№ 22 June 2015 The corporate journal of the AgroCentre Company Hot season Smash- Hot hits of the novelties season on Field Days pages 3, 5, 12 Hot issues: Strong together! Russian Machines and AGCO are pooling their efforts to P manufacture agricultural equipment…........................................................page 2 P GSI tower dryers are works of the engineering art.......................................page 4 “We need good heads and smart machines,” said Victor Antipov, P General Director of Artel CJSC. He spoke about his own approach to agriculture.............................................................................................pages 6-7 P Trimble system for precision agriculture turns tractors into “Boeings”......page 8 www.agrozentr.ru 1 THE corporatE JOURNAL № 22 June 2015 EVENTS Strong together! Russian Machines and and enhance their positions by manufacture of Fendt and meet the demand in Russia,” AGCO completed a deal in one of the most promising Valtra machines by the end of says Manfred Eibeck, Director to establish an AGCO- international markets. In turn, the year. General of Russian Machines RM joint venture for AGCO is contributing the best The next step towards higher Corporation. production of agriculture technologies and innovations localisation is the plan to In turn, Rob Smith, Senior Vice machinery. available for farmers all over assemble the most popular President, General Manager the world. self-propelled machines – EAME for AGCO, noted that The strategic alliance between The project implementation the Massey Ferguson 7347 the joint venture with Russian AGCO, global producer of started in September 2013 and 7370 8-walker combine Machines Corporation will agriculture machinery, and when the companies signed harvesters and Massey enhance the market standing Russian Machines Corporation a joint venture agreement. A Ferguson tractors of the 7000 of the company by offering will allow both companies to facility for agriculture machinery and 8000 series. Russian farmers not only boost their positions in the assembly was established in “In partnership with agricultural machinery and Russian agricultural machinery Golitsyno along with logistics AGCO Corporation, we are equipment assembled in market. In this partnership, centres for distribution of final expanding our competencies Russia, but also bringing Russian Machines are going products and spare parts. SKD in agricultural equipment in efficient and innovative to enter the mechanical assembly of the Challenger and production. The AGCO-RM joint solutions aimed at raising engineering segment, which Massey Ferguson machinery venture has huge potential for the performance of their is new to the Corporation, is underway, to be followed development, enabling us to businesses.” One day with AgroCentre! AgroCentreZakharovo invites all Penza farmers to participate in an Open Doors Day to be organised at their new dealership for servicing agricultural equipment. A new service centre was machines is allowed. Any delay opened in Penza this year. in operation is just impossible, Already about 50 regional whatever the reason is. The farming enterprises enjoy service engineers work 24 its services for equipment hours a day to prevent even maintenance. The spare parts the possibility of down time or storage facility (600 m2), delay. The new service centre service area (700 m2), office will provide more options for premises (240 m2), and demo- quality and timely service,” site for agriculture equipment says Artem Simbulatov, samples are situated on 0.8 ha Director of the Penza branch of grounds. The service centre is AgroCentreZakharovo. equipped to meet up-to-date requirements, and it possesses During the Open Doors Day, everything necessary to they scheduled a study-tour of perform diagnostics and repair the service centre to familiarise of agricultural machinery within the farmers with new models the shortest time possible. of agriculture machinery and “During the hot season no to answer any questions of down time of agriculture interest. By Anna BORDUNOVA 2 THE corporatE JOURNAL № 22 June 2015 NEWS Demand fosters development! Livestock producers of the region favour the ‘jack-of-all- trades,’ the telehandler JCB 531-70 Agri. A wide range of attachments shows the huge capacity of this smart, reliable, and failure-free machine: wad handling, fodder preparation, loading-unloading operations at a height of up to seven metres, cargo transportation. Thanks to the quickly detachable carriage, replacement of attachments takes just two minutes. In early summer, agricultural producers of Yaroslavl oblast and adjacent regions attended the traditional Field Day. A demonstration of up-to-date technological GSI dryers were also in solutions was conducted