In November 2009, a new concept machine, Swift, was introduced at a worldwide exhibition “Agritechnika” in Hannover, which is planned to go on sale in 2011. During 2010, Swift will go through field tests and demonstrations all over Europe.

In 2004, on the Russian market of agricultural equipment appeared a new product - Rapid Seed Drill produced by Vaderstad. Everybody spoke about the uniqueness of the machine. But only some agricultural producers ventured to buy the seeder then, due to a fairly high price. Five years have passed after the presentation of the Swedish know-how. Have the hopes of those who bought the seeder been realized? How has the equipment approved itself on the Russian fields? – The answers were given by the heads of the enterprises working with the Rapid Seed Drill more than a year.

2009 is the 10th anniversary of Carrier. During its first decade on the market this machine has strongly contributed to the rationalisation of European crop production. There are currently 9,000 Carrier machines operating in a range of different countries.

Top Down: immense capacity in soil cultivation
Until recently the Top Down (Vaderstad) Stubble Cultivator was presented on the Russian market in four modifications ranging from 4 to 7 metres. This season, will be supplied a new model, Top Down 900, with an operating width of 9 metres.
The prototype of the Top Down 900 Cultivator successfully passed testing in the Voronezh Region during season 2008, the machine showed impressive capacity: during one season Top Down 900 cultivated 16,000 ha.

Seed Hawk: excellent harvest at precise sowing
As was reported in the back issue of the newspaper, this spring in three farms of the Tula Region: Rassvet, ООО, Znamenskoe, ООО, and Otkormochnoe, ООО was performed a demonstrative sowing of spring crops with the Seed Hawk 600 C Seed Drill, manufactured by Vaderstad. The obtained results can be estimated even today.

Large wide-cut pneumatic seed drills with mounted and trailed hoppers have been used by major agricultural producers for many years. To the present moment the development of technologies in the sphere of designing seeders was aimed at increase of the operating width and capacity of cultivating openers, but the drawback of such machines was the limited precision of sowing.

Russian grain producers have felt the full acuity of this assertion in recent years as yields and gross output of grain have started to grow. This has resulted in problems related to post-harvest processing and storage of the crop.

JCB is launching series production of a new model of the loader JCB 527-58 AGRI LOADALL, featuring a compact design and improved operational performance.

On most Russian farms, the single seeding method still reigns supreme even though it is possible to take advantage of the special relief and mechanical properties of fields.

JCB and Volvo Construction Equipment signed a frame agreement to manufacture JCB Robot skid steer mini-loaders and compact track loaders. Now the companies will manufacture and sell these machines under their trademarks via respective dealer networks.