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TEDDERS "WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY"

Pöttinger means quality and reliability worldwide. The "What the Experts Say" section takes you on a tour to farming operations all over the world. Farmers report on their experience with Pöttinger agricultural technology.

Jack Kempenaar, Como, Texas
Jack Kempenaar is owner of Meadow Valley Dairy Farm with 3000 cows. He runs 2 Novacat 8600 ED, Eurohit 91 AZ, 2 Eurotop. “We immigrated from Holland long time ago, and when we needed a new mower combination, we knew the Pöttinger brand from Holland and knew the quality and thinking behind. The capacity and the work are very good, but in the dairy farming today the grass silage making is one of the points where we can easily increase the output! Better grass silage is worth gold – and this is possible with machines from Pöttinger.
We had already Fendt tractors (also from Europe) and the mower combinations that we have can run in reverse mode, and this is for us the perfect way to go! Even the Pöttinger's North America head office is in Canada they are OK on the service, and the parts we can also get in a fair time“. Jack Kempenaar Como, Texas

Andre Larocque Farms and Larocque Agri Services (Glen Robertson, Ontario, Canada)

We are not a very large operation; we believe in producing very high quality hay for resale as it brings a premium price, our customers count on us from year to year and they take our word for the hay’s quality we will ship to them; we cannot afford to betray that trust, and we will not. A hay tedder is a very important tool in our hay production as it allows us to cut, ted, bale and or wrap the crop within a few days of cutting it thus keeping the leaves and extra quality in the bale.

Tedding was always what used to slow us down; with the HIT 130 A tedder we can take four rows of our 13Ft (4-M) discbine at once; tedding is now keeping ahead of the rake, baler and wrapper. Our first choice is in making high quality dry hay; we wrap when we cannot control the weather and sell it as high quality wrapped silage hay.

Owner of a HIT 130 A tedder 13 Ft.!

Ferme Roger Grenier & Fils Inc. and Travaux Forfait R/T

Mr. Tommy Grenier, 790 Route 116 East, Ste-Christine, J0H 1HO, Quebec, Canada

We produce high quality hay for resale also do custom work in order to justify keeping good quality equipment operating well. We ted, rake and bale some 400 acres (165hectares) 3-to 4 cuts per year of alfalfa for resale plus some 500 acres (205hectares) 3-times a year for others; (custom work). We produce approximately 3000 large square bales 85% of them wrapped at low moisture (approx; 35% moisture) which makes excellent feed for milk production and is the preferred feed of goats and sheep producers.

We maintain a good clientele who count on us to sell them the best in forage and we make sure we do not disappoint them. Good equipment is very important in making quality hay; due to the high moisture in the soil in this part of Quebec a good performing tedder is a must followed by a good reliable and gentle hay rake; we ted while the crop is still very high in moisture this allows it to dry faster and we rake while it is still at approximately 50% moisture and under a heavy sun and some natural wind the drying cycle finishes in the windrow; this way we keep all the alfalfa leaves and we can produce alfalfa at 23-24% protein content and a very palatable fiber with the ruminants. We like the Pottinger quality and rely on our dealer to keep us running when we possibly could have a break down.

Owner of 1 x HIT 80 AZ tedder and 1 x TOP 801 A double rotary rake!