by Paul Rose | Jun 11, 2014 | Ag Leader, International Perspectives
International Perspectives: Ag Leader visits South Africa! I have recently returned from my annual trip to South Africa, which as some of you now know is one of my favourite places to visit!The annual NAMPO Harvest Day was held again in May and was bigger and better...
by Paul Rose | Dec 26, 2013 | Ag Leader, Guidance & Steering, International Perspectives
Anyone for Lettuce? This week I had the privilege of visiting Mr. Frans Nouws in the Netherlands. Mr. Nouws is a lettuce grower who is now farming around 200ha, entirely for lettuce production. However, it was not always done on this scale. He started in partnership...
by Paul Rose | Jul 11, 2013 | Ag Leader, International Perspectives
International Perspectives: Ag Leader Carries out ISO Testing During the first 2 weeks of June, we hosted two of our test engineers from the testing department in Ames. Bob Heston and Joe Holoubek started their trip at the EMEA office in the Netherlands where our own...
by Paul Rose | Apr 9, 2013 | International Perspectives
International Perspectives: Ag Leader in South Africa Back in the middle of February, I took my annual trip down to South Africa to meet our distributor Nel Precision Farming. Mac has been working with Ag Leader for several years already but it was only in 2011 that...
by Paul Rose | Mar 19, 2013 | International Perspectives
International Perspective: OptRx® Proves Itself in a Tough UK Season Last week, I had the opportunity to catch up with some of our UK users of OptRx and see how they are getting along. Last year was a particularly tough year for a lot of UK farmers. It rained most of...