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In December, almost all 450 employees from all over Europe and Russia came together in the Culture and Congress Centre of Gera,Thuringia, (close to the HORSCH production site in Ronneburg) to attend the staff meeting and end of year celebration.

For the foreign employees the whole event was translated into three languages (English, French and Russian). On the occasion of the staff meeting the managing directors of the HORSCH company, Michael and Philipp Horsch along with Horst Keller, gave an outlook on the year 2011 and looked back on the...

01/20/2011 Read more

It is humming in the truest sense of the word in the HORSCH production halls at Gut Sitzenhof.

Gantry cranes lift large machinery parts through the air, a completed Maistro is linked to a tractor and taken outside through a roller door. Only the view from the first floor where the office of production manager Roland Schönleber is situated reveals the whole picture: The production hall that...

11/11/2010 Read more

Economic prize for medium-sized companies awarded to Horsch After having been nominated as one of the finalists in 2009, this weekend HORSCH Maschinen GmbH has been awarded with the most coveted German economic prize for medium-sized companies. On the occasion of a gala evening in Würzburg the award was given to all prize winners from the Federal States of...

09/28/2010 Read more

HORSCH offers a total of four models of the heavy cultivator Tiger. Three of them, Tiger LT, Tiger AS and Tiger MT, have been compared by the dlz agrarmagazin for the 12 / 2010 issue with regard to horse power requirement and tillage quality.

Here is a summary. When HORSCH first launched the heavy cultivator Tiger AS in 2002, it caused a little revolution. The cultivator was aggressively promoted as a replacement for the plough. The arguments of the manufacturer were a...

09/02/2010 Read more

On 28th of June 2010 Walter Horsch celebrated his 80th birthday.

Being one of the founding partners and long time managing directors of HORSCH Maschinen GmbH, he has left his mark on the company and played a major role in its growth and development to become one of the leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Walter Horsch’s original profession was a...

07/19/2010 Read more

Many farmers still consider HORSCH to be a manufacturer of agricultural machinery for large farms. But the technical solutions also fit for medium-sized working width – a fact that is well proven by the three point mounted seed drills introduced last year

For a long time HORSCH has been discussing launching a threepoint version of the well-proven trailed Pronto seed drill. 2009, On the occasion of the 25th company anniversary, the

07/12/2010 Read more

Farming 2000 hectares in central southern England, Chalke Valley Farmers are a joint venture farming company growing spring barley, oilseed rape and winter wheat in rotation.

06/05/2010 Read more

For modern farmers organic farming is not only a question of ideology but rather of know how. Fact is: when mineral fertiliser or plant protection products are off limits, the real farmer is needed.

Pierre and Kerstin Ramnick’s resettled farm is situated 20 kilometres west of Würzburg (Bavaria). The annual average temperature is 9° Celsius and the average rainfall is 660 millimetres per year. Sugarbeet cultivation is possible, but has been abandoned on the Ramnick farm because of the...

06/05/2010 Read more

On the occasion of the end-ofyear celebration 2009 long time employees have been honoured for their 25th (one employee) and 10th (6 employees) anniversary of employment. Kurt Glück, head of the marketing department, has already worked for Michael Horsch even before the HORSCH Maschinen GmbH was founded. The present for the passionate motorcyclist was a trip to Croatia including an Enduro tour on a special motocross route. Martin Heldmann (production department),...

01/20/2010 Read more

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Festive end of 2010 year celebration

Bearing responsibility

Another milestone in the history of the company

Three Tigers tested

Walter Horsch celebrated his 80th birthday

Express TD – Perfect placement of the grain

Chalke Valley Farmers

Organic farming and an individual Pronto

Honouring of the employees in 2009