an artificial neural network (ann) approach was used to model the wheat production. from an extensive data collection involving 40 farms in canterbury, new zealand, the average wheat production was estimated at 9.9 t ha-1. the final ann model developed was capable of predicting wheat production under different conditions and farming systems using direct and indirect technical factors. after exa...

Despite a real risk of overturning, for the Self-Propelled agricultural Machinery (SPM) the ROPS approach to protect the driver is rather recent. Due to the several SPM categories available on the market, characterized by very different mass, dimension and working functions, the fitting of a ROPS and consequently the check of its strength is complicated. The SPM could be preliminarily divided i...

OBJECTIVES This article compares 2 variants of logging technologies at the motor-manual level: variant A - cutting and delimbing by means of a petrol chainsaw, skidding with the use of a cable winch mounted on a tractor (67-74 kW); variant B - cutting by means of a petrol chainsaw, skidding, debranching and cutting to length by means of a processor aggregated with a farm tractor (61 kW). MATE...

The control of sprayer boom undesired vibrations pose a great challenge to investigators due to various disturbances and conditions. Sprayer boom movements lead to reduce of spread efficiency and crop yield. This paper describes the design of a novel control method for an active suspension system applying proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller with an active force control (AFC) schem...

In a typical automatic guidance system for agricultural machines, the guidance system controls only one degree of freedom; either the steering angle of the front wheels of the tractor or other steering equipment is used for steering. In a tractor with the multiple degrees of freedom, like four wheel steering, the guidance system may use both the degrees of freedom for path tracking. However, th...

The Indian farming employs 225 million workforce to cover 140 million hectares of total cultivated land. In spite of rapid farm mechanization (e.g., 149 million farm machinery), the vast resource-poor family farming has primary dependence on traditional methods (e.g., 520 million hand tools and 37 million animal-drawn implements are in operation). The work drudgery, the traumatic accidents and ...

in this research was designed a differential lock control system. the system was test and evaluated after fabrication and its accuracy and precision was determined. a field experiment with three replications was conducted to investigate the effect of gear ratio, the method of tractor movement during plowing and differential position on drive wheel slippage and fuel consumption of mf399 tractor ...

The main reason for the emergence of operational characteristics tractor diesel engines is uneven fuel consumption. Fuel equipment one most responsible systems engines. purpose study was to improve efficiency an agricultural engine by using injector sprayer. Modernization needle atomizer carried out directing its guiding surface helical groove at angle α, advancing direction axisymmetric pressu...

Autodissemination of insecticides is a novel strategy for mosquito management. We tested if contaminated Aedes albopictus (Skuse) mosquitoes from a small area treated with commercial formulations (79gm a.i. pyriproxyfen/ha) using conventional techniques, would disseminate pyriproxyfen over a wider area. Pyriproxyfen showed LC50=0.012 ppb for Ae. albopictus. Direct treatment and autodisseminatio...

Viticulture involves significant levels of machinery traffic, causing heavy soil compaction. In particular, the compaction subsoil is increased; a deep tillage could certainly solve problem, but risk damage to plants’ root system high. The aim this study was investigate trend both top- and sub-soil in hillside vineyard located Tuscany (Italy), investigating different machine-implement combinati...