Cap beyond the year 2014 and the global agricultural landscape focus the second edition of agricultural

Like dominant notes, and to effects of resumir the second edition of Agricultural Fair 2011 would fit to add two observations. The first, the quality and diversity of the offer presented of hands of the 235 display units present, a treintena more than in the previous announcement. The second, the professional profile of the visitors that attended to the enclosure ferial of Valladolid during the four celebrated days, of 9 to 12 February, as they ensured sources of the organisation. Like this then , they incorporated new participants, what contributed to expand the range of products and exposed services in the four pavilions of the enclosure ferial. The visitors could observe and discover in situ from tractors and cosechadoras until sowing machines, equipment for the manufacturing of floors, crop protection, tyres, software for agricultural exploitations, industrial bay equipment graziers, seeds, fertilizantes, agricultural insurance, projects of engineering, etc.

In addition to increased participation, another novelty has been the emergence, for the first time, of the manufacturer Michelin as exhibitor and partner of the fair. On the ground that the company is in Valladolid are produced, among other products, tyre reserved for agricultural uses. Agrarian, was the scene in which were presented the news for the field of Michelin, within its extensive portfolio of products. The event also counted with the collaboration of the Junta de Castilla y León, the provincial Council of Valladolid, Spain box and Caja Duero.

Broadly speaking, agrarian summoned a large and diverse number of exhibitors. In particular, attended from manufacturers of small tools export of large machinery, as well as multinational companies with branch offices across the globe. In addition, stressed the diversity of presented equipment adapted to crops of any kind: sugar beet, potatoes, vines, cereals, fruit and even rice. Depending on their origin, were basically present exhibitors from the provinces of Castile-Leon, Catalonia, Castile - La Mancha, Spain, Galicia, Madrid, Navarre, Aragon, France, Czech Republic, etc. This, with regard to domestic manufacturers. Outside our borders, we should also highlight the presence of exhibited machinery originating from countries such as Belgium, Italy, United States, Japan, Austria, Ireland, Portugal, China, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Brazil, etc.

With regard to the number of visitors, this approximated to the 22.000 professionals. Between the present public, could appreciate the assistance of the responsible maxima of the main companies of machinery and professional groupings. For example, the National Association of Machinery Agropecuaria, Forestry and of Green Spaces (Ansemat), whose president, Julio Gil, showed satisfied of the evolution of the contest: “Already it liked me the first edition and this second is very well, very organised and with an offer adapted to the reality”, declared. In addition to Gil, other visitors also wanted to contribute his assessment on the ‘sweet ‘' moment that experiences the contest. In this way, Carlos Monreal, world-wide vice-president of the agricultural division of Topcon, skilled company in agriculture of precision, affirmed that the fair had been “a grata surprise”. Equally, Monreal did reference to the practical character of the living room for the agriculturalists: “Here they go to find machinery with which work, equipment that know and therefore can compare the provision of ones and others. I think that the agriculturalist identifies with this fair, that celebrates in some ideal dates”. Also they visited Agricultural the president of Kubota Spain; directors of the corporation Agco Iberia, of which form part Massey-Ferguson and Fendt and of the groups Same Deutz-Fahr and John Deere, respectively.

Between the personalities assistants, could see to Ramiro Ruiz Medrano, president of the Deputation of Valladolid, accompanied by the deputy of the area, Máximo Gómez, the president of the Agricultural Camera of Valladolid and provincial deputies of Agriculture of other deputations of Castile and Leon. In fact, the provincial institution had a stand in this contest where facilitated information on the works carried out with the School of Agricultural Technical Engineers INEA, in the finca Matallana.

