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The farm management operations of seed potato grower Klaas Schenk in the province of North Holland are always ‘under construct ion’. Innovations are always ongoing, also when it comes to the grading and checking of his seed potatoes. In order to further automate these processes, he tested a new type of the Visar brand’s optical grader for a month. ‘It’s been more successful than I’d expected. I thought that there would have been more drawbacks’, was his positive experience.
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