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Average reading time: 4 minutes
“In March, the farmer harnesses the horses“: These lines of an old German nursery rhyme are well known. But this year, they cannot be put into practice because of the weather. Throughout Europe, farmers have to face these two challenges

04/21/2023 Read more

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You already know how to create an optimum seedbed where the roots “feel at ease” and, thus, to lay the base for an optimum root development and nutrient supply. But not only the roots have to be comfortable. While sowing, the seed, too, has special requirements on the embedding and thus the seedBED.

03/28/2023 Read more

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Whisky - The "water of life" and for Simon a passion for life!
Simon is head of internal sales at HORSCH and for a few years he has been indulging a special passion: He collects whiskys!
But how was Simon inspired to do this?

03/24/2023 Read more

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"You get people with emotions. So we have to get more emotional."
When I heard this statement, question marks started buzzing through my head. My name is Sophia and I am a trainee at HORSCH. I listened attentively to an interview with Toni Grauvogl, head of training at HORSCH. But when I heard this sentence, my head started to rattle: What does he mean? What is he trying to tell us?

02/16/2023 Read more

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While driving the cultivator my superior asked me: “Why is the seedbed actually called seedbed?” I thought for a moment, and I realised that you could illustrate it with your own bed.

02/10/2023 Read more

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Simone, the power woman from Brazil – her way to HORSCH 
A Brazilian from Curitiba: If she doesn’t like it anymore, she changes her life. Wants to advance. Wants to carve a successful career. But she never loses sight of one thing: her family!

01/17/2023 Read more

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Special paths of life with and among HORSCH

From painter to photographer… Germany, near Gera. This is where we meet our colleague from the paint shop at our Ronneburg site: Axel, 34 years old and working for HORSCH since 2012. Today we would like to tell you his story. How did he come to know HORSCH and work there? How did he turn into a part-time photographer? And all that thanks to HORSCH...

09/20/2022 Read more

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Never is not quite right. But first, let's start from the beginning. Before we talk about sowing time, let's answer the question: Why grow catch crops?

09/16/2022 Read more

Average reading time: 5 minutes
In the last blog article, we discussed straw distribution before stubble cultivation. What did we learn? That it is particularly important to take a look behind the combine. The keywords are: Homogeneous straw distribution and Good chaff quality

07/28/2022 Read more

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Seedbed preparation in spring 2023 – but how?

Seedbed preparation – for an optimum embedding of the seed

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Why do plants root deeply? – A question of optimum seedbed preparation?

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It is never too late for catch crops?!

Straw distribution after stubble cultivation (II)