Atanas Mehandov: I have always looked for the best and this is Kverneland!

Precise and efficient sowing is particularly important to ensure a good start for your crops. For the farmer Atanas Mehandov, it is this, along with the quality of sowing, that are the most important factors when choosing Planter. For the autumn campaign, he trusts Kverneland.

“For every single piece of equipment I use, I've looked for different things. The highest thing for me is always to get the job done qualitatively. Everything ultimately rests there, so if I have to say one thing as the highest rated, it is the quality of the work done,” Mehandov, who runs a company Zaga Agria, told NIK.

In this year, the farmer cultivated 4500 decares of land in the lands of several villages in the territory of Radnevska Municipality and Stara Zagora Municipality. And Kverneland is his first assistant. That's why:

“I have always looked for the best value for money, to get the best for the money I give. And what I buy to work for me and to be able to rely on it. My choice in most cases reached Kverneland,” Atanas Mehandov is adamant.

“The price was really important. She was extremely good, but the planter also had to do the job that was asked of her, namely, to work quickly and qualitatively.

Most of the planters that are available on the market are 4-meter, on a rigid frame, which nowadays and especially for a farmer like me who cultivates land in several plots is not convenient. I have to travel on the roads a lot. For this purpose, it was important for me that the planter was as large as possible and at the same time to be able to move with it in a transport position along the road network”, explained Mehandov.

Kverneland DLis the perfect solution for small and medium-sized farms. The planter is both compact, lightweight construction and the proven quality of Kverneland. This is what makes it a preferred choice for many farmers. In addition, the machines with a working width of more than 3.00 m have frames that fold easily by hand for transportation on roads — something extremely important for Atanas Mehandov.

More about the Kverneland DL

The planter comes with working widths from 3.00 to 4.50 m, with the minimum power required for aggregation being only 55 kW, which is due to the close center of gravity of the DL.

The machine is with 2000 liter capacityon the seed hopper and as standard it is available without blunt wheels, but they can be ordered and factory-installed on it as needed.

The planter gives perfect results in the field with Trimble navigation, which Atanas Mehandov himself tells us about.

“In general, the inventory works very well with navigation Trimble GFX-750. It is also ISOBUS. This is extremely important to say, as it saves the purchase of additional computers, control screens and tidying up the tractor with different types of displays.”

One of the challenges with effective sowing is, in fact, giving it a quantitative dimension. That's why automatic machine control with Trimble makes workflows much more productive.

When sowing, with solutions from Trimble, much higher productivity is achieved, and time and money are saved.

All this leads to higher yields and a reduction in invested funds, which is actually the quantitative measure of efficiency from the application of Trimble technologies.

In addition, Trimble displaysare compact in size, based on Android operating system, easy installation and the ability to move between machines. This is exactly how the purchase of additional screens and computers is saved — something Mehandov is extremely keen on.

Kverneland and Trimble are farmers' preferred choices.

“The main thing I can say is that the brand is good, reputable. The technique works well and the price is extremely reasonable,” concluded Atanas Mehandov.

Find out more about Trimble precision farming technologies and Kverneland machines, or contact your NICK sales representative today!