Club of bologna proceedings

Lothar FISCHER
I would like to give you an answer, although I 
can only speak for John Deere in this case and 
not for the industry. For sure, there is no que-
stion that we need these tests. We don’t need all 
of them, we need certain specific tests - they are 
helpful. However our problem is not only the 
money, it’s also the timing, the time consumed. 
Because we have to stand in a line and wait for 
the test to be completed. And if the testing sta-
tions do specialise more than they are today, 
then the line will become longer. So what will 
happen, if the test stations believe that they can 
protect themselves in building up standards, and 
trying to keep the people busy by moving this 
one to station A and the other one to station B, 
is that the industry will go outside. Definitely. 
The big ones are international companies an-
yhow, and they can move anywhere. So I think 
also these organisations have to be more flexi-
ble, they have to cope with the situation on the 
market. We will find all this, but I have to say - 
and I say it frankly - we have good relations 
with the testing stations. No question about that. 
 

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Uri M. PEIPER 
Before you answer I would like to add another 
short comment on this problem. We have very 
often encountered the problem that testing of 
agricultural machines takes an agricultural 
season, at least. And that prolongs the test pro-
cedure even without queuing up for other tests 
or competing on the manpower and facilities in 
the testing stations. This relates a little bit to 
what Dr. Fischer said. Please comment on that 
too, from your experience.