Krone Group Earnings Drop Despite Stable Farm Machinery Sales
While turnover was back slightly at €2.3 billion in 2024/2025 (previous year €2.4 billion), the German Krone Group saw earnings fall from €107 million to €40.1 million.
They have taken this novel design to develop a new butterfly rear mower unit, the EasyCut B1250 Fold, which offers a working width of up to 12.5m.
As with the Fold front-mounted unit, the outer two sections on at the exterior of the 4.47m wide, 10-disc bed configuration pivot to reduce the overall height to under 4m.
In addition, as part of the overall folding process, the rear mounted gearbox moves backwards hydraulically, creating more ground clearance for the 3.8t mower to be lowered on the tractor’s linkage.
The B1250 has been designed to work on increasingly popular 12 metre controlled traffic farming systems. The B1250 Fold, when partnered with a F400 front mower, offers 45cm of overlap between the front and rear mowers when the 60cm of side-shift on the left and right units is fully extended to achieve 12.5m. The B1250 Fold can also be used with a 3.6m front mower, offering a reduced 20cm overlap.
