Exhibitor Listing
Garford Farm Machinery
Garford Farm Machinery was established in 1986. The Partnership at that time consisted of Norman Garford, his 3 sons Michael, Robert & Philip and Ted Chamberlain. Over the years ownership of the Company has changed, both Norman Garford and Ted Chamberlain retired from the Partnership in 2009 with Ted sadly passing away in December, 2011.
Prior to establishing Garford Farm Machinery Norman and his sons were all farming, but were always keen to improve and adapt machinery to suit their needs. In the 1980’s , following initial work by the NIAE (National Institute of Agricultural Engineering), the Garford’s designed and developed a Skew Bar topper to retrofit to different models of sugar beet harvester. The Skew Bar topper was designed in such a way that it will remove the leaves from the top of the sugar beet without actually taking the top off the sugar beet itself, thus enabling the farmers to collect a higher tonnage from their crop. The Skew Bar Topper was demonstrated at the 1985 British sugar beet demonstration and was met with great enthusiasm. Garford Farm Machinery was formed and Skew Bar Topper Kits were successfully taken to the market in 1986.
GeJo Grading Services B.V.
GeJo Grading Services is the technical and creative brain behind Smart Grader. Specialist and pioneer when it comes to optical grading.
From a lack in the sector, the development of an optical grading machine for rootstocks and fruit trees was started on its own initiative. Investigations and test phases go back to 2000. In 2018, GeJo Grading Services took over the development and production of the Smart Grader for potatoes. An in-house innovation that emerged from this is the compact Smart Grader Reader, which analyzes 10-kg samples in just 20 seconds.
