Five Rules of Good Machinery

An improperly completed machinery fleet is one of the most common mistakes in the agricultural industry. This is especially true for medium and small farms: the first thing to reduce production costs is to extract maximum out of agricultural machinery.  Here, the strategically significant fact is the operation cost. The lower it is within the season, the more efficient the farmer’s work can be considered. We calculated some of parameters, which should be used to select the right machinery.

There are not many manufacturers of good machines for farmers in the world. Representatives of the “Big Four” – Case, John Deere, New Holland, Rostselmash – offer equipment for solving most problems, but the question of the right choice here goes far beyond personal preferences. For instance, more and more farmers today choose Russian equipment by Rostselmash (the largest manufacturer in Russia, occupying more than 80 percent of the market), and here are the reasons why. Rostselmash offers machines for the agricultural sector that best meet optimum efficiency parameters. There are five parameters in total.

Ownership Costs

The cost of your work depends on the class of machinery you own. This is most evident in case of grain harvesters: if the performance class of a combine does not match the yield of the field, fuel and maintenance will cost like gold. Performance is the most important factor to meet deadlines. Therefore, at the selection stage it is important not to make a mistake with the combine type. Rostselmash presents a quite logical division of machines by performance classes.

The VECTOR series is suitable for low to medium yield fields, the innovative, manoeuvrable and compact NOVA can cope with non-standard tasks in fields with complex contours and terrain, the ACROS series and the super-efficient double drum RSM 161 have been developed for large grain fields with high yields, and the powerful rotary TORUM has been developed to harvest complex crops. The product line itself, as can be seen, allows you to make significant tolerances on the tasks – and choose the best equipment for your farm.

It is also important that today the agricultural equipment by Rostselmash has no competitors in terms of price. It has been verified that the cost per unit of the crop yield is always the lowest.

Versatility

It is ideal when the needs of a farm can be satisfied with the range of one manufacturer – this means more unification, more simplicity, less maintenance costs. In this case Rostselmash is a good example: its product portfolio includes tractors, grain and forage harvesters, headers, sowing and tillage equipment. The entire agricultural cycle can be covered using the machinery produced by Rostselmash. This means that for purchase and maintenance you need to contact one of the nearest dealers. Besides, compatibility issues are removed – the company adheres to the concept of a single platform. 

Another important feature is versatility, especially for grain harvesters. Rostselmash offers headers and conversion kits to harvest wheat, sunflower, rape, maize and rice.

Affordability

Affordability principle is applicable not only to the initial cost of the machinery. As everyone knows, the main costs are related to maintenance, fuel, spare parts and the cost of routine works. When every minute of downtime costs money, it is important to take care of maximum cost reduction. Rostselmash has a spare parts warehouse in Europe, which allows quick delivery of the required part without customs difficulties. All service centres (and there are 77 of them) are equipped with the necessary equipment for diagnostics – and all of them have a mobile vehicle for maintenance in the field. In addition, Rostselmash standard of service provides for twenty-four-hour operation of service centres during harvesting season, the company undertakes to eliminate the malfunction within 48 hours if disassembly of main components is not required, and five days if it is still needed. Original spare parts can be ordered on the company's website – and they will be delivered to the nearest dealer.

Technological effectiveness

All Russian agricultural machines are maintainable, unpretentious, economical and undemanding for fuel. One can say that it is the machinery with its philosophy of reasonable costs and ability to perform the task in complicated conditions. At the same time, it is an extremely innovative machinery. If we compare the rates of commissioning of new models at large manufacturers, it turns out that Rostselmash has introduced more novelties in the last 15 years than in decades of its history. Engineering solutions, proven by years of experience, together with innovative technologies and the powerful push that Russian industry has received during the period of import substitution policy implementation have become the basis for technology breakthrough. Today, the company is setting innovative trends such as the introduction of the world’s most technologically advanced NOVA machine – a compact combine of the third performance class, which today has no rivals in terms of technical equipment.

Comfort

Rostselmash is a friendly company. This feeling starts from the first contact with the dealer and continues with the accessibility of settings and the intuitive interface of professional machinery. They say the Russians never read manuals for the machinery. Possibly, it is because they just do not need them. Simplicity is both the code of the Rostselmash machinery and a kind of advantage: easy to master, hard to break.

Control is intuitive, settings are unified and simple, errors are monitored by an electronic assistant. The mechanic has access to fine tuning that can be made from the comfort of the cab. This not only makes the work easier, but also faster, more accurate, more reliable, and ultimately more efficient.