The main goal of this agreement is to produce a stubble chopper behind the header whose performance will speak for itself, showing its users to be an essential, relevant device in the management of field stubble. Another aim of this agreement is to determine the means by which the stubble chopper behind the header could be mass-produced.

During informal meetings, it became obvious to both C. Bertholle and B. de Valous that their main concern was how to deal with field stubble after harvest. These meetings gave them both the opportunity to confront each other’s ideas and compare each other’s solutions tried and tested by BSC K2X.

Then M. Horsch became deeply interested in the work carried out by the young company BSC 2Kx and the prototypes it produced, and offered to put the know-how of his own firm at the disposal of BSC 2Kx.

Picking up on the principles brought to the fore thanks to the BSC 2Kx prototypes; this new chopper has benefited from outstanding improvements such as the hydraulic folding which not only enables the transportation (of the machine) to be carried out more easily but in addition provides better soil monitoring.

The results of these primary field tests have been on the one hand a tremendous learning experience and on the other have enabled the business partners to define the features for a pilot production prototype tried and tested within two consecutive years during the harvests of 2006 and 2007.