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50 years of tillage tools celebrated by Pottinger

50 years of tillage tools celebrated by Pottinger

Agriland07-05-2025

The agricultural machinery giant Pottinger started off life with Franz Pottinger in 1871 when he built a forage cutting machine.
From then onwards, grassland equipment became the staple of the company for over another century.
It was in 1975 that Pottinger acquired Bayerische Pflugfabrik, or Bavarian Plough Factory in Landsberg, a town situated in South West Bavaria, 40 miles west of Munich.
Aerial view of the Landsberg factory purchased 50 years ago
The plough factory is one of the oldest manufacturers of soil preparation implements in Germany and, with this acquisition, Pottinger acquired 85 years of experience along with the expertise to develop high-quality arable farming machinery.
Since then, Pottinger has launched numerous new ranges of machinery, including the new Servo generation of trend-setting ploughs launched in 1981, the built-to-last Lion power harrows in 1991, and the Synkro linkage-mounted stubble cultivator.
Bernberg
A further acquisition was the purchasing of the Rabe seed drill plant in Bernburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, in 2001, marking Pottinger's entry into the crop establishment market, and expanding its tillage portfolio to include mechanical, pneumatic and mulch seed drills.
Another investment of €4.5 million was made by Pottinger in 2021, as it bought out the mechanical crop care division of CFS of Switzerland.
The Pottinger Rotocare is more often used to break the crust of continental fields than for weed control
This brought in the expertise to develop and market mechanical crop care machines such as rotary hoes, row crop cultivators, and light tine harrows,, which were subsequently added to the product portfolio.
In 2022, Pottinger took over the Italian MaterMacc company, which is known for its expertise in precision planting technology, mechanical and pneumatic seed drills, crop care machines, and other original equipment manufacturers components.
Anniversary website from Pottinger
Pottinger consider 2025 as a major anniversary year that will feature numerous activities, retrospectives, and special anniversary offers on tillage farming equipment, crop care machines, grassland implements, and digital agricultural technology.
The company has launched a specially created anniversary website which takes the visitor through the developmental history of Pottinger's arable side, with notes, reviews and comments upon the various machines that it has developed over the past half century.

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