Acres of Records
| | The People Drivers, technicians and personnel: the faces behind the records. The Technology Tractors and ploughs: behind the scenes of the manufacturers. Results All the ploughing records of the past 10 years, from 100 ha to 250 ha in 24 hours.1993 Edgar Heil, a farmer from southern Germany, is the first to establish a record of more than 100 ha in the discipline of 24-hour ploughing. 1995 Case IH and Lemken beat the record byploughing 127 ha. 1998 French surprise: By ploughing 180 ha in 24hours Maurice Donval is rewarded with anentry into the Guinness Book of Records. 2000 Make room fort the Quadtrac: Case IH andthe Grégoire-Besson company teams breakthrough the 200 ha limit. 2002 Formula 1 in the field. Massey-Ferguson andGrégoire-Besson squaring the circle: 251 ha in24 hours !!! 2003 Rapid Race 24h: Väderstad, the Swedish culti-vation specialist, enters the circuit for record drilling. |
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