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JUMBO picks up in California
Pöttinger goes USA
California is the state with the highest population of dairy cows and as a result has the largest milk production of any state in the USA. Starting in the Bakersfield area around 100 km north of Los Angeles on the route to San Francisco there is one large dairy farm after another. Dairy farms with between 5,000 and 10,000 cows, mainly kept out in the open, are a common sight here while your nose clearly detects the once so famous "smell of money". Agriculture has been through a bitter crisis in the last two years with extremely low milk prices, horrendous daily losses and incentive programs to get out of dairy farming. However, the wind has changed direction and the worst trough is over, with an upswing clearly detectable.
The World Ag Expo, the largest open-air show in the USA, which opened its gates on 08 – 10 February 2011, provided an excellent platform for Pöttinger. Together with the dealership "McCann & Sons" plus Same-Deutz Fahr North America, an exhibition stand was organised in Tulare almost 300 km north of Los Angeles. The JUMBO 8010 L as well as the NOVACAT X8 ED collector were among the highlights at the show. That's mainly because the loader wagon and mower combos are relatively unknown as harvest systems in these parts. Surprising, since the JUMBO is the ideal piece of kit for everyday forage duties and in California vegetation is available virtually all year round. That's why more and more customers want to profit from the convincing advantages of the loader wagon for whole-plant silage and hay production.
The NOVACAT X8 ED collector stands out by more than doubling the area covered per day. That means halving the diesel consumption per hectare compared to conventional mowing systems such as self-propelled windrowers and mowers with working widths between 4 and 5.5 metres (14’-18’). And that is quite apart from the optimization of personnel deployment. The unique, completely independent Collector conveyor belts provide the flexibility necessary for various applications such as grass forage harvesting, whole plant silage and hay production.
In addition to a lively public who showed great interest in our stand, we provided demonstrations and training with the powerful Pöttinger "double-pack" to round off an extremely successful week for a great start to the 2011 season. Take a look for yourself on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/poettingeramericas) at the tidy and speedy work delivered by the Pöttinger kit on the Californian plains. The wintered, slightly brown Lucerne has had a bit of a rough time with the low temperatures during the night - it is after all the beginning of February!
 The successful sales team: Jamie McCann, Brett Garcia (McCann & Sons), Roland Hauzinger (Pöttinger), Anders Hansen (Pöttinger US) |
 The Jumbo 8010 L just before leaving to its new home: 4 C's Farm, CA |
Created: 01.03.2011
