Making High Quality Hay (1978)

A quote from L.I. Brezhnev's report at the Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee on the production of high-quality fodder.

Fields with various forage grasses.

A tractor with a mounted mower harvests forage grasses.

An experimental agricultural enterprise in the Lithuanian SSR. The mower mows the grass.

A mechanized unit harvests the grass.

The mown grass is wilted.

Hay turning.

The wilted hay mass is raked into windrows and dried in the windrows.

Obtaining pressed hay.

A device for pressing hay - a baler.

Bale picking.

A stack of 72 bales is unloaded.

A special transporter delivers the stack to the storage location.

Hay is loaded into sheds equipped with active ventilation systems.

A device for drying hay in storage areas.

The baler collects hay from windrows into rolls, tying them with hemp twine.

Transporting the rolls to storage areas.

The dried grass is collected by choppers, loaded into a tractor trailer and taken to storage areas.

The chopped hay is dried and stored in special sheds.

Before loading, a layer of unchopped grass is placed on the ventilation grates.

Pneumatic conveyor for feeding the wilted mass.

Active ventilation system for drying hay.

The quality of hay is tested in the laboratory.

A herd of cows grazing.

Loading feed into troughs on a farm.

A pond on the farm.

Farmers' houses with front gardens.

Children from the kindergarten on the farm walk near the pond.

A swan swims in the pond.