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Wolfgang Nürnberger, managing director of the Fachagentur Bodenbearbeitung – Saat – Pflanzenschutz GmbH, reports on the activities to support small farmers in Cuba

Traditionally, at the end of the year the HORSCH company holds a staff meeting together with an end-of-year celebration for all employees. On the occasion of such a staff meeting Traugott Horsch informed about HORSCH’s social commitment which is carried out by the HORSCH Foundation. I was...

A report of the first Russian Titan

The large farm Solyanoje in the south west of Sibiria is situated approx. 110 kilometers south of Omsk, the capital of the region. One year ago the first HORSCH auger waggon sold in Russia was put into use at this farm.

GVS new HORSCH sales partner in Switzerland

Farming in Switzerland - one thinks of cows on alpine pastures, but also of high subsidies and producer prices. However, with an increasing opening towards the world market the conditions in Switzerland have become “more normal“.

Horsch has partnered with Leeb, the German manufacturer of trailed and self-propelled sprayers, to form a new company, Horsch Leeb Application Systems GmbH. The new business will be headed by Theodor Leeb, managing director of Leeb, and will draw on Horsch’s own plant protection department and the...

Horsch UK held their first Seminar at the Lincolnshire Show grounds EPIC Centre on the 7th March 2012. The topic was “The Future of Cultivation and Seeding Techniques in the UK”.

Over 250 customers and dealers attend the day to listen to some very good speakers and informative presentations. Stephen Burcham from Horsch UK welcomed everybody to the perfect venue for the day. He then introduced the first speaker of the day Michael Horsch. Michaels’ presentation was, as usual,...

Horsch, managing director of HORSCH France and head of the HORSCH marketing department talks about the topic „Women in the company”

In Cornelia Horsch’s opinion women and men complement each other perfectly with regard to their skills and abilities. Her professional career has always been in line with family and private life. She has always been fully supported by her husband.

Fast – precise – versatile

The new HORSCH Maestro was presented on the occasion of the Agritechnica 2011 and has been awarded with the prize Machine of the Year 2012. It excels due to its speed, presicion and versatility. The Maestro allows for sowing speeds up to 15 km/h while at the same time achieving extremely precise...

About 600 employees from all over Europe came to Amberger Congress Centre (ACC), located ca. 25 km away from Schwandorf.

These employees represented the HORSCH Industrietechnik from Ronneburg, the HORSCH LEEB Application Systems, the HORSCH France Sarl, the HORSCH UK Ltd and the HORSCH Maschinen GmbH with its locations in Schwandorf and Ronneburg and the sales representatives from Poland, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria,...

A new research and development center is in the construction at our headquarters in Schwandorf. We are preparing in this way for the challenges of the coming years.

Since a few weeks the excavators have occupied the farm Sitzenhof again. As the next part of a longer-term investment process, the new research and development center is being built. The aim is twofold: on the one hand, to provide sufficient capacity for future HR investments, and on the other hand,...

UK launch for two Horsch drills at LAMMA

Horsch will be using the popular LAMMA show to launch two new drill to UK customers. The Horsch MiniDrill and DuoDrill are design to extended the capabilities of Horsch’s existing cultivation equipment, making them suitable for both first time and existing customers. The MiniDrill can be fitted to...

2011 will no doubt be the most successful year in the history of the HORSCH Maschinen GmbH. The current sales figures show that the record sales of 180 million Euro from 2008 will even be exceeded and the forecasts for next year are positive too. Horsch has developed innovative, new machines to...

Tiger DT on heavy soils

The cultivation of maize gets more and more important, not only for silage use. The cultivation of grain maize is very interesting, especially for breaking-up the crop-orientated rotation on heavy soils. Strip tillage with a row spacing of 75 centimetres is a very interesting alternative for maize...