“At present, we manage about 350 hectares, mostly sandy soils to brown earth. We grow wheat, corn, peas and rapeseed. We mostly use the minimization soil cultivation technology but we started with traditional tillage as with most other companies. We used to use a combination of a rotary harrow and a seed drill aggregated to our first tractor a JOHN DEERE 7810. Then, we purchased a seed drill without soil cultivation but it required a high quality seedbed preparation,” Mr. Kolář says.
Summer, with its harvest season, is a crucial time for soil cultivation. It’s the moment when stubble cultivation becomes an…