NOMINEE MANFRED HUR ▶▶▶TZ


‘It’s the tools that help produce quality’


Manfred Hurtz is one of the farmers nominated for the 10 most innovative arable farmers worldwide. He started in precision farming with a camera-fi tted prototype sprayer to apply three diff erent types of herbicides.


M 8 ▶ FUTURE FARMING | 24 May 2019 BY RENÉ KOERHUIS


anfred Hurtz’ farm in located in Nideggen, Germany, close to the nature park Eifel in the Mid-west of the country. In German terms,


Mr Hurtz’ 100ha farm is relatively small. He also does contract work on about 100 hectares and combines about 350 hectares of cereals and oil seed rape. Despite growing up on a family farm, he started off his career as a tool maker and studied from


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