Annual report
Anonymous.
Zprava o cinnosti Vyzkumneho Ustavu Zemedelske Techniky: 233 pp
1980
DOI: 10.2307/40165732Document Number: 341284
Research projects include some on sugar beet topping and minimizing root losses; mobile machinery for straw laceration; shaft speed monitor for combine harvesters; band sowing of cereals and flax; chisel cultivators; stone pickers and crushers; automation of field machinery; utilization of solar energy, particularly for heating water and drying, and low potential heat sources; frost control of plants; heat pumps; use of plastic film for growth promotion; electric treatment of seed; optimization of fuel and power consumption; modular construction of power units for field machinery; low pressure types; farm transport; material handling; mobile loaders; and machinery management. In the field of livestock husbandry, attention is concentrated on mechanical feeding of cattle; production of standard rations; drying, packaging and storing feeds; manure and slurry disposal; modern building designs; layouts of and space requirement in cattle houses; equipment and buildings for cattle and pigs; and the application of additives for forage conservation. Some work is also carried out on computer simulation techniques; metrication, instrumentation and automatic control systems; elimination of human strain in man/machine systems; and agrophysical and biochemical processes of product treatment and storage.