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XtraBlatt Issue 02-2018

  • Text
  • Krone
  • Machinery
  • Forage
  • Straw
  • Farmer
  • Contractor
  • Dairy
  • Bales
  • Agricultural
  • Cows

TITELTHEMA With its

TITELTHEMA With its 1,156 HP the new BiG X 1180 from Krone is currently the largest forage harvester worldwide. The machine’s official première featured a working demonstration and press conference attended by over 100 journalists from 26 countries – whereby one reporter from New Zealand did not let an almost 18,000 km journey prevent him from attending the event.

EDITORIAL DEAR READERS, Hot from the press lies before you the latest XtraBlatt in which we’ve again gathered a wide range of feature stories and reports. Title theme this issue is straw, a material achieving ever-greater importance as animal litter, feed and sustainable energy producer. For Krone, 2018 has turned out a very successful year: in our agricultural sector as well as our commercial vehicle one. For the first time in our firm’s history we’ve cleared the 2 billion € turnover hurdle, enabling us to anchor our equity capital ratio at almost 50 %. This is especially pleasing for me and my family because it creates a stable foundation upon which we can continue long-term as dependable, family-run business for you, as well as our some 5,000 workforce. With the future of our agricultural machinery business in mind, we are naturally very interested in the development of milk markets worldwide. Here too, prospects could be a lot worse. According to the IFCN Dairy Research Network, global milk requirement by 2030 will, driven by population expansion, have risen to around 23.4 m t/year, representing an annual growth of approx. 2.3 %. Notable hereby are the differences between the production increases in Europe and America, as well as the even greater deficits in East Europe and Africa. Thus, the milk processing industry in Germany and Europe faces the challenge of increasingly involving and establishing itself in the export markets. You, our valued readers, can therefore clearly see that globalisation will also affect your own businesses. However, I believe we can look on this phenomenon as a fantastic opportunity for all of us. One of the associated requirements to tackle daily, by us in Krone as well as your businesses, will be continual examination and optimisation of production procedures for quality and profitability, so that production is exactly what the market wants. For the Christmas festive season that now lies before us, I wish you and your families a restful and tranquil time as well as a good and, above all, a healthy 2019. Don’t forget to regularly check your own quality of life and to savour every single day of it. After all, time is the only thing in life that is not available on credit. With best greetings from Emsland Yours sincerely, Bernard Krone 3