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The Lindsay Zimmatics do their job running around in circles
“We always have something new,” said Frederik Nel of Lindsay at the NAMPO Show. “The first electric-driven Zimmatic centre pivot irrigator was built 50 years ago in Lindsay, a hamlet in Nebraska, USA. To conceive it demanded creative thinking and overcoming unheard of challenges, and in the many countries[...]
Impossible = possible with Zimmatic centre pivot irrigation
Halfsus, One-fifty, Groot Olie, Klein Olie, Tampan, Stefaans, Wiekie, Megan, Westine and even more. Every Zimmatic centre pivot irrigation machine in the farming enterprise of Roland van Tonder’s Koedoeskop undertaking – Allied Group – has been baptised. Every name tells a unique story. Halfsus lies almost on the perimeter[...]
40-year old Zimmatic still going strong
More than value for money – that is what a Zimmatic pivot offers the farmer; not only because of its efficiency, but also because of its durability. In October 1978, Guillaume de Swardt, maize and wheat farmer from Taaiboschpoort close to Petrusville in South Africa, bought the second Zimmatic[...]
Pivot irrigation technology: Reach every square metre with a Zimmatic Lateral
On this round earth of ours we prefer to keep our agricultural fields rectangular. It is simply much easier to measure and to fully utilise square fields. For irrigation farmers, a rectangular irrigation system is very practical, but a pivot runs in a circle. The solution is a lateral[...]
Wen weiveld met Zimmatic
Tien hektaar meer onder besproeiing en 200 melkkoeie meer op die plaas. Dit is die verskil wat die Zimmatic-spilpunte op die Fabers van Kookhuis se plaas gemaak het. Kobus en sy seun, Neels, melk tans so 400 Jerseykoeie en wil dit graag opstoot na 600. “Die spilpunte maak uitbreiding[...]