Zern Buy In to British Company Garfords

[Western promise]

Zürn and Garford to cooperate!


The cutting platform and field research technology specialist Zürn Harvesting has acquired a majority stake in the English hoeing technology manufacturer Garford Farm Machinery Ltd. The German family-owned company is thus expanding its product range to include the growth market of mechanical weed control and future-oriented camera-assisted machine guidance with individual plant recognition.


"In the future, we want to jointly use our experience and resources in sales, production and development to enable Garford to take further growth steps with its extensive hoeing technology programme. The increasing resistance problems with herbicides will open up new opportunities for mechanical weed control," is how Managing Director Rolf Zürn of Zürn Harvesting sums up the company's cooperation.


Further information on the products and the Garford company can be found on the website www.garford.com.

 

[7610 super q]

Who ?

 

[Western promise]

Who ?

Zurn Harvesting www.zurn.co.uk

 

[Clive]

Zurn Harvesting www.zurn.co.uk

I'm looking for someone to help me develop a inter row mower for organic no-till wheat if they are looking for a potential new market ! ?

 

[Horn&corn]

I'm looking for someone to help me develop a inter row mower for organic no-till wheat if they are looking for a potential new market ! ?

Flail with some blades missing for the wheat rows. What could go wrong?!?!

 

[Horn&corn]

Flail with some blades missing for the wheat rows. What could go wrong?!?!

More difficult to work out how to rake up the residue and put it through the forage harvester to make into silage. Something attached to a hovercraft me thinks

 

[7610 super q]

Flail with some blades missing for the wheat rows. What could go wrong?!?!

Coupled with Garford's cameras though...... Patent applied for.

 

[Case856xl]

Aren’t zero owned by JD?

 

[Western promise]

Aren’t zero owned by JD?

No still family owned.

 

[PSQ]

I'm looking for someone to help me develop a inter row mower for organic no-till wheat if they are looking for a potential new market ! ?

Just make sure it’s painted red.
That way it won’t show up the stains from the hares, partridges, skylarks and other prime cuts of wildlife that your machine will leave behind

Please tell me you’re joking Clive...

 

[Scribus]

All part of the growing realisation that we may well have passed the peak of throwing chemicals at crops to sort out any problem.

 

[warksfarmer]

Just make sure it’s painted red.
That way it won’t show up the stains from the hares, partridges, skylarks and other prime cuts of wildlife that your machine will leave behind

Please tell me you’re joking Clive...

Organic is coming! Been saying it for a while but all UK farmers will be pushed/forced into producing organic produce. It’s what the electorate want.

 

[PSQ]

Organic is coming! Been saying it for a while but all UK farmers will be pushed/forced into producing organic produce. It’s what the electorate want.

The Co-op farms tried field scale hoeing in wheat in the 90’s, and abandoned it because “it was the most efficient way to take out every ground nesting bird on the farm”.
If ‘the electorate’ think this is progress, then they obviously know f**k all about ecology.
One reason why we have government ministers: someone who knows the difference between making the right decision, rather than the ‘popular’ decision.

 

[Scribus]

The Co-op farms tried field scale hoeing in wheat in the 90’s, and abandoned it because “it was the most efficient way to take out every ground nesting bird on the farm”.
If ‘the electorate’ think this is progress, then they obviously know fudge all about ecology.
One reason why we have government ministers: someone who knows the difference between making the right decision, rather than the ‘popular’ decision.

But by definition, in a democracy, the popular decision is the right decision, anything else is dictatorship.

That's the theory and one we should generally strive to maintain, yet there are grey areas and blurred lines. If there are issues with field scale hoeing then that needs to be brought out into the open, I've been keeping half an eye on the development and had not come across this problem at all. If somebody like the RSPCA got up and issued a statement about it then the popular decision may well swing the other way, but such lobby groups tend to resort to convoluted policy reviews and indecisive meetings when confronted with a conflict of interests in what they are campaigning for.

 

[Hesstondriver]

Organic is coming! Been saying it for a while but all UK farmers will be pushed/forced into producing organic produce. It’s what the electorate want.

It’s what the electorate think they want or what they have been told they want

 

[Scribus]

It’s what the electorate think they want or what they have been told they want

The electorate is not a single mass of uniform, and even uninformed, opinion, brexit has demonstrated that if nothing else. It's a question of debate and finding one's way through the quagmire that surrounds most issues. What, exactly, is organic farming anyway, and who is doing the telling, and why?

 

[Clive]

The Co-op farms tried field scale hoeing in wheat in the 90’s, and abandoned it because “it was the most efficient way to take out every ground nesting bird on the farm”.
If ‘the electorate’ think this is progress, then they obviously know fudge all about ecology.
One reason why we have government ministers: someone who knows the difference between making the right decision, rather than the ‘popular’ decision.

Popular option drives policy rightly or wrongly like it or not I’m afraid

 

[Clive]

Just make sure it’s painted red.
That way it won’t show up the stains from the hares, partridges, skylarks and other prime cuts of wildlife that your machine will leave behind

Please tell me you’re joking Clive...

I’m sure technology today could solve such issues pretty easy

 

[Scribus]

I’m sure technology today could solve such issues pretty easy

Ah now Clive, the great god Technology is not the all seeing, all knowing deity that many would pretend.

 

[Clive]

Ah now Clive, the great god Technology is not the all seeing, all knowing deity that many would pretend.

If we can put men on the moon I doubt mowing some clover without killing a hare is going to be too great a challenge really !