Development of means of mechanization of fodder production

Annotation Purpose.Establishing the main directions of development of technical means for the preparation of feed for the current state of development of technology in Ukraine and the world. Methods.Monographic, analytical, systematic analysis of the transformation of technical objects and technological processes of harvesting and storage of stem feeds and prospects for their development. Results. Prospects for the development of dairy farming in Ukraine are identified, the main machines for stem fodder harvesting are identified, the characteristics of domestic and foreign production machines are analyzed, their differences are determined, examples of innovative developments in some types of technical means for fodder harvesting are given. Conclusions. Feed harvesting machines produced by Ukrainian producers do not meet the needs of milk producers with more than 120–150 cows, are produced irregularly, in separate batches. Domestic manufacturers of machines for forage harvesting do not produce the entire list of necessary machines. Only the simplest machines of low productivity are issued, use of means of automation of the executed processes is absent. Based on the research of NSC “IAEE”, some samples of innovative forage harvesters and their promising working bodies have been developed and tested. In most types of machines there are noticeable signs of modularity, unification. To provide livestock producers with feed preparation machines, it is necessary to organize (program) the production of standard-sized rows of modular machines agreed with each other on productivity (working speed, width of capture) in accordance with the available energy resources.