My name is Reinhart Wurth and I am the CEO of the Pflanzenbaugenossenschaft Bernburg Nord and our head-quater is in Gerbitz.
We are a plant production company with 2800 hectares of cultivable land.
The main plant culture on our company is winter wheat, 1250 ha.
Winter barley on 300 hectares in this year.
Another very important plant culture in the last few years was rape, this year we grow it on 570 hectares.
150 to 170 ha durum wheat.
Due to the ecological priority areas we grow peas this year on 170 hectares.
The maize cultivation plays an important role for our company and we grow it on 370 hectares in this year.
On 100 hectares we produce silage maize and on the rest of the land we produce grain maize which we harvest with the harvester and dry in our own grain drying plant.
Hello, my name is Thomas Thalmann and I am the production manager in the company as a part of this position I am responsible for the usage of the crop protection sprayer.
Since 1997 we use Agrifac sprayers. In the beginning we had two trailed sprayers with air assistance.
We know that Agrifac is producing powerful sprayers and so we did not want to change the manufacturer.
On the Agritechnica two years ago we saw the new self-propelled sprayer Condor Endurance with a capacity of 8000 liters and we were very interested in it.
We went to the Netherlands and visited the factory.
We saw that it is a solid production and the employees know what they do.
The engineers, who developed the technique also know what they work on and how it is used on a field.
We had a lot of discussions due to the fact that this will be a very big investment for our company but at the end of the day we can say that this self-propelled sprayer replaces two trailed ones and makes the work in as good or maybe better quality than the pulled sprayers.
The sprayer was delivered in March, now we are in June and we already sprayed 8000 hectares without complications.
Since 1997 we work with air assistance.
On my own I am a big fan of this technique.
The droplet size is adjustable independently from the amount of water used.
This means you can react on all circumstances.
You can start with a very small droplet size in the early morning and spray from dew wet plants without the danger that the spray coating rolls down.
We can use big and heavy droplets if we have to spray the stem base or if we have to reach the lower leafs.
This means we can react on every situation in the field and this is in my opinion a huge advantage.
This advantage justifies the higher price for that machine.
My name is Karsten Gerbig and I am the technical manager in our company and so I am responsible for technical issues.
With the Agrifac sprayer we had very less problems until now and it was working properly and reliable.
Our sprayer is manned by two drivers. One of them is transporting water to the field while the other is driving the sprayer.
This has the advantage the refilling is going much faster then. Also you need a huge amount of pesticides to fill a 8000 liters capacity sprayer and to reduce the time which is needed to fill the machine everybody is working together and so this process is much more effective.
