Fasterholt Maskinfabrik is a market leading medium-sized European manufacturer of selfpropelled irrigation machines equipped with rainguns or booms including a maintenance division. Fasterholt currently employs a staff of around 60 people and has a turnover near to 10 mill. Euro per year. Fasterholt Maskinfabrik was founded in 1958, when Agner Thisgaard and Johannes Laursen established the factory, which at first was called Fasterholt Smith. From the very beginning the factory only offered machine repairs, but in 1960 the manufacture of agricultural machines started. In 1975 the factory developed the first irrigator, and it was from the beginning a great
success. A year after – in 1976 – the factory changed its name to Fasterholt Maskinfabrik A/S. Today the manufacture consists mainly of irrigators, but also of balewagons and combine header trailers. In 2003 we took over the production of irrigators from Bording, which meant that Fasterholt Maskinfabrik became the leading manufacturer of irrigators in Scandinavia. Until now we have produced more than 7500 irrigators.
The company has a constant need to develop and improve it's products to be a market leader in technology. The latter includes smart technologies and reliable ICT systems for precision and variable rate irrigation. The high quality hardware that is produced needs to be Integrated with systems that in a time-saving way can calculate the right amount of water to apply on a given site in the field, as it is commonly realised that too little water leads to yield loss and inefficient uptake of nitrogen, which is subsequently leached or too much water leads to nitrogen leaching and subsequent yield losses. While current scheduling programs may be able to calculate a good average for a field, they do not realize that both of the above situations may occur in one field at the same time due spatial variablity in soil water holding capacity However, an equally important reason is that irrigation water supplied by a raingun is often deflected by wind, giving rise to gradients in soil water content in the irrigation season. It 's therefore important to develop systems and machines, which can take this variability into account and correct and apply the right amount at the intended place.
Fasterholt Maskinfabrik A/S
Fasterholt Maskinfabrik is a market leading medium-sized European manufacturer of selfpropelled irrigation machines equipped with rainguns or booms including a maintenance division. Fasterholt currently employs a staff of around 60 people and has a turnover near to 10 mill. Euro per year. Fasterholt Maskinfabrik was founded in 1958, when Agner Thisgaard and Johannes Laursen established the factory, which at first was called Fasterholt Smith. From the very beginning the factory only offered machine repairs, but in 1960 the manufacture of agricultural machines started. In 1975 the factory developed the first irrigator, and it was from the beginning a great
success. A year after – in 1976 – the factory changed its name to Fasterholt Maskinfabrik A/S. Today the manufacture consists mainly of irrigators, but also of balewagons and combine header trailers. In 2003 we took over the production of irrigators from Bording, which meant that Fasterholt Maskinfabrik became the leading manufacturer of irrigators in Scandinavia. Until now we have produced more than 7500 irrigators.
The company has a constant need to develop and improve it's products to be a market leader in technology. The latter includes smart technologies and reliable ICT systems for precision and variable rate irrigation. The high quality hardware that is produced needs to be Integrated with systems that in a time-saving way can calculate the right amount of water to apply on a given site in the field, as it is commonly realised that too little water leads to yield loss and inefficient uptake of nitrogen, which is subsequently leached or too much water leads to nitrogen leaching and subsequent yield losses. While current scheduling programs may be able to calculate a good average for a field, they do not realize that both of the above situations may occur in one field at the same time due spatial variablity in soil water holding capacity However, an equally important reason is that irrigation water supplied by a raingun is often deflected by wind, giving rise to gradients in soil water content in the irrigation season. It 's therefore important to develop systems and machines, which can take this variability into account and correct and apply the right amount at the intended place.