With roughly 100 machines on the books and a fulltime staff of 17, Schoemaker Landtechnik is one of the largest contractor’s in the Lower Saxony region in north-west Germany. Located just a couple of miles from the Dutch border, main activities include slurry application, grass and maize silage, combine harvesting, straw baling, and potato harvesting (see machine fleet).
Operating within a 25-30km radius of Itterbeck village, although they are occasionally asked to pop across the border, most of their customers are German farms. The country’s slurry spreading season runs from the beginning of February to the start of November. The volume of slurry work depends on the season. Spilt 50:50 between grassland and maize (pre-and post-drilling), it is all applied by three machines. The AT5104 LNMS (Liquid Nutrient Management System) and a pair of 20m³ Wienhoff trailed tankers with 15m Bomech Trac-Pack trailing shoe applicators.
Self-propelled experience
New AT machines now leave the Dutch assembly
