Optimization of the harvesting and transport complex work in forage conservation

Abstract

The need to use high-performance machinery in agriculture is caused by a number of reasons. The main of them is the development of scientific and technological progress, both in the economy as a whole and in the agricultural sector. This is aimed at increasing labor productivity, reducing costs, and improving production efficiency. All of this is relevant due to a decrease in the number of agricultural machinery working in agricultural production, a decrease in the area of arable land and the area of sowings of specific crops, including forage crops. Of the entire production process of forage conservation, the most important is harvesting. The quality of harvested forage directly depends on the calendar terms of harvesting, duration. With the appearance and use of high-performance forage harvesters of domestic and foreign production in forage harvesting technologies, there was an objective need to create harvesting and transport complexes (HTC). For the effective HTC operation, information is needed on the optimal combination of the number of forage harvesters, vehicles, equipment for leveling and "ramming"the green mass in the silo trench.