To the equal that in the inaugural edition, Agricultural 2011 organised a program of sessions on questions of actuality for the agricultural sectors and grazier. The round of talks began, the past day 9, with the Present ‘report and future of the beetroot azucarera in Castile and Leon', to charge of the Association for the Investigation of the Improvement of the Crop of the Beetroot Azucarera (AIMCRA) and in which they took part professors of the universities of Seville and Polytechnical of Madrid, of the agricultural organisations, of Azucarera Ebro and of Aimcra.un day afterwards, took place a round table, moderated by Fernando González Smith, director of ITAGRA.CT, agricultural technological centre and alimentary, and professor of the ETS of Agricultural Engineers of Palencia, in which the speakers analysed ‘The world-wide agricultural panorama and the Common Agricultural Politics from 2014'. In this regard, the professor Luis Márquez spoke on ‘The world-wide agricultural panorama'; Juan Pedro Medina Rebollo, general director of Community Agricultural Politics of the Board of Castile and Leon, gave the report ‘What can expect of the PAC revised for 2014'; and to continuation took part the representatives of Asaja, Union of Peasants of Castile and Leon, COAG and UPA, that contributed the point of view of the agricultural professional organisations. During the day, carried out a round table, of hands of the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives for the Safe (UCAS) on ‘The safe and the management of the exploitation' in which they took part Esteban Cembellín, manager of UCAS, Juan Alonso Sanz, boss of projects of the company dcyl Software, and Jaime Gómez Rivers, responsible of Agroreale.

'The compulsory inspection of application of plant protection equipment' was the title of the round table that took place the day 11 past and involving Victoria Montemayor, Bureau of means of production of the MARM; Julio Rodriguez de la Torre, head of the health and service management agricultural of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Board of Juan Antonio Boto Fidalgo, Professor at the school of agricultural engineering at the University of León, Castile and León. The spokesman of the MARM introduced national regulations on this issue. Then, the head of the health and service management agricultural of the counseling of Agriculture of the Junta de Castilla y León, Julio Rodriguez of the Tower, addressed the situation of the Park's equipment for plant protection in Castilla y León and gave some hints of how was going to develop the regulation in the region. Later, Juan Antonio Boto, Professor at the University of León, explained why it is necessary to carry out these inspections, the benefits that will result from them and what can be critical in this type of equipment points. In this regard, Boto stressed that it is not bureaucratic inspections since the correct regulation of the machines will make it possible to reduce implementation costs and reduce dose without losing effectiveness in pest control. Finally, and during the question time of this session, had discussed issues such as the classification of the equipment or the accreditation of inspection centres. The regulation sets that, within five years, all plant protection equipment must have been reviewed. To this end, to be registered before on a record, before the month of July.

Once again, Agricultural was the stage chosen by diverse manufacturers to organise live demonstrations of his last technical novelties. Between the display units that realizar passes that showed the operation of tractors and atomisers fits to quote to the marks Amazone, John Deere and Kubota. Amazone, distributed by the company palentina Deltacinco, exhibited an atomiser provisto of a deposit of 4.200 litres and a width of work of 28 metres and instrumented with systems of steeringal axis to follow the footprint of the tractor. John Deere was another of the signatures that added to this parade of demonstrations when presenting a system of autoguiado applicable in tractors or cosechadoras. The pass consists in that a tractor traces infinite parallel lines splitting of two points data, so that the machine ‘draws' perfect lines in the field of work. Installed in cosechadoras, the system allows to elaborate maps of performances that facilitate information about how improve the treatments of crops, dose of seed, etc. Finally, Kubota gave to know the tractor M130X, instrumented with the system of twist Bi-Speed, that allows to trace twists more enclosed that those that achieve with other equipments. One of his utilities consists in reducing the number of necessary manoeuvres in the cabeceras of work of the field. Regarding the Contest of Innovative Machines, the jury distinguished to 10 equipment and machines presented by the companies Deltacinco (Palencia), Durán Agricultural Machinery (Lugo), Inlandgeo (Madrid, with two equipment), John Deere, Kubota, Agricultural Machinery Molleda (Boroughs), Michelin, Same Deutz-Fahr and Sapesa-Fendt.

In the period enero-noviembre 2010 registered in Spain 9.547 tractors, according to figures from the Ministry of the environment, Rural and marine (MARM), of whom 12.23% corresponded to Castile and León, Spain. This percentage approached 20% in the case of the inscriptions of automotive machinery (combine harvesters, loading equipment) and 16,55% cent of the total number of registered tractors.