The film tells about the remuneration of labor in a collective contract on the example of two unarmed mechanized teams in the "Protasovsky" state farm in the Maloarkhangelsk district, Oryol region. Filmed by order of the USSR Gosagroprom. Part 1 The central estate of the "Protasovsky" state farm. Local residents stand near the building of the state farm administration. On the roof of the building there is an inscription: "1960". On the facade of the building there is a sign with the inscription: "RSFSR agro-industrial complex of the Oryol region of the Maloarkhangelsk district, the state farm Protasovsky." Rural houses on the banks of an ice-bound river. A man rides a motorcycle with a sidecar along a rural street. A turkey with turkey poults, a calf on the shore of a reservoir. Ducks in the pond. Procurement of feed for the state farm herd. The machine operators work on tractors with mowers while chopping grass and loading onto a truck. Maize harvesting for silage. State farm workers load the cut grass onto a truck. Spring harrowing and fertilization in a potato field: four tractors working. A shepherd on a horse goes round the state farm herd of cows. Milkmaids on the farm lay out the feed in the troughs. Team member of the no-order mechanized unit No. 1 Ivan Timofeevich Kosichkin and members of his unit - machine operators Alexander Fedorovich Ananiev and Leonid Efimovich Kononov at work in a potato field. Team member of the non-orderly mechanized unit No. 2 Sergey Viktorovich Lebedev and members of his unit - machine operators Vladimir Stepanovich Gorokhov, Anatoly Ivanovich Sidorov, Viktor Aleksandrovich Salov check equipment. The director of the state farm "Protasovsky" Nikolai Alekseevich Revyakin speaks on the phone in his office, visits the machine operators working in the field. The chief economist of the state farm Galina Andrianovna Savrilova talks with the director in the office. State farm accounting staff at work. Harrow repair at the machine-tractor station. The worker is welding. Agricultural units, combines "Niva" are on a snow-covered area. Animation illustrating the procedure for calculating the remuneration of machine operators. Accounting machine operators receive checkbooks. View of Ivan Timofeevich Kosichkin's checkbook. Checkbook issuance statement. Mechanics in accounting are discussing the size of the labor force participation rate (KTU). Journal of accounting of indicators of labor participation. Link machine operators I.T. Kosichkin are discussing KTU. Zvenievy S.V. Lebedev and I.T. Kosichkin write checks. Machine operators receive checks when working in a foreign field. Part 2 Village houses on the river bank. Harvesting feed. The machine operators work on tractors with mowers while chopping grass and loading onto a truck. Maize harvesting for silage. Cabbage in a vegetable garden near a rural house. A pile of harvested fodder beets in the field. A potato harvester is working in the field. Students from Oryol are working on harvesting potatoes. Students pick up potatoes by the combine, carry buckets of potatoes to the truck. Loading potatoes into a freight car. Movers unload a truck with potatoes, carry bags to the warehouse. Inter-row processing of potato seedlings and spraying in the field. Unloading the cut grass in the yard. A bulldozer levels out the green mass on the site. A tractor with a potato digger drives through the field. Combine "Niva", tractor are on the field. State farm director N.A. Revyakin talks with machine operators, in the office he talks about the importance of collective contracting (sinhr.). S.V. Lebedev driving a tractor. Kosichkin is repairing a tractor. Schoolchildren are playing in the school yard. Meeting of the management of the state farm "Protasovsky" in the office of director N.A. Revyakin; among those present there are machine operators working according to the brigade contract method. The lecturer tells the workers of the state farm about the introduction of a new wage system during the lesson in economic studies (sync.)