Back at the desk

The AgroCentre employees have undergone a training on Kverneland equipment at Haus Düsse Estate, a research and extension centre in Germany.

It is the Central Science and Research Institute of the Chamber of Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia. The Centre provides advanced training to agriculture specialists from all over the world.

‘We studied from dawn to dusk’, says Sergey Chichay, Head of Chelyabinsk Branch of AgroCentre, ‘staying in the field all day long.’

The trainees looked into the ins and outs of handling Kverneland seed drills, disc harrows and ploughs and compared them to the equivalent models of other brands. The field work has proved that the Norwegian equipment has a competitive edge.

‘Kverneland ploughs have a very high quality of manufacture’, says Sergey Chichay, ‘their depth wheel is mounted at the back of the frame preventing it from rocking back and forth during work, and thus the tillage depth remains consistent all along the frame. In other manufacturers’ models, the depth wheel is sometimes positioned in the middle, as a result the frame of the plough sinks from side to side, and the tillage depth can be irregular.

Besides the stability, Kverneland ploughs have another indisputable advantage — a wide range of mouldboards. Any agronomist can find one to suit the specific requirements of his operation.

‘We saw a demo of the new Kverneland Optima seed drill with a liquid fertiliser application function', says Vitaliy Mosin, Head of Tambov Branch of AgroCentre, ‘now it is available in the Russian market. Earlier purchased seed drills can also be retrofitted with the solution.’

Even the bad weather was no impediment to the practical trainings of the ‘students’.

‘Lessons hard to learn are sweet to know’, says Vitaliy Mosin. ‘Simply selling machinery is not our goal. Our priority is helping our customers to maximise machine performance, and for that we need to keep up with the times and continuously improve our skills.’