The development of pathogen resistance and the relatively high cost of chemical fungicides dictate the necessity to develop alternative disease control strategies. These strategies include biological methods of plant protection. However, the effectiveness of biological plant protection depends on the biological agent's activity, which strongly depends on external physical factors. The applicant of biological remedies for seed inlay is one of the environmentally safe ways to combat seed and soil infection. However, nowadays, the impact of mechanical means during seed inoculation on the survival of microorganisms remains poorly studied. A laboratory installation has been created that makes it possible to imitate the working process of applying microorganisms to plant seeds during inlay, changing the pressure in the distribution system, the types of sprayers and the temperature of the working composition of the biological product with its further study in order to determine the number of living microorganisms remaining in it after processing. According to the results of the experimental data, graphical dependences were constructed showing the impact of pressure in the sprayer system, the temperature of the biological product and the type of spraying device on the viability of microorganisms. For microorganisms of RECB-50B (based on Bacillus sp.), RECB-14B (based on Pseudomonas putida), RECB-74F (Trichoderma viride) strains, the optimal parameters of the above factors were established during mechanical application of a biological product to the treated seeds: temperature of the working compound is 20 to 25 ºС, the pressure in the biopreparation delivery system is 0.4 MPa, the optimal type of spray nozzle is experimental, adapted for working with biopreparations.

In recent years, many researchers have paid more attention to the substantiation and determination of the range of optimal (rational) parameters, ensuring a reduction in energy, labor and time, and the effect of mechanical treatment on the soil structure. The article presents the rationale and determination of the design parameters of the rotary subsoil loosener of the combined plough for flat ploughing. Rotational working element is made in the form of a screw cone mounted on a bearing, with the possibility of frictional rotational movement around its own axis from the reaction of the soil, and which is a multiple-thread screw. Oscillatory-rotational movement, which occurs in the process of introducing the ripper-subsoiler into the soil, is due to the uneven resistance of the soil. An analytical study was conducted from the point of view of the impact of soil-cultivating workers on the soil, depending on their design parameters. Analytical dependences of the subsoil loosener were obtained, which allowed substantiating the choice of its design parameters, in particular, the central angle β at the top of the cone, the width of the grip, the distance L between the plough bottoms and the resistant subsoil loosener, and the length of the soil splitting. Central angle at the cone apex β depends on the depth at which loosening occurs, the extension length of the cone apex from the tine and the rear cutting angle of the subsoil loosener.Minimal acceptable distance from the subsoil loosener's tine to the combined tillage machine's bottom depends on the depth of loosening, rear cutting angle, cone apex angle β and the physical-mechanical properties of the soil. These dependences determine the possibility of a stable rotational workflow, which is reduced to a constructive implementation after the calculation of its basic parameters. The obtained analytical dependences and some prerequisites can be used both in the study and in the design of such rotary working bodies.

Intensification of work processes of agricultural machinery is a part of important national economic problems of increase of agricultural production. One way to increase intensity is to reduce grain loss when working with combine harvesters on slopes of fields. In the lateral pitch of the harvester there is redistribution of the grain heap on the screen width and cleaning sieves. The diagram of linear distribution density of the grain heap on the screen width and cleaning sieves is transformed from a uniform type of rectangle to irregular: the type of triangle, trapeze without a shift or with a shift in the direction of the pitch. We have large losses of grain, because of the uneven linear distribution density of the grain heap on the screen width and sieves. The article offers various methods and devices, which have certain advantages and disadvantages, to reduce grain loss. One of the promising directions to reduce grain loss is the dynamic method, which uses a specific device as a set of hinged-lever units. However, one of the major drawbacks of these devices is the equality of oscillation frequency of the longitudinal and lateral pitch. The adopted working hypothesis and studies of the process kinematics and dynamics will define the main structural and technological parameters of the cam mechanism to align the linear distribution density of the grain heap on the screen width and sieves.

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Global climatic changes have a negative impact on the development of all sectors of the economy, including agriculture. However, the very production of agricultural products is one of the most important sources of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere. Taking into account the need to reduce the “carbon footprint” in food production, a special place is occupied by the analysis of the volume of greenhouse gas emissions and the development of measures for their sequestration in agriculture. One of the main directions for reducing emissions and immobilizing greenhouse gases is the development of special techniques for their sequestration in the soil, including those used in agriculture. Adaptation of existing farming systems for this task will significantly reduce the “carbon footprint” from agricultural production, including animal husbandry. The development of carbon farming allows not only to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also to significantly increase the level of soil fertility, primarily by increasing the content of organic matter in them. As a result, it becomes possible, along with the production of crop production, to produce “carbon units” that are sold on local and international markets. The paper analyzes possible greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and the potential for their sequestration in agricultural soils. The role of various elements of the farming system in solving the problem of reducing the “carbon footprint” is considered and ways of developing carbon farming in the Republic of Tatarstan are proposed