The farm of the Ural Agrarian State University in Russia is harvesting

Russia

Published Sep 7, 2020

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Thanks to the hot summer, the harvesting campaign in the Student settlement started ahead of schedule. On the educational fields of the university, they dug up all the early potatoes - 2 hectares, harvested 12 hectares of oats and 48 hectares of wheat. A detachment of machine operators from among the students of the Ural State Agrarian University is engaged in the harvesting of grain. The expected harvest - more than 200 tons - will be used for the preparation of animal feed for the veterinary clinic of the Ural State Agrarian University, as well as for seeds and sale.

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Today, within the framework of educational practice, students harvest onions, cabbage and beets. And in total, during the summer on the university's educational fields, in addition to grain and oilseeds, more than 100 varieties of potatoes (22 hectares), several dozen types of vegetables and fruit and berry crops, including garlic, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, herbs, apples , pears, honeysuckle, raspberries, currants, cherries, gooseberries and more. “We still have to dig out 20 hectares of potatoes. For the third year we have been doing this with the help of the Palesse RT25 potato harvester. Thanks to the technique, students only control the harvesting process and sort out the harvested roots. We also plan to harvest in our orchard and prepare it for winter. The timing of the completion of the harvest depends largely on the weather. For now, we plan to finish by September 10, ”said Andrey Vladimirovich Gladkov, head of the educational and experimental farm of the Ural State ...

Source: AgriNews