Innovation Award Presented on the First Day of the AgroTechniek Holland Trade Show: New Holland’s Intellisense™ Wins Bronzen Sikkel 2024
Innovation Award Presented on the First Day of the AgroTechniek Holland Trade Show: New Holland’s Intellisense™ Wins Bronzen Sikkel 2024 Bronzen Sikkel
The expert jury awarded the 2024 Bronzen Sikkel Innovation Award to NewHolland’s IntelliSense™ (booth V08). This new system delivers higher productivity and bale quality, saves fuel, and enhances operator comfort by automating key functions of the tractor and BigBaler baler combination.
By proactively automating tractor steering via a LiDAR sensor mounted at the front of the cab roof—based on the swath’s path— and by adjusting the combination’s speed to match the swath’s volume, this system reduces the driver’s workload, ensures the best bale quality, and increases productivity. The machine and sensor control the tractor instead of the driver in the tractor.”
The innovation award was presented on the first day of AgroTechniek Holland in Biddinghuizen, the largest agricultural event in the Netherlands. There, more than 200 manufacturers, importers, and dealers are launching numerous new products for farmers and contractors. A panel of industry experts The jury assessed the extent to which all innovations were groundbreaking and distinctive and selected the winner from among 11 nominees.
Second prize for Kverneland and Landkracht, and third prize for Kemp Machines
The expert jury awarded a shared second prize to the iXter B field sprayer with SKAi SpotSpray camera technology from Kverneland Group Benelux and the Rumex RXF-900 spot sprayer from Landkracht Agri BV. “Thistechnology from Kverneland (booth 6.01), featuring pulse nozzles from Raven Industries combined with weed detection from SKAi’s cameras, results in a SpotSprayer with a wide range of capabilities. The system works using cameras that identify weeds within a specific crop. As soon as they detect weeds, the appropriate spray nozzles above the crop are activated, ensuring that only the weeds are sprayed with herbicide.”
The Rumex RXF-900 from Landkracht Agri BV (booth 5.02) is a spot sprayer designed not only for grassland but also for field crops, featuring plant recognition via artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technology. It features a working width of 9 meters, a nozzle spacing of 42 mm, an electrically height-adjustable spray boom, 6 cameras for precise recognition, lighting for longer workdays, and support wheels with adjustable track width for working in raised-bed cultivation.”
The third prize goes to the FRH Film Roll Holder from Kemp Machines (booth 7.16): “Aholder for 1 or 2 rolls of 500-meter film to cover silage pits, so that the silage pit is covered with a single piece of plastic, which prevents heating, and allows you to cut off the length needed, resulting in fewer scraps of plastic to discard than with the usual 50-meter rolls,” according to expert jury members Gertjan Zevenbergen (AgriMedia/Landbouwmechanisatie), Gert Vreemann (CUMELA/Grondig), Hessel Doornbos (Agrio/Trekkerweb.nl), Martin Smits (Misset/TREKKER and Boerderij), and Job Hiddink (Nieuwe Oogst).
7 other nominees for Bronzen Sikkel 2024 Bronzen Sikkel
Blauhoff – Maxus All-in-one Battery (booth 4.10)
A versatile battery solution for agricultural and industrial energy storage and backup systems, for charging machinery and equipment, peak shaving to reduce peak demand and save costs, virtual load increase for the power connection, power backup during outages, and a comprehensive Energy Management System.
Evers Agro – Forest cultivator (booth 8.09)
This split cultivator has two rows of fixed tines, with the second row mounted in a multi-level frame and hydraulically adjustable to any height, making it possible to work at two different working depths and, depending on slippage or traction, to continuously raise the second row of tines via self-regulating ISOBUS control.
Kemp Machines – VGVD (booth 7.16)
This “Double Fresh Grass Distributor” ensures that, when feeding fresh grass to animals, the grass is separated in the middle of the feeding aisle between the left and right feed fences by two drums that rotate outward, separating the mounds of grass and directing them toward the feed fences on both sides. Using a control valve, it is also possible to rotate both drums in one direction when grass is being fed on one side.
Slootsmid Mesttechniek – Major Bemester ( booth 8.13)
This fertilizer spreader features three interconnected Slootsmid mini-exact distributors, ensuring an even pressure distribution across all outlets. Thanks to this precise distribution, even low application rates can be applied—a scenario that will become more common following the abolition of the derogation. With a working width of up to 9.4 m and 50 mm hoses, it has a high processing capacity.
Smits – E-Lampo (booth 6.21)
This new Euromachine is a ready-to-use, 100% electric plug-and-play pump solution for clean water in a weatherproof, super-quiet enclosure. It is the ideal solution for electric irrigation or increasing water pressure, and serves as an alternative to a permanently installed pump system.
Vlaming Groep BV – Saphir Grindstar® (as of April 8)
A tillage machine with two rows of passively driven rotors, it processes soil and crop residues to a working depth of 0 to 2 cm thanks to a parallelogram-guided suspension system; it is easy to use, cost-effective due to reduced herbicide use, and highly efficient thanks to high travel speeds of 12–18 km/h.
Weevers Nieuwstad – Electric Irrigation (Booth 7.03)
Fully electric irrigation using an electric boat pump in surface water or a submersible pump to deliver water under pressure to an irrigation system. Thanks to the electric/hydraulic drive, there is little to no pressure loss within the machine.
AgroTechniek Holland 2024
At AgroTechniek Holland , all market leaders and leading brands are out in full force with exhibits and demonstrations. This year, ATH will be open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Wednesday, September 11, through Saturday, September 14, at the Walibi event grounds in Biddinghuizen, where GroenTechniek Holland will also be taking place. For a list of all brands, submitted innovations, and admission tickets, visit www.agrotechniekholland.nl