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SILBO is a Polish producer of flexible packaging for food industry. SILBO has been on the market forover 20 years, has a global reach and a unique specialization: environmentally friendly packaging. "Friendly to nature" - what does…
Flexible packaging sustainability is a hot agenda topic, and with rapidly advancing technology the options are starting to grow. That said, there is still a sustainability collision point of want vs. reality for brand owners and consumers.…
Wasse Mechanisatie from Hijken (Dr) has become an importer for the Benelux on behalf of the Danish machine builder MRS Plant Technology, which produces machines for potato cultivation. The Opti Weeder and the Crown Crusher enable mechanical weed…
The Row-FiX Space builds on the success of the concept with backfilling and mechanical weed control, only with a free passage eighteen centimeters higher than the current Row-Fix
Inagro is setting up two mobile washes for spraying equipment in the last weeks of the year. Farmers can clean their sprayers there and the residues are also processed free of charge. The car washes are part of…
Your fields may be covered in snow right now, but we all know that a potato grower’s work never truly ends. Like it or not, planting season will be upon us soon, and you’ll be out in…
Arable farm Mesken from Appelscha is focusing on capacity with a Dezeure TransMax, so that significant growth can be achieved in five years. The high-loader, driven on three axles, with a technical loading capacity of thirty tons, must…
Allan Equipment has taken a new spin on the potato harvester by making an electric model. When Trent Cousins and Daniel van Schalkwyk bought Allan Equipment in 2013, they knew they needed to update the manufacturer’s potato…
Drones can help potato growers quickly detect alternaria. This was stated by Ruben van de Vijver of the Institute for Agricultural, Fisheries and Food Research (ILVO) during the Belgian potato fair Interpom. “Sensors on the drones help to…
It would seem that the iron wheels in tractors are a relic of the past ... Nothing could be further from the truth, in one of the Dutch farms this solution improves the tractor's tractive power when…
It was the closure of an existing John Deere dealership nearly 10 years ago that set Kenny Quaile on his present course of running a now thriving machinery dealership at Skerries in Dublin.
The world's first autonomous potato harvester, called the Harvey.One, is bright red, has a caterpillar undercarriage and drives completely independently with two employees on the sorting platform who operate the remote control silently over the Groningen countryside.
