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Exclusive partnership

WITH HARVEST EYE

GRIMME is pleased to announce an exclusive partnership with HarvestEye Ltd to deliver HarvestEye™ technology to the potato industry.

Root crop machinery specialists GRIMME is pleased to announce an exclusive partnership with Lincoln-based Agri-tech company HarvestEye Ltd to deliver HarvestEye™ technology to the potato industry.

HarvestEye™ is a UK patented technology that provides insight on size, count and crop variation on unwashed potatoes as they are harvested. The integrated data analytics shows precisely what is being lifted and from where in the field. Providing greater field level information than conventional sampling: this insight will help maximise marketable yield and reduce crop imbalance.

As a commercial product HarvestEye™ will be manufactured and supported by HarvestEye Ltd. The exclusive partnership arrangement enables Grimme to be the sole UK distributor for HarvestEye™ for both new and existing harvesters and farm graders.

Speaking at British Potato in 2019 Managing Director Vidyanath (Vee) Gururajan said:
‘’We are delighted to be working with such a long-standing and innovative brand as GRIMME to deliver our HarvestEye™ technology. We envision that potatoes are only the initial application for this technology and hope to develop across other crops and categories.
We are excited to provide this technology/insight for the potato supply chain and we are encouraged with the potential for other root crops.’’

Patrick Graf Grote, Managing Director at Grimme UK says:
‘’Innovation is what drives our industry and our Company. We believe HarvestEye™ will offer UK growers and packers a significant advantage by providing advanced, real time insights as the crop is harvested. Not to mention the longer-term agronomic value of the detailed data produced by the system. The fact that it can be retrofitted to new and used harvesters and graders makes HarvestEye™ the ideal product to complement our innovative machinery.”

For further information please visit https://www.harvesteye.com/.

Alternatively you can contact a GRIMME Retail Sales manager on the details below or email the team at sales@grimme.co.uk

Scotland:

Kenny Findlay – 07821 271622

Michael Wilson – 07824 428676

Yorkshire:

John Taylor - 07766 443470

Glynn Argent - 07946 295197

Lincolnshire:

David Wadsley - 07826 664969

Shrewsbury:

James Wilcox - 07552 285809