Improving the Mechanization of High-Quality Seed Production

DOI

10.2991/agrosmart-18.2018.159How to use a DOI?

Keywords

grain shattering and micro-damage, conventional combines, rotary combines, fractioning technology, reducing energy and material consumption

Abstract

This paper presents the indicators of quality of the grain obtained by harvesting winter wheat with conventional and rotary combine harvesters. It was identified that rotary combines substantially decrease both shattering and micro-damage to grain. The results of the research indicate that agribusiness enterprises should primarily use rotary combines to harvest seed crops. This, in turn, will allow to raise the qualitative characteristics of the seed grain, reduce the seeding rate and increase the crop yield. During the post-harvesting handling of grain heaps that arrive at the grain cleaning assemblies working according to the fractional flow technology using the universal high-performance machine, it is necessary to separate the forage fraction of grain with seeds less than 2.6 mm. This will allow to remove the air-screen cleaner machine for the secondary cleaning as well as the indented cylinder unit while removing the need for two norias for transporting grain towards them and moving it with the auger in the indented cylinder unit. Coarse impurities and unthreshed grain will be separated by a seed blower. This way, broad use of rotary combine harvesters to harvest cereal crops will allow not only to reduce shattering and micro-damage to seed grain during harvesting but also to simplify the seed-cleaning plant, which in turn will lead to reduced costs of post-harvest handling of market grain and seeds

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Vladimir Ivanovich Orobinsky
AU  - Alexander Pavlovich Tarasenko
AU  - Aleksey Mikhailovich Gievsky
AU  - Aleksey Viktorovich Chernyshov
AU  - Ivan Vasilyevich Baskhakov
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Improving the Mechanization of High-Quality Seed Production
BT  - International scientific and practical conference "AgroSMART - Smart solutions for agriculture" (AgroSMART 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 849
EP  - 852
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/agrosmart-18.2018.159
DO  - 10.2991/agrosmart-18.2018.159
ID  - Orobinsky2018/12
ER  -