Current engineering support of corn cultivation

The paper deals with the issues of corn production and agricultural machinery used for this. It is noted that the ridge technology has the best environmental properties among the corn cultivation processes. The paper provides information about the main agro-engineering requirements when using this technology, its advantages and machines used for soil cultivation and sowing corn seeds. Particular attention is paid to the technological issues of harvesting corn for grain and engineering support of production processes, such as use of both dedicated corn harvesters and combine harvesters fitted with the necessary equipment including special corn attachments and reapers. Depending on the availability of technical equipment in agricultural enterprises, the ripeness and moisture content of the grain and other factors, a certain corn harvesting process is selected to obtain peeled cobs, unpeeled cobs or a grain and corncob mixture. The use of dedicated corn harvesters ensures obtaining peeled cobs. Harvesting when obtaining unpeeled cobs allows reducing grain losses, as well as labor and cost, and increasing the amount of corn leaf and stalk mass harvested. Both domestic harvesters and reapers, and those produced by foreign companies are used. This takes into account the manufacturability of the equipment, the possibility of maintenance, and economic factors.