Visitors to this year’s British Potato Show are invited by GRIMME UK’s sales team to find out about the company’s latest innovations in machinery.

GRIMME UK’s on-stand sales team members will be joined by their partners, the Haith Group’s engineers, as part of the two companies’ strategic working agreement.

In this year’s edition of the British Potato Show, GRIMME UK’s stand center stage will be dominated by VARITRON 470, a four-row self-propelled harvester. This machinery achieves a high degree of maneuverability thanks to its pivoting rear axle, which can be fitted with tracks or wheels when ordered. The popular terra trac system gives extreme soil protection in all conditions with very little soil compaction.

GRIMME has incorporated several automatic features, including Speedtronic and Visual Protect, which can be conveniently controlled from the premium cabin, increasing harvesting efficiency.

The company will also be introducing people to its latest CleanLoader, which is designed to reduce the amount of clod and haulm found in the harvested crop.

Fully road legal, the CleanLoader doesn’t require an external power source to operate, thanks to an onboard 46KW, four-cylinder diesel engine. This efficient unit provides exceptional fuel economy, using as little as 50 liters of fuel within 12 hours, and can reach 120 tonnes per hour.

Integral to the CleanLoader is GRIMME’s RH24-60 self-emptying receiving hopper, with a generous volume of 21 cubic meters. The hopper automatically feeds onto twin coil units to ensure even and constant crop flow through the machine. The first set of coils separates debris from the soil, with the second coil unit delivering additional separation or pre-grading of the crop depending upon conditions.

Once inspected, the crop is transferred from a picking table onto the 120cm wide cart elevator with high capacity pockets for fast loading times.

A further benefit of the CleanLoader is that its elevator has a 25 degree (or 6.5 meters) pivot range, removing the need to constantly reposition trailers during filling, and with an impressive seven-meter overloading length, it is possible to leave the trailer out of the field completely, discharging over any small hedges and ditches.

As well as the VARITRON and CleanLoader, GRIMME will also be focusing on spring machinery, promoting its range of tilers, de-stoners, and planters during British Potato.

Away from machinery, GRIMME will have a working demonstration of HarvestEyeTM on-stand. Developed in partnership with B-Hive, HarvestEyeTM is a unique system that effectively samples the crop from the whole field at harvest. The insights allow growers to market their crops more profitably and underpins better planning by looking at the whole field instead of conventional sampling.

“We are very excited to be returning to Harrogate in November! It will be great to finally see the potato industry come together in mass and person,” says Tom Goose, sales manager at GRIMME UK. “British Potato is one of the highlights of the year for us and we are extremely excited to return to the UK’s number one potato event. In the light of recent events, we’re determined to make sure all guests receive a very warm welcome and make the event one that people remember for a very long time!”

Once every two years, the whole of the potato industry comes together for a unique ‘seed to shopping trolley’ event. BP2021 is a trade show and talks for all those growing and supplying to the potato sector. Staged in Harrogate alongside the National Potato Industry Awards, BP2021 will take place on 24-25 November.