František Pátý, who has been working in agriculture for more than 46 years, welcomed me at his farm between Český les and the Gate to the Šumava Mountains. He and his daughter manage about 250 hectares of arable land in Staňkov and Horažďovice in West Bohemia.

Farmet offers demonstrations of a selected machine to the interested parties on their own premises. Ing. Petr Kopecký, a mechanisation technician of Nahořanská a.s., an agricultural business, wrote about demonstration seeding using the Falcon 6 PRO seed drill.

Even though our fields are covered with snow and our thoughts focus on the farm operation and technology for the season, we should start thinking about what machines will come out to the fields when the spring sun melts the snow and the skylark announces the arrival of spring.