Monica Todorova: How does a lady cope with autumn sowing with the help of modern technologies?

After completing her Master's Degree in Plant Protection at the Agricultural University in Plovdiv, Monika Todorova is actively involved in the family farming business in Plovdiv. Dimovo. In the family company Agrogea, she takes over the entire administrative activity with the help of agricultural software TechnoFarm, and is also actively involved in the management of machinery in the field.

Agrogea farm is located in Dimovo municipality. For more than 10 years Kverneland has been their companion in agrotechnical events. On the farm they use inventory of different generations produced by Kverneland, such as cultivators, stubble cultivators, disc harrows, spring planters and others, and in the fall of 2020 they also purchase a high-performance autumn planter u-drilland disc harrow Qualidisc, in order to improve the processes of preparation and sowing of the essences.

The combined autumn planter Kverneland u-drillperforms 5 operations at once, namely: preparation of the soil bed, alignment, compaction, sowing and pressing seeds in one pass. This and the main reason in the Agrogea husbandry to choose this particular planter.

What is the main advantage of the machine?

Of greatest benefit to the high productivity and short sowing times on the farm are the large seed hopper as well as the robust construction of the machine. Accuracy and control in the precise lines of autumn sowing are guaranteed by Trimble solutions used on the farm — a navigation display and an autopilot system with an accuracy of 2 cm.

The decision to purchase the u-drill planter comes after Monica Todorova and her father saw the machine in action on a farm near them. The good performance in the specific soil conditions of the Northwest is precisely why they believe that by upgrading their machine park with the Kverneland u-drill, the workflow will improve and the timing and cost of sowing will decrease.

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