Audit and assessment of existing farm technology

Each farm usually has established agrotechnical practices proven by experience, which, according to the representatives of the farm, have proven their effectiveness and do not require changes.

Such beliefs create the so-called trap of template reproducibility over time, and if at the initial stage this stable reproducibility was justified, after 5-8 years it not only loses its relevance but also becomes harmful. Moreover, climate conditions are changing, new strains of fungal pathogens and insects are migrating, the physiology of harmful organisms is changing, and all these changes require quick responses, not "stable practices".

That is why the goal of the agronomist-technologist is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the current crop production technology and identify weak links that hinder the efficiency of crop cultivation.

Ensuring farm technology productivity

A productive technology is one that ensures a competent combination of the available range of machines suitable for high-quality soil cultivation based on classical, minimal, or zero tillage (the goal is to form a seedbed at a precisely set depth, loosening the top cover layer of soil with a formed capillary system), the presence of sowing units (precision seeders) capable of evenly sowing a specific seeding rate at a set depth; the presence of high-performance sprayers for the fastest possible (in agronomically optimal terms) crop protection; harvesters that harvest the grown crop as quickly as possible with minimal losses, etc.

At this stage, the agronomist-technologist gives a detailed assessment of the current crop protection system, the necessity or advisability of making changes to individual agrotechnical practices, the regulations for their implementation, points out identified shortcomings, and argues the need for changes.