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In January this year, our major customer from Tomsk, Russia opened their first line for rapeseed processing.

Even though our fields are covered with snow and our thoughts focus on the farm operation and technology for the season, we should start thinking about what machines will come out to the fields when the spring sun melts the snow and the skylark announces the arrival of spring.

It might seem that machines for soil cultivation are simple when compared with tractors or threshers, but their maintenance also has its difficulties and neglecting it does not pay off.

Between 23 and 26 January, the largest agricultural exhibition for Hungary and surrounding countries took place in the Hungexpo complex in Budapest.

The year 2018 was a year of changes and the beginning of large investments for Farmet. The first most visible change and investment was the reconstruction of the welding shop that caused some transfers in the production, as well as in the welding shop and the assembly plant.

On the 8 and 9 January 2019, the Lamma Fair, with a national significance, took place in Birmingham, England. Farmet participated in the fair together with J Brock & Sons, our sales representative for Great Britain.

Dear business partners, today our employees returned from Christmas holiday to their responsibilities to follow up to cooperation and communication with you.

Dear Business Partners, Employees, Colleagues, We would like to thank you for your cooperation in the year that is about to end. We wish you strong health, a lot of happiness and well-being.

Uzbekistan is too often thought of as some central Asian country with a semi-dictatorial regime. In fact, this country is currently going through turbulent changes, aiming for liberalization and democratization politically and a more open market economically.

The popular agricultural Christchurch A&P Show took place from 14th to 16th November 2018 in the south island of New Zealand.

The largest exhibition in Russia focused on agricultural technology, equipment and materials for the production and processing of agricultural products.

Zemas a.s. Čejč is a business that manages 2,900 hectares of agricultural land in the cadastre of 7 South Moravian municipalities. The cultivated soil is medium-heavy to heavy, and sandy in some places. The company uses stubble cultivation at a depth of 30 cm for all its fields. Each year, a few fields are selected to be cultivated at a greater depth, up to 65 cm.

The November issue of OFI (Oils and Fats Magazine, www.ofimagazine.com) comes with our article on solvent(hexane)-free soybean processing.

Mr. Zajíc from Chotutice in the Central Bohemian Region has tested Triton 450 PS in various conditions.

The year 2018 has been full of success for Farmet, whether in regard to the new products introduced to the market, increased production capacity, or the reinforcement of our position in the current and new countries.

Three Farmet machines competed in a difficult cultivation match in the former Cidlina River bed: Triton 450 PS, a specialist in crop residue incorporation; Fantom 650 PRO, a light ploughshare cultivator and stubble plough; and Digger 3, a deep cultivator (chisel plough). The field where corn for grain grew was harvested with a combined harvester. Moreover, wild boars ate in the field and crushed it, which made the cultivation conditions harder. The extremely heavy soil did not allow for cultivation deeper than 17 cm. In spite of these conditions, we compared the work of 3 different machines.

Since 2015, catch crops have been one of the ways fulfilling the function of greening. Greening is one of the conditions for receiving direct payments. To meet the conditions of greening, farmers choose from a wide range of EFA areas (Ecological Focus Area). When choosing an area with catch crops, the seeding of a mix of catch crops is required.

Triton 450 PS incorporated a thick and tall (40-70 cm) phacelia crop in aggregation with a 300 HP Case tractor in a field that belongs to Mr. Andrýsek (Mlékosrby Farm. The discs easily cut everything and processed soil in a depth of 7 cm. The chisels without wings (due to heavy soil), recessed to 18 cm, thoroughly mixed everything. The field was left to “rest” for a day, to let the soil dry a bit and to wither the crop residue.

On Thursday, 18th October, we had the opportunity to meet again at the last Farmet Company Day this year. This time, the Company Day was hosted by the Sloupnice Farming Cooperative, which has been the new authorised Farmet partner in the sale of agricultural technology since August.

The year 2018 was one of the “better” years for corn harvest. After the extremely dry summer and start of autumn, the youngest member of the soil cultivation family, the Triton 450 PS combined disc and chisel cultivator, was also presented in active demonstrations in Slovakia.