Exquisite production of machines of the future

During their visit to the Vaderstad factory in Sweden, the AgroCentre customers learnt where farming machines of the future are born and how to preserve, literally, every kernel.

Today’s progressive Russian farmers are hard to astonish. They visit international trade fairs and farm machinery factories worldwide. However, they were stunned by Vaderstad production facility. All the guests could not but admire the impressive level of automation and robotic applications, pinpoint accuracy of metalwork and the highest management of all production processes. A lot of them noted that it is not only high-technology, but also a truly exquisite production. The testing in the granite quarry allayed the last concerns about the quality and reliability of Vaderstad products.

The field demonstration displayed the whole range of manufactured products – cultivators, disc harrows and drills. Vaderstad offered another surprise and allowed the guests to observe the operating machines very closely: the trailer with the visitors was driving simultaneously with the farming machines, just two metres away, which enabled the guests to see in detail how the unit tools were working the soil, in other words, the working process was fully visualised.

The new Tempo planters became the highlight of the show. The 16-row TPL16 Combi had been debuted at Agritechnica trade fair in Hannover last autumn and some of the visitors were already familiar with the equipment. The first two units will arrive at Russian fields next year, and from 2018, the Tempo TPL16 will be widely available in Russia. The farmers are looking forward to it! Superb performance (operating at 15 – 18 km/h) and the highest seed placement quality is a marvelous combination ensuring maximum efficiency.

The 18-row Tempo TPR 18 planter with 45 cm row spacing can be transformed into a 12-row planter with 70 cm row spacing for sowing maize and sunflower. The machine drew the attention of operations that sow both sugar beets and row crops. It can plant in min-till conditions and apply fertilisers due to a front-mounted hopper. The machine will also be available in 2018.

The Russian visitors also evaluated the E-service system operation. Fitted optionally on grain drills and precision planters, it controls the number of seeds distributed equally into each row. The guests were eager to check the system performance on their own, counted a certain number of seeds, put them into the planter, and the system then counted and distributed the seeds accurately.

A lot of AgroCentre’s customers already have Vaderstad machines operating in their fields. For instance, Krasnaya Zvezda farming operation (Oryol oblast) has two Spirit drills it is very happy with. The farm with 3.5 thousand ha of land and 400 head of milk herd grows winter wheat, spring barley, sunflower, grasses, maize for grain and silage. According to Aleksandr Timokhin, Vaderstad puts the end customer in priority, they value the opinion of those who operate their machinery. Factory specialists visit the farm and fix all the defects if they find any.

‘There was a problem with unfolding markers’, says Aleksandr Timokhin. ‘The factory specialist identified it and sent us new markers of improved design some time later.’

The operation is planning to aquire the TopDown in the nearest time and the Carrier – around spring time. This tour of the factory has made the management positive that this is the right choice.