Chief Engineer of SPK Koelginskoye, describes:

‘After the tractor arrived at the field, an AgroCentre engineer attached the harrow and adjusted all the settings very promptly, and we got down to work. It is a really versatile tool.

We cultivated the field before planting maize – 80 hectares per shift – and were very happy with the quality: the field surface was perfectly levelled and the tillage depth matched the settings of 11 cm. The harrow was driven (“driven” is the key word here, not “dragged behind”) by the Massey tractor smoothly, evenly, without slipping.

This harrow was also trailed by domestically produced tractors and by a tractor of an American brand, all – 350 hp. Mind you, it was quite a challenge for them to be “in one harness” with the Sunflower!

However, most of all, we were fascinated by the fuel-efficiency! It is a high-power tractor with a considerable tillage depth, but it consumes, on average, 7.7 litres of fuel per hectare, which is 4.3 litres less than consumption of a domestically manufactured tractor, and 1.2 litres less than of the tractor of another foreign manufacturer, i.e. 344 litres and 96 litres per shift respectively. It is worth reviewing payback of machines. Are Russian tractors really so cheap? Are all imported machines equally fuel-efficient? Definitely, the Massey Ferguson excels at both perfect tilling and considerable money saving!’