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By leveraging green-on-green spot spraying, Gareth has achieved remarkable reductions in herbicide usage, ranging from 5% to 22% compared to conventional methods.

"Now the first year, I already notice that we have 3% extra yield because of the Condor WideTrack. And with Agrifac Band spraying, we save about 60% in resources. "

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

MRF Contracting of South East Kent took delivery of their six-year old pre-owned Agrifac Condor IV back in 2021, replacing a trailed machine.

J Porter & Sons of Navenby, Lincolnshire, took delivery of their brand new Agrifac Condor V just after harvest in 2021, which replaces their seven-year-old Agrifac Condor III.

C S Backhouse in Yorkshire purchased a 7-year-old Premium Proven Agrifac Condor II in 2019 with 7000 hours on the clock, fully refurbished to their exact spec requirements.

R & J Thompson & Son in Goole, East Yorkshire took delivery of their Premium Proven 2013-build Agrifac Condor III last year, which arrived to farm with 7,600 hours on the clock.

Heard Farming of East Leicestershire took delivery of their second Agrifac sprayer that will be put to work on 3800 acres of arable crop, spraying 800 to 850 hours per year.

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.