At Tume-Agri, the changes continue. This can be seen on our renewed website, which I hope you are currently getting to know. There are also other big changes underway:
- Production line: We are converting one of our production halls into a more efficient welding shop for our new cultivator machines.
- Sales: Our new ISOBUS-controlled seed fertilizer Tume Orion, which replaces the Tume Titan collection, will be announced at the Helsinki Agricultural Machinery Fair.
- Purchase operations: Purchases will be strengthened in the fall with a new procurement manager, Kari Luomanen. Under Kari’s leadership, we will be able to start a large-scale bidding process for suppliers.
Business and life have always been a change, but nowadays they seem to be happening even faster. Today’s flow of information and the daily flood of news are so wild that it requires quite a bit of media literacy to maintain a sense of proportionality in matters. Media literacy should be included in today’s primary school as its own subject, but for us adults, studying this would only be good. It should become mandatory for decision-makers, so for example wood production could be renewable even after 2030 in Europe.
However, it is pointless for anyone to claim that the climate has not also changed. The growing season in Finland has generally been quite good this year. Of course, there are areas that have suffered from drought again, but too much rains has also made harvesting particularly difficult in some places. Europe has correspondingly suffered from exceptionally extensive drought problems and various extreme weather phenomena around the globe.
So how can we prepare ourselves for these? Thus, as the son of a drainage technician, it is easy to remind again that the water management of the field is the last thing to compromise on. Functional drainage and field surface design will never go out of fashion! From the point of view of the seeding machine manufacturer, it is easy to recommend a seeding machine with which you can sow in the most versatile sowing conditions. Both for tilled, lightly tilled and direct sowing. Year by year, it also becomes more apparent that there is no single and correct cultivating method. In the future, more and more land will be cultivated with methods that are suitable for certain block and soil type. This might even mean that it would be optimal to use many different cultivation methods in the fields of the same farm. My conscience can’t bare to recommend all the different Tume cultivators for every farm. Instead, I would like to warmly recommend joint ownership of the machines. Very good options for a joint ownership of several farms or a farmer’s club would be e.g. plows, Tume Harrow D with disc cultivator, Tume Cultiplus cultivator, Tume Harrow R spade roller or, for example, Tume Harrow T universal cultivator. In this case, it would be easier to choose a suitable cultivating method for each block, so that huge amounts of farm-specific capital is not committed to machinery.
What we do requires constant change, because global agriculture is changing and the amount of hunger is increasing. Hopefully we have learned from the mistakes made. Self-sufficiency in food production is literally a valuable thing, but not having it is even more expensive. Our electricity bill is currently proving this.
Hoping for good changes!
Jorma Lähetkangas
CEO, Tume-Agri Oy
