Grzegorz Majewski farms 250 hectares, mainly of class IV. His farm specializes in plant production in the form of winter rapeseed, winter wheat, malting barley and corn for grain. The farmer's second source of income is a company providing agricultural machinery services.
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Strip-till and precision wherever possible
The farm has been cultivating without plowing for 5 years, and in the 2023/24 season, after purchasing its own unit, the entire area was sown using strip-till technology. Although we found a plow in the farmyard, the farmer emphasizes that he does not intend to return to plowing, and the machine has already been sold and is just waiting to be picked up by the new owner.
A characteristic feature of Grzegorz Majewski's farm are the ubiquitous precision farming solutions. The farmer has been using navigation in his tractors for years, allowing him to steer the machines with an accuracy of several centimeters, and in the near future he intends to replace the oldest models with new ones with better parameters. In addition, the sprayer is equipped with automatic control of the working liquid dose, and each nozzle is a separate, automatically controlled section, which helps reduce overlaps to a minimum. The combine is also equipped with navigation, which also creates yield maps on an ongoing basis, remotely accessible from a phone or computer in the office. One of the latest acquisitions is a fertilizer spreader, adapted for variable sowing, depending on soil and yield maps, equipped with 28 automatically controlled sections.
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Shallow cultivation and large working widths
The farmer is developing his machinery towards ultra-shallow cultivation, which allows for the destruction of weeds or volunteer seedlings with minimal interference in the soil structure and minimal fuel consumption. On the farm we could see a disc harrow with special discs for shallow cultivation, a mulch harrow and a drag harrow. Grzegorz Majewski also emphasizes that by investing in machines with increasingly larger working widths, he minimizes fuel consumption and labor intensity of treatments, which gives measurable savings.
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