Planting Potatoes | Fendt 1050 + 8 row Grimme GL 860 Compacta | ROPAGRI SPRL Belgium

In this video we visited the Wallonia region of Belgium, know for its excellent soil for growing potatoes and thus housing some really big potato growing farms.
For example this impressive planting combination belongs to arable farm and contacting company ROPAGRI of Berloz. There new 500 hp Fendt 1050 vario pulls a 8 row Grimme GL 860 potato planter witch cultivate, plants, adding liquid fertilizer and rigged in one pass.

One of the nicest planting rigs i have spotted.

Merci to Steve and Edouard Roppr for letting me film there operation!

Thanks for watching!

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[mihaidinu]

Super combinatie, Fendt un adevarat monstru!

[geertvanmaldegem]

Blij dat u weer terug bent met nieuwe videos! Ik kijk er altijd met plezier naar. Ga zo door!

[jo-han]

Sometimes for noobs like me this could use a bit more narration / text-blocks on what is what and where it is for :) But just watching it 5 times in a row I think I've figured it all out, but the issue is of course whether I figured it out correctly. :)
For example at 4:00 they already plan the lines where later the tractor will drive if additional spraying is needed. Which could be to fend off various diseases like mites/insects/fungi/viruses or even just used to spray extra water during dry periods. A sprayers is a much wider setup then this setup so needs way less paths to drive then the current setup. Right? :)
There is so much on auto that this gear basically drives itselves, the human is just there for "just in case".

[FaPlaatsman]

Zeer mooie combinatie. Een van de mooiste combinaties ooit gezien voor het aardappels planten.

[AgriculturebyHans]

Prachtige video Martijn. Het blijft een machtig gezicht zo'n poot combinatie!

[surface]

The people giving thumbs down are jealous of your top notch videos.

[provenxreaperx]

nice to watch while we wait for the spring to start in Norway

[dimduk]

My favorite part is the way you show how things work, the dyker is ingenious.

[Agriculturespotter]

Wat een schitterende combinatie! Prachtige video Martijn!

[bennylegend]

Awesome...I play farming simulator 19...I don't like planting and harvesting potatoes...but in real life it looks great...

[joaobalhe]

do they need watering? or it rains alot? here in portugal it needs constant watering for potatoes to survive

[Techpower]

Look at that beautiful soil...incredible.

[dtoften]

do they come back and plant next to edge of farmland?

[nasearhassan]

Great videos but could you lengthen the the clips? they are 3 to 4 seconds long and I just don't have time to fill my eyes with what's in the frame! Perhaps 8 to 10 seconds would be better

[henrymcconnell]

Thumbs up for Steve and Edouard 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[agrisavoie]

This is the master of potato seeding with big grimme equipement. Good video another.