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Onions sown, potato planting nearly finished

Transport of pig slurry by lorry

Spreading slurry over ploughed land using our crawler and umbilical injector from the contractor

The tractor cab from our contractor during potato planting. Our John Deere in the background

As a test we planted and ridged some of our potatoes in a single pass this year

The planter combination from contractor Breure who plants our potatoes

We are planting using a belt planter. Ridges are formed while planting

Filling the hopper using a telehandler and Joppe chitting sacks/trays

The spring of 2011 will be remembered as a very early one. Already on March the 15th we drilled our yellow onions. The red varieties followed on March the 28th. We will be planting 3 hectares of seed onions in trays as a trial this year. Nearly all of our potatoes have been planted as well. Only 7 hectares remain. This year we will be growing the variety's Triplo, Agria, Agila and Nicola. Some fields have been planted and ridged in one pass as a test. We now only have to harrow some and ridge them up again with our Ecordiger. We are currently very busy burning off weeds in the onions. These are just emerging. We have also purchased various new machines this year: A Grimme reception hopper, rotary broom, box turner and a Trefler weed harrow. The carrots and celeriac from season 2011 are now sold out. The onions and potatoes are nearly as well.