Industrial Insights

They Picked the Same Stones Every Year for 20 Years. Then They Stopped. For decades, European farmers on stony ground have relied on a familiar annual ritual: after ploughing, drive the rock picker or rock rake across the field, collect the stones that have surfaced,...

Building a Potato Operation? Start With the Right Equipment in the Right Order. Starting a mechanized potato operation — or upgrading from manual production to full mechanization — requires a sequence of equipment investments that build on each other. Buy the...

Building Roads That Cost the Earth Less — Literally Conventional road construction is an extractive process. Aggregate is quarried from natural rock deposits — blasting, crushing, and screening millions of tonnes of stone that are then trucked to the road site,...

You Are Probably Buying 20-40% More Fertilizer Than Your Crop Can Use Fertilizer is the largest input cost on most arable farms after seed — and it is also the input where the most money is wasted. The waste does not come from buying the wrong product or applying the...

You Spent the Entire Season Growing These Potatoes. Do Not Lose Them in the Last 48 Hours. Harvest is where a potato crop is either captured or lost. The tubers are in the ground, fully grown, ready to sell — and the only thing between the field and the buyer is the...

A Simple Idea Is Transforming Dairy Housing Around the World The dairy industry has housed cows the same way for decades: concrete cubicles (freestalls), rubber mats, steel divisions, and mechanical scraper systems that push slurry into collection tanks. This model...