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    First trailed merger

    Feb 12, 2021 5 minutes
    Steven Vale

    Sister company Oxbo, in the Ploeger Oxbo group, has enjoyed a leading share of the North American trailed lucerne (alfalfa) merger market for more than 25 years. Ploeger is looking to repeat the success on this side of the Atlantic with a European-built machine that has no trouble in alfalfa, but is designed for grass. When the Dutch company previewed the self-propelled CM4240 merger at Agritechnica 2019, it said not everyone would have enough material to merge for such a machine and that it would develop a trailed version. Called the CM2240, and designed to compete with trailed mergers from Kuhn and ROC, the plan was to have the first one in the fields for the start of the 2020 grass season. In the end, it was not delivered to Dutch contractor Antoon Biemans until mid-September.

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