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We’re excited to be exhibiting at Potatoes in Practice at the James Hutton Inst. Please meet us at Stand Q DD25LJ from 12th August on.

where we’ll be demonstrating the NUCROP hybrid electric crop protection machine

Potatoes in Practice, the UK’s largest field event for potatoes and a highlight of the season for the sector bringing together variety demonstrations, research and trade exhibits in one place, is set to return on 12 August 2021 to Balruddery Farm (Angus, Dundee DD2 5LJ) with a focus on new varieties and a slightly different format to allow for social distancing, with the support of event partners James Hutton Institute, Agrii UK and SRUC.

All details can be found here:

Dirk Vandenhirtz
crop.zone GmbH:

“Our technology offers significant advantages for sustainable agriculture. Residue-free desiccation, without legal waiting periods for chemical degradation maximize user flexibility and consumer acceptance while minimizing risks for food industry and trade.”

www.agrarzeitung.de (German only)

Or:

on Spotify (German only)

crop.zone, manufacturer of the Hybrid herbicide Electrical Plant Control System, has significantly strengthened its capital base for entering series production. Existing shareholders (including Nufarm Limited) and new financial investors (Demeter Investment Managers, Madaus Capital Partners) have increased the equity base of the Aachen-based company by almost USD 11 million.

The innovative crop.zone system offers an electrophysical alternative to herbicides such as glyphosate or diquat. This is because instead of chemically controlling plants, it works with electrical energy that is applied to plants via applicators behind a tractor. These then dry up and the field becomes usable again for new planting without further plowing by the farmer. A highly productive and efficient solution, the technology is also used in harvest and seedbed preparation. In Europe, crop.zone has been successful in the “field” in the desiccation of potatoes for some time. The USD 11 million investment is aimed at opening up new international markets and developing additional agronomic areas of application for the crop.zone system.

says CEO Dirk Vandenhirtz, highlighting soil conservation and the goals of reducing herbicide use that agriculture faces today. Goals that crop.zone hopes to address with its renewed investment. An investment that will also be reflected in the company’s WoManpower. Because the know-how of the people at crop.zone is the key to further development and the start of series production of the system, which is already in use in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Existing crop.zone shareholders who co-invested in the current funding round include Nufarm Limited, a leading developer and manufacturer of crop protection solutions and seed technologies. The company, with more than 2,500 employees, serves key agricultural markets in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. Nufarm Regional General Manager EuMEA, Hildo Brilleman, says Nufarm is proud to strengthen its existing partnership with crop.zone as the company continues to expand its growing portfolio of sustainable solutions for farmers:

The investment by Demeter Investment Managers, a major European provider of venture capital and private equity for environmental change, demonstrates the importance of the crop.zone system’s unique selling point as the alternative to pesticides in agriculture. Demeter CEO Cyrille Cabaret says:

Through its subsidiary RWTH Innovation, RWTH is also supporting crop.zone in the current round of funding. crop.zone was already supported at launch through participation in the RWTH Innovation Sprint, a pre-seed funding mechanism of RWTH Innovation supported by the Excellence Start-up Center.NRW initiative of the NRW Ministry of Economics. The Innovation Sprint helped crop.zone to build a prototype and thus validate the business case of their technology.