Technologies for improving floodplain meadows on peat soils in the Central Region of Russia

Zotov, A. A.; Косолапов, В. М.; Шевцов, А В; Shchukin, N. N.

doi:10.3103/s106836741106022x

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“…Therefore, it is necessary to improve pastures by sowing seeds under cover crops and on turf (Himmelbauer et al, 2013;Bathgate, Revell, and Kingwell, 2009). Currently, the radical improvement of pastures, including a full range of operations to create a new grass shank by sowing seeds of perennial grasses requires significant financial costs and is carried out very rarely (Fulkerson and Lowe, 2022;Soldatov et al, 2020;Zotov et al, 2012). The majority of technologies for restoring the biological productivity of natural grasslands are based on scattered grass seeding or direct seeding, which involves cutting furrows in the turf and seeding grass seeds.…”

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Traction Force Investigation of The New Working Body of The Sod Seeder

Nukeshev,

Yeskhozhin,

Akhmetov

et al. 2023

IJTech

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Due to the depletion of pastures, fodder provisioning is becoming an acute problem, therefore improving pastures by sowing seeds undercover crops and in turf is essential. The main purpose of the work is to reduce the traction force of the sod seeder by developing an effective working body. As a result, a new technology for improving forage and pasture lands and the design of a working body of sod seeder for site-specific seeding of crops undercover crops are proposed. The new technology provides simultaneous sowing of grass seed and fertilizer at two levels of soil horizon without excluding the forage area from the exploitation: grass seed to a depth of 40 mm and fertilizer to a depth of 120 mm. The seed sowing and fertilizer application depths are adjustable, and the sowing width reaches 40 mm. The traction force was determined by the dynamometric method during laboratory and field experiments. Theoretical studies have determined the dependence of the traction force on the average parameters of the cultivated soil layer and its physical and mechanical properties, as well as the parameters of the working body. According to the results of experimental and field studies, the traction force range of the sod seeder was within 8.28-8.63 kN.

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