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"We’re getting 80% more done per hour with this unit than before!"

Koninklijke Maatschappij de Wilhelminapolder (KMWP) is the biggest agricultural company in the Netherlands north of the city of Goes, Zeeland. Recently they bought a Condor Endurance for their 1400 hectare arable farm, where they grow potatoes, onions, sugar beet, cereals and alfalfa

Kim Graham, Operations Manager of Geeraning Pastoral in Bonnie Rock WA, a cropping operation passionately owned by John and Joan with son Darren and his family.

This is partly due to the difference in soil types, but also the island climate is distinctly different from most parts of Australia, especially in the amount of rainfall.

Mini carrots, purple carrots, crème de lite carrots, standard orange carrots, early carrots and storage carrots… At Brocker Gruppe in Willich, everything is about carrots!

The aim of this part of my short trip through Germany and Poland is a visit the next morning to the state owned company Pomorska Mazurska Hodowla Ziemniaka on the outskirts of the northern town of Słupsk.

In Wiesenau we visit the “Bauerngesellschaft Ziltendorfer Niederung GbR”, a family owned farm with a remarkable history.

I am on my way to the company Prochema Modra, a private organisation owned by Vladimír Sodoma. The company is active in various fields.

As a company we are specialized in agricultural services with a main focus of crop protection. We are offering our customers a wide range of services which are, crop protection(spraying), planting.

Contract spraying most farmers would say is a highly specialised occupation that takes many years to perfect.

My name is Horst Brammer and I am the operations manager of Kartoffelhof Nüssau GmbH, a part of the Heilmann AG. Here in Schleswig-Holstein we grow on 370 hectares table potatoes.

My name is Ed Snyder from Snyder crop services. We do crop protection application, fertilizer application and we do some sales in Liquid and dry fertilizer and some consulting in crop scouting.

The beginning of 2020 marked a huge milestone for Agrifac UK as the first ever Agrifac machine was successfully delivered into Ireland, to South East Ireland based company Furlong Grain.

After considerable research on Agrifac machines over the years, the main aim for the family run farm was to find a sprayer which they could totally rely on.

PDM Produce were the first company in the UK with the new 8000 litre Agrifac Endurance II machine, complete with a 54 metre boom.

The reason for buying this sprayer was that it has an ability to raise the suspension up to 2 meters and to also give the ability to change the track width in the range of 205 to 280 cm while driving.

Growing a range of crops such as wheat, barley, oil seed rape, vining peas, beans and potatoes, the arable operations spans 4000 hectares over 14 sites across East Yorkshire.

My name is James Cheney I work for W.B. Daw & Son in Staffordshire, England. We grow potatoes wheat oilseed rape and beans...