for all forward-looking agricultural producers on the grounds demand from the guests of the Agricultural Enterprise Voshchazhnikovo JSC (Borisoglebsky district, Yaroslavl of AgroCentre. Agricultural oblast). AgroCentre participated in this event. producers complained about the capricious weather of the “At this Field Day, more than of AgroCentreZakharovo was fuel. SCR technology makes central region, which they have 70 suppliers presented cutting- greatly admired. This brand of it possible to refine exhaust to cope with and compensate. edge agricultural machines tractors is the most popular gases and optimise engine It is impossible to prepare coming from all corners of the both in agriculture and in performance. In addition, the grains for market without dryers world. They are in demand, and forestry as well as in utility work. tractor’s dimensions meet here. Compared to its peers, demand fosters development “This tractor is ideal for livestock all road traffic regulations. the prices for GSI equipment of agriculture,” says Sergei and crop enterprises, including One can drive it on regular are quite reasonable. The price Yastrebov, the Governor of vegetable producers with fields roads without any escort,” matches the quality of the dryer Yaroslavl oblast. covering up to three thousand says Evgeny Lukyanov, head and the quality of grains after The tractor Valtra T 191h hectares. T Series Valtra of the service department at drying. (189 hp) on display at the tractors consume much less the AgroCentreZakharovo LLC stand of the Yaroslavl branch regional company. By Yulia SALKOVA Massey Ferguson hits the spot! Over 1,000 guests from different regions of Russia and Department in the Kursk branch “Long ago I put my eye on of AgroCentreLiski. the CIS arrived at the 15th Kursk Korenskaya Fair to this machine. It boasts high Aleksandr Sivtsev, Director of see and be seen. AgroCentre demonstrated advanced performance, excellent Spasskaya Niva LLC, purchased manoeuvrability and economical agricultural machinery from world-famous brands. the JCB 527-58 telehandler at efficiency. In the case of our AgroCentre. By the way, it is the farm, it hits the spot! We should first telehandler in Kursk oblast. arrange to purchase this He also paid attention to the tractor,” says Aleksandr Sivtsev. The Challenger MT 865C km/h,” explains Aleksandr Usov, Massey Ferguson 7624 tractor caterpillar tractor, JCB 531-70 senior manager of the Sales presented at the fair. By Anna BORDUNOVA telehandler, Carrier cultivator by Vaederstad and Massey Ferguson tractors of the 7 and 8 series sparked profound interest among the visitors. “Fifteen Massey Ferguson tractors have already been operating in our region. The updated, powerful six-cylinder AGCO POWER engine, the highly efficient continuously variable Dyna VT transmission, and the lift capacity of rear mounting up to 12,000 kg — all those features make the machines ground-breaking in their class. Those tractors feature high performance and reach speeds of up to 50 3 THE corporatE JOURNAL № 22 June 2015 NEWS Real capacity Two big GSI 5000G tower grain dryers are being on our own experience in assembled by AgroCentre-Zernovye Tekhnologii at two drying equipment operation farms of the APK Orlovskaya Niva CJSC. This year’s and also on the experience of crop will be entrusted to these powerful works of other agriculture enterprises the engineering art known for their unprecedented already using similar dryers. capacity. We received good feedback. They told us that the real “These grain dryers feature a Dried grains are processed capacity exactly matched unique design providing high by captured heat which the specifications. One capacity, ranging from 30 to other dryers just radiate more advantage was the 330 t/h. Our clients checked out. Such mixing helps to compact dimensions of many times and found maintain optimal grain the tower: height about 31 that actual capacity meets temperature and reduces m with a diameter of 7.5 the data indicated in the fuel consumption. m. Equipment servicing specifications!” says Sergey Mikhail Zhirnyakov, Deputy was considered to be one Sobolev, head of the sales Director of the APK Yunost of the major factors, and department at AgroCentre- CJSC (APK Orlovskaya Niva AgroCentre stood tall in Zernovye Tekhnologii LLC. CSJC) offered the following this regard. We also liked Compared to the dryers from comments: the basic configuration of the dryers. A variety of other manufacturers, the “Our agricultural holding sensors, valves, systems for whole heating chamber of has large production drying process control and a GSI tower is surrounded volumes. We produce grains monitoring are included in by the grain column. Hot air for sale and for mixed the standard delivery set. passes