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Technology Will Change Weed Control From Chemistry to Application.
Contact us for more information about crop.zone’s disruptive technology.
To be a great place to work, we need great people to work with us. Everything we do, every day, in more ways than one, helps to make a unique contribution to a healthy environment.
Join our Team to develop disruptive solutions for a world with cleaner agriculture.

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Our Fantastic Team.

With over two decades and 100 years combined experience in the industry our expertise is unparalleled.

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Why you should work with us

Our Purpose

Develop innovative technologies and farming practices that help farmers increase efficiency and reduce the amount of natural resources—water, land, and energy—necessary to meet the world’s food, fuel, and fiber needs.

Our Vision

Modern agriculture is driven by continuous improvements in digital tools and data, as well as collaborations among farmers and researchers across the public and private sectors.
Also will Weed Control change from Chemistry to Application.

Our Mission

Our mission is to improve the environmental quality of modern agriculture by partnering with area businesses, community leaders and farmers to work together to develop and build solutions for a cleaner and safer world to live and work for future generations.

Our Management-Team

Dirk Vandenhirtz

CEO

Serial AG-Tech entrepreneur.
A unique way to think out of the box and create new ideas, and at the same time establish a constructive environment that encourages highly effective cross-functional work.

Fabian Effey

CTO

passionate mechanical engineer | team lead development | certified machinery safety expert

Nils Gerber

CIO

professional IT-nerd | Software Team Lead|  data expert | “if it were easy everybody would do it.” | Business Intelligence Solutions

Matthias Eberius

CSO

technical and biological developmen| biology-expert | Head of field trials |  Application development| “if it were easy everybody would do it.” | Business Intelligence Solutions

advisory board

Crop.zone is pleased to announce the expansion of its Advisory Board. This Board helps shape and guide the strategy of crop.zone hybrid herbicide, working closely with the leadership team to capitalize on future growth opportunities.
more about Michiel De Jongh

Michiel holds an M.Sc. degree in lndustrial Engineering & Management Science from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

While he grew up in the Netherlands, Michiel spent the last 15 years living abroad in Spain, the US, Argentina, Korea, Ukraine and Canada, working for a leading Fortune-500 agriculture company. During that time, he held a variety of roles, from Human Resources to Sales and Operations, and for the last eight years was heading businesses for the last 10 years in an executive capacity.

Earlier in his career, Michiel worked in business, consulting and in an entrepreneurial role as co-founder of a business incubator.

Michiel is passionate about modern agriculture and the role we play as an industry in feeding a growing population in a sustainable and cost-effective manner, with innovative products, applications and services.

“I am very pleased to have been asked to join the Board of Advisors for crop.zone and support its strategic planning and execution in the marketplace.

crop.zone offers the next generation of hybrid herbicide and the team has the expertise and experience to make a big impact in this transforming market segment.”

Michiel De Jongh

Michiel De Jongh

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To be a great place to work, we need great people to work with us. Everything we do, every day, in more ways than one, helps to make a unique contribution to a healthy environment.
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crop.zone’s hybrid herbicide system ready to go onto the field.

We need to support farmers with sustainable solutions in agriculture!

This is where all the threads come together: From our headquarter, we manage the day-to-day business,develop the future of non-chemical farming and make all the fundamental strategic decisions.
The cropzone team is working hard with the brand new hybrid herbicide system – an application service that allows organic weed control, desiccation, and field preparation.
If you would like to learn more, please contact us.
The crop.zone process combines chemical and physical plant protection to create an effective way to kill weeds.
By pre-treating the plants with substances that are highly acceptable for agriculture plants are treated with a much high degree of efficiency and lower energy use.