The First BEDNAR Machine at Ladislav Kopřiva’s Farm

“I started farming ten years ago on an area of 0.5 hectare. We are a family of farmers so land passes from generation to generation. I’ve always been close to farming, I used to work as a tractor driver. Today, I manage 20 hectares of land. I mostly grow winter wheat, winter rapeseed, malt barley and potatoes, all in medium-heavy soil. Last year, I achieved an average yield of 8 t/ha of wheat, 6 t/ha of barley and 3.2 t/ha of rapeseed”, Mr. Ladislav Kopřiva says.

Mr. Kopřiva uses a John Deere 5100R as the main tractor at his farm. It gets aggregated to a plough, a seedbed cultivator, a seed drill and now also with the new universal BEDNAR FENIX FN 3000L cultivator.

“Even though I use standard tillage in the fields, I needed a cultivator to meet the agronomic deadlines, especially during the harvest season. I borrowed a FENIX last autumn and saw that it did not have any issues in our conditions, even with a relatively small tractor with 110 HP. The FENIX can cultivate soil at to a good quality, aerate it in depth, mix and prepare for seeding in one pass. I also use it for levelling the coarse furrow and headland. The rear V-RING nicely levels the field and crumbles any clods”, Mr. Kopřiva adds.

The FENIX FN_L is a universal, three-row cultivator that offers many possibilities of use during the year, from shallow stubble breaking and medium-depth aeration to deep loosening. Mr. Kopřiva’s machine is equipped with a rear V-RING packer with a diameter of 630 mm, mechanical working depth regulation, shear bolt tine protection and levelling sections with levelling backfillers.

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