At the height of the harvest, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited Kursk Oblast. The high-ranking guest was treated to the Field Day with a demonstration of engineering capabilities of modern agricultural equipment.

The eighth Field Day took place in the Kurgan region, just east of the Ural mountains. Despite an autumn “gift” – an incessant drizzle – presented during the trade fair by the summer month August, the event gathered a lot of visitors and participants.

Ad astra per aspera (through hardships to the stars), this is the motto of Kansas, a North American state where the AGCO Corporation maintains one of its most powerful divisions.  AgroCentre customers have recently paid a visit there.

This year,  JCB came to the Russian market with an innovative multi-purpose system, LiveLink, for monitoring each step of the machine in real-time mode. During a training session held for them by representatives of JCB, the AgroCentre specialists familiarised themselves with capabilities of the LiveLink system.

Today, the hero of our publication is the Carrier stubble cultivator from the Vaderstad Company. Our partners shared their opinions on how this machine looked in operation.

Since the end of last year, the Kverneland Group CIS has been headed by Robert Zisack. Previously, he successfully ran the Moscow representation of GEA Westphalia Separator and worked for the German Academy of Management.

AgroCentre is doing its utmost to bring servicing closer to the customers' farms. And its efforts are duly rewarded. The company is not only expanding its “servicing geography,” but is also improving the capabilities of its servicing centres.

On April 25th in a 24 hours race a Tempo F8 planted 212 hectares of corn at an average speed of 18 km per hour. A 42% increase in capacity per row unit compared to the official world record carried out with a 24 row planter.