Poettinger Ireland hosted a Grassland Show at Johann and Gaesa Hoff’s farm in Talbot Hall New Ross, Co Wexford. The show’s theme was Clean Forage. A working display of Poettinger grassland products was on display. Several hundred people visited the show over two days to view mowers, including the Novcat X8 collector. It was fitted to a Fendt 720, and worked at 10km per hour, averaging 12 acre per hour. The new Poettinger HIT 11.11 ten rotor-trailed tedder was next. Sean Fitzgerald, area sales manager, was keen to share that we see the future in grass silage harvesting here in Ireland. He explained, “Irish farmers live in the best grass-growing country in the world, but we make the worst grass silage and compensate with expensive rations,” he added, “We face more extremes, possibly longer winters, and storage of quality forage after these winters has never been more crucial.”
Thomas Reiter, head of Product Development, addressed an evening forum. He began by asking the question “How low can you mow?”. Irish farmers must adjust their thinking to this. How low can you mow, how clean can you ted and rake, grass condition, when are the best times to harvest, can we reduce costs? Poettinger Ireland believes that we can do this, and would love to give every farmer the chance to understand it.
Poetinger products are made to produce clean forage. Our mower range with a slim poettinger cutterbar has quick change blades, superior ground hugging capabilities, and superior floatation. New Ross’s Hit Tedder range of poettingers featured the Hit 10.11 with lift-matic Plus, which is a first in the market. The rotors are first positioned horizontally with a hydraulic cylinder, and then raised. This allows the tines to stay horizontally on the ground.
Sean says that our loader wagons are the world’s market leaders. This is because of everything: our loader wagon design, cam-steered pickups, Pendular hinged pickups, rotor design for smooth energy saving penetration in the crop, new Auto Cut sharpening, easy move pivoting knife banks and automatic loading. We want to help farmers and contractors increase their incomes.
Sean concluded by saying, “If you want to find out how great Poettinger products really are, just ask our customers